original creator of generals.io here (late to the party)
really cool to see people still having fun with this game I made in college! I sold the game a few years back because I didn't have time to properly maintain it, and I'm glad the new owners have kept it running.
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Definitely, and I was doing that, but everytime a new spam variant (with gmail period trick) of an email gets subscribed that same email gets ANOTHER double-opt-in email from me. This is my guess as to why I was getting reported as spam so much - people would literally be getting spammed by me (unintentionally).
EDIT: forgot to mention I'm the author of this post
Author here. My wording could probably be better b/c it makes it sound like I'm blaming Sendy, but I'm not trying to complain here - I agree they should NOT be special-casing this kind of thing.
Author of the post here - Happy to answer any questions. I'll be editing the post with responses/updates from Sendy. Hopefully this convinces them to release a patch!
Hey, thanks for the feedback. Like some other people mentioned there was always that disclaimer at the bottom - I didn’t know about this FTC stuff some people are citing. Will look into it more and update appropriately!
It’s definitely much more manageable for a business, but as one person running a small hobby project, paying hundreds per month is nowhere near worth it. Mailchimp is probably (understandably) focusing on enterprise customers that can pay much more and for whom convenience is a bigger plus.
Understandable. I tried to make sure everything I mentioned could be easily verified by the reader - you should certainly do your own research and not take anyone’s word for it.
I wonder how many people got into coding because of Runescape like the author... I have almost the same origin story [1] and I know a lot of people who also do.