I wrote awhile back, to say that I had turned off the alert emails, for followers liking my posts. With 3,285 followers it was growing my 1,000 a day. I believe I had a backlog of 20,000 emails.
I have been reading a few each day, and am now down to 7,000. I was hoping to add it back in time, but I trust you understand that if I miss you, it not for trying.
I spend 6 – 8 hours a day checking the reader on WordPress, and going back over my past few posts, to make sure I don’t miss anyone.
I love you all, but it was too overwhelming.
I’m unable to read everyone and I’m 200 some deep only! However, I do also try to read comments and courtesy respond In kind. I’m off to a gold mine as the place to stay evaporated…. That sun! 😉 (Denver….mountains close… Mountain gold mine….
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I stopped all notifications for emails from WordPress. It’s impossible to keep up. So, I just respond when I visit WordPress.
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I tried to stop all notifications but it didn’t work! It is overwhelming and I go into WordPress to visit anyway. I hope I can get it to stop soon as I have the same issue about 20,0000 unread messages!
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I went to manage subscriptions and changed all of them to weekly. It took a while as I have over 700 bloggers I subscribe to.
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This gives me motivation to do the same, as it does get to be too much at times. I know who reads my blog, and also the ones I read, and can find them easily another way besides email. 🙂
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Definitely understands
It can be very time consuming
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Quite understandable Susie
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Yeah, I can’t keep up with it all. So, I just visit my WordPress Reader and respond through there.
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I read them all but then again I’m one of the “little people.” 😉
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It can be so overwhelming! There is never enough time it feels like sometimes.
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Can understand maam
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I spend time every day trying to cover every aspect of WordPress.
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I changed my ‘reader’ from the phone to my laptop, and keeping up better now.
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I try to clear some every day, but not easy. I can’t delete them, which is silly, because it would solve it. I have to be methodical.
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I have those on weekly, but these were followers that liked my posts, l put on hold.
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Sensible idea.
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6 – 8 hours a day.
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Hated doing it.
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That takes me several hours a day 😊
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Give it time, and it will take over 🤣
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I sure know that feeling.
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Thank you for your understanding.
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That’s a crazy amount of emails to have to go through! I struggle with the couple of hundred that I get so can completely understand why you’ve had to stop it.
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Probably be another couple of months before I clear them all.
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How did you get so many followers? Just starting out but I’m amazed when I hear this!
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Been a writer 27 years now. 3 and a half years on WordPress. It’s a fulltime job 😊
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Ohhhhh my! I came from xanga now a subset private community within WordPress where I tried out being a social wizard…. Oh my, I may fight my phone from helping me typo every word now but I just don’t get up and after all that effort anymore! It is fun though being driven to participate…. http://starmanjones.xanga.com/2012/09/26/247/#comments. This was my fifth site there. This is maybe pumpkiny enough to halloween some 😉
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Goodness. I fully understand
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It came up one word on each line, on my phone.
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I work on them every day.
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See how weighty I am with words? 😁. Anvils
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Will try on my laptop.
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(i was not very fussy vetting all of those vagueries when picking designs on that last site…oops it’s clunky)
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