Ember Times doubly curlies appear as-is on goodbits.com

[amyrlam]

Current Behavior

Syntax to convert {{ to appear correctly in emails, literally appears as {{ opening_double_curly() }} on https://the-emberjs-times.ongoodbits.com/2019/10/12/issue-119

Possible Solution

I have a support ticket open with Goodbits. Waiting to hear back from 11/2 reply from me. Was reported by @alexlafroscia. (To be honest, I never actually check the Goodbits site...am usually checking our blog and the emails themselves!)

Go to a different email provider. Don't know of any good alternatives yet.

[alexlafroscia]

For context, I noticed this because I prefer to subscribe to newsletters through RSS when possible to keep my email inbox clean! That’s the way they render in my RSS reader.

[amyrlam]

Ah that makes sense, thanks!

So I have an idea...I guess we need to put code snippets in Goodbits as images (manually), we could make them from carbon e.g. https://carbon.now.sh/wZJBek838rkZgUSHc3Pj cc @jessica-jordan

We can't fix the old ones in Goodbits but this would be cool going forward

[alexlafroscia]

That’s an interesting idea!

Any concern about the accessibility of code snippets vs. images of text?

[amyrlam]

Hm, good point.

I guess right now, code snippets with double curlies in the newsletter appear wrong if someone reads "Views in Browser" or through RSS.

I guess I'll try to explore some other providers? It would be a lot faster if we could copy the raw markdown as-is, right now we use https://github.com/ember-learn/ember-times-tools

[amyrlam]

Pinged Goodbits again to see if they have any ideas / workarounds.

Perhaps we can push people to read RSS on our own blog emberjs.com/blog instead.

But ideally, we would then want the "View in browser" link to link to emberjs.com/blog instead of Goodbits.

[amyrlam]

Pinged Goodbits again to see if any response

[amyrlam]

From email correspondence, Goodbits is exploring a code block option! Watch this space

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[amyrlam]

Pinning issue. Need to switch to new provider, maybe Mailchimp. If provider can take Markdown, would be 💯

[amyrlam]

I want to explore moving to Mailchimp one day, but will close this as a known issue for now, apologies

[amyrlam]

I don't think Goodbits will solve this.

I set up a basic Mailchimp. Need to check if there's any gotchas with moving the email list from one platform to another. Goal is to trial this, then move to Mailchimp.

[abhilashlr]

Sounds good @amyrlam 👍

[amyrlam]

New issue with new path forward: #734