Daily Text Emails Will Likely Stop

[Brother_Bliss]

Due to some in-house changes we are making at JWTalk Forums, the Daily Text being delivered to your email will probably cease. We've been providing this service since 2013 in a roundabout way using a service called FeedBurner, which reads the RSS feed for this forum and sends it's contents to those who have subscribed. To date, we have just 635 email subscribers, which is the same amount we've had since 2013. In other words, for over 5 years hardly anyone has joined the list.

 

And this actually makes perfect sense. With our Watchtower CD-Rom, JW Library App, and wol.jw.org - reading the days text straight from the source is easy to do, not to mention that many people ignore emails these days anyway with the popular rise of mobile notifications and messenger apps.

 

We WILL keep posting the Daily Text though. So if you have been reading it here at JWTalk, you don't have to worry. However, we are considering making the following changes: Instead of a dedicated Daily Text forum, we will have a Daily Text thread pinned in the Interchange of Encouragement & Worldwide Brotherhood forum, which is also visible to the public. By having the Daily Text as a topic pinned in a more popular forum, we hope to see more comments and participation from other members, perhaps even incorporating the somewhat popular 'summed up in 3 words' game. At the end of the year, we will unpin the topic and start a new topic for the year ahead.

We're working to keep JWTalk sensible and well-organized by creating new forums where needed, and eliminating dead forums that don't draw much interest. We believe the Daily Text is important and deserves more attention and participation than it has been getting, and we hope these changes will help do that.

Your brother,

 

- Bob

[Rozannnancarrow]

 ohh  bro Bob  bit sad to see this go  but I supose like  all things ..some are nessesery  I like the personal  text emails

Roz

[Lewis]

I have been reading the daily text through the email system since its inception. It is more convenient to have it in email for me since I use my email system 24/7 and I receive notification as soon as I received an email through my blackberry phone. If this service is to be discontinued, I will surely miss it.

 

 

[kejedo]

Current questions from readers makes me wonder about this. Maybe I didn't understand the complete thought expressed in our lit. 

[Lori]

I just go to wol.jw.org to read mine every morning.   From there I can go the midweek meeting and study.   Very handy.