Goodbye from Corona Labs

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#1

Got this email today.   This only means I would be unsub’d from emails, right?   

Hi there,

It looks like you haven’t opened our emails for quite a while, so we’re going to remove you from our subscriber list. If you’d like to continue receiving emails from Corona Labs, please reply to this email. 

 

If you’re still interested in mobile app and game development, we encourage you to check out Corona SDK Starter, our 100% free cross-platform framework for mobile development. Our community of 250,000+ developers and designers around the globe use Corona SDK to build chart-topping apps, games and eBooks 10x faster! To date, more than 27,000 Corona-powered apps and games have been published for iOS, Android, NOOK and Kindle Fire.

Once you’re ready to jump back into mobile development, we hope you’ll consider Corona SDK. Please let us know if you have any questions!

All the best,

The Corona Labs Team

#2

I got the same mail, don’t know why :slight_smile:

#3

I received the same one – makes me think someone pushed the wrong button. In which case a “sorry, we screwed up” email sent afterwards would probably have been a good idea.

 Jay

#4

Looking at the CL Twitter it seems they’re having a clean up of the mailing list - so probably worth a reply if you want to remain on the mailing list.

#5

I have three accounts here – I received that email for each account.

And I know it was crap because I read every Corona Labs newsletter they send out.

I can think of two things that might be happening…

* CL is switching list managers, in which case they should just say that and I’ll re-up on the new one.

* Their current list manager can’t tell when I read the emails so it’s providing CL with bad data and sending that email out to everyone just pisses some of us off. A lot.

Don’t send me an email saying I’m not reading the newsletter and so you’re taking me off the list unless I reply. What a crock.

The days of being able to tell who is reading your emails and who isn’t, is FREAKING GONE. I don’t load images on hardly any of my emails, and that’s typically how open rates are tracked. No images loading, no tracking. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t read the email.

The unsubscribe link at the bottom of the newsletter? That’s how you know if someone doesn’t want to read your newsletter anymore. They use it to unsubscribe.

 Jay

(Can you tell this rubs me the wrong way?)

#6

Hey Jay - sorry this rubbed you the wrong way. We sent this email to people that, according to Mailchimp, had not opened our email in many months and whose emails were more than 2 years old.

Yes, we are aware that many people dont load images and therefore an email provider thinks they are not reading. We thought the combination of both criteria would mostly catch people who have tuned out (or who have changed email addresses, etc. etc.). The goal was not to make anyone mad, but to stop sending out emails to people that could consider it spam - spring cleaning if you will.

Inevitably, we will get some people that have indeed been reading. So, our apologies. We do appreciate you reading our emails. If you just do a quick reply to the message we won’t unsubscribe you.

David

#7

Yeah, but I won’t reply to the email because I shouldn’t have to. So apparently I’ll stop getting the newsletter even though I still want it. 

Think about this: If MailChimp was wrong about all three of my CL accounts, what does that say about how wrong they are with all the others? Plus, I *know* I have loaded images on at least one of the newsletters in the past month.

Is it so hard to reply to an email? Of course not, but it’s the principle of the thing. 

I know, my one little data point won’t mean anything, and I run the risk of looking like a moron to people who might otherwise buy my stuff, but people who think something is wrong – and don’t speak up – are doing a disservice to everyone. So I’m speaking up. :slight_smile:

Jay

#8

I got the same mail, don’t know why :slight_smile:

#9

I received the same one – makes me think someone pushed the wrong button. In which case a “sorry, we screwed up” email sent afterwards would probably have been a good idea.

 Jay

#10

Looking at the CL Twitter it seems they’re having a clean up of the mailing list - so probably worth a reply if you want to remain on the mailing list.

#11

I have three accounts here – I received that email for each account.

And I know it was crap because I read every Corona Labs newsletter they send out.

I can think of two things that might be happening…

* CL is switching list managers, in which case they should just say that and I’ll re-up on the new one.

* Their current list manager can’t tell when I read the emails so it’s providing CL with bad data and sending that email out to everyone just pisses some of us off. A lot.

Don’t send me an email saying I’m not reading the newsletter and so you’re taking me off the list unless I reply. What a crock.

The days of being able to tell who is reading your emails and who isn’t, is FREAKING GONE. I don’t load images on hardly any of my emails, and that’s typically how open rates are tracked. No images loading, no tracking. But that doesn’t mean I didn’t read the email.

The unsubscribe link at the bottom of the newsletter? That’s how you know if someone doesn’t want to read your newsletter anymore. They use it to unsubscribe.

 Jay

(Can you tell this rubs me the wrong way?)

#12

Hey Jay - sorry this rubbed you the wrong way. We sent this email to people that, according to Mailchimp, had not opened our email in many months and whose emails were more than 2 years old.

Yes, we are aware that many people dont load images and therefore an email provider thinks they are not reading. We thought the combination of both criteria would mostly catch people who have tuned out (or who have changed email addresses, etc. etc.). The goal was not to make anyone mad, but to stop sending out emails to people that could consider it spam - spring cleaning if you will.

Inevitably, we will get some people that have indeed been reading. So, our apologies. We do appreciate you reading our emails. If you just do a quick reply to the message we won’t unsubscribe you.

David

#13

Yeah, but I won’t reply to the email because I shouldn’t have to. So apparently I’ll stop getting the newsletter even though I still want it. 

Think about this: If MailChimp was wrong about all three of my CL accounts, what does that say about how wrong they are with all the others? Plus, I *know* I have loaded images on at least one of the newsletters in the past month.

Is it so hard to reply to an email? Of course not, but it’s the principle of the thing. 

I know, my one little data point won’t mean anything, and I run the risk of looking like a moron to people who might otherwise buy my stuff, but people who think something is wrong – and don’t speak up – are doing a disservice to everyone. So I’m speaking up. :slight_smile:

Jay