2020 has definitely been a bad year for a lot of people, mostly due to the pandemic and the effects that it has had on the physical and mental health of people in areas where it is wreaking havoc.
However, for us at TinglyTube, 2020 was actually a pretty good year for us in so many ways, and we hope for some of you, that you can also say 2020 was good for you, in one way or another. Every year has its own share of good and bad, and some years just have more bad than good.
But before 2020 comes to a close tonight, we'd like to present our 2020 Year in Review, which is a collection of various platform statistics from this year, we hope that you find it interesting, and we can't wait to see those numbers grow even higher year-by-year.
Hey there, and welcome to our December 2020 Changelog!
We publish one of these notices/changelogs monthly so you know what has changed on TinglyTube over the last month, from features getting added to bugs being fixed, we'll list it all! But if you want to see these updates in realtime, you can check our profile wall as we sometimes post similar updates there, or check our Statuspage to see our current server status and any ongoing/past incidents, you can also follow our Twitter if you want, we're pretty active on there.
And now presenting our December 2020 Changelog!
Over the past 6-months since TinglyTube re-launched, there have been many instances where a user has signed up and wasn't able to receive emails from us due to them signing up using a school, ISP, or Hotmail email address, and here's why:
School Email Addresses:
Almost all elementary, middle school, and high school email addresses are configured to not accept emails from domains or IP addresses outside of the school network, this is done to prevent spam and other malicious emails from being sent to students. Some colleges will also block emails originating from off-campus domains or IP addresses.
ISP Email Addresses:
If you're using an email address issued/powered by your ISP (Internet Service Provider, such as Comcast or WOW!) you may not receive emails from us as ISP's are usually more aggressive than much larger service providers (like Google or Yahoo) about identifying and blocking emails they think are spam. Another reason why is since we, like many other small startups, don't have our own datacenters and servers, so we must instead rent our server from a server provider who does, and since most server providers reuse a pool of IP addresses, if someone before us had our IP address and was sending spam, and it resulted in our IP address being blocked, we would therefore be blocked as well if we weren't able to easily contact the corresponding service provider and get ourselves unblocked.
Hotmail Email Addresses:
Similar to how some ISP's may block our server IP address due to prior misuse, Hotmail does the same, although they aren't blocking us specifically, but block our entire server provider's network!
And that's all of the reasons why you shouldn't signup with your school, ISP, or Hotmail email address. If you've signed up with one of these types of email addresses, don't worry, just send us a private message (this is because we won't be able to communicate with you via email through our Support/Feedback form) here on TT and we'll change the email address on your account to one that can accept emails from us.
