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Finally, I made the transition. This has been pending since April when Google announced that they were winding up Feedburner's email subscription service for publishers.
I searched the web for options, and there are quite a few of them. Finally I chose follow.it as the alternative to Feedburner. I was also encouraged by this post of my blog pal Liz who too opted for follow.it.
By the way, follow.it is spelt with the first letter 'f' in lower case and not capitals.
follow.it has a simple user interface; and, there are links to good explainers for people like me who are transitioning to a new service to offer feed subscriptions to readers.
The first step in the transition process was to download the list of my email subscribers from Feedburner. Not quite unexpected, only 15 out of 370 email IDs looked genuine! The rest seemed to be bot-triggered spam.
The readers who had subscribed via Feedburner have now been moved to follow.it. If I have missed anyone, please do re-subscribe to the feed via follow.it.
follow.it has a few additional features that I didn't find on Feedburner. One of them is that readers can set filters, like specific tags or keywords or even go by popularity to customise their experience.
There are multiple ways in which the email subscriptions can be received, like single email, or multiple emails as and when new posts are published. There is an option to see these feeds on follow.it. One can also get the feeds on Telegram by linking it to follow.it.
Apparently, more features like Chrome extension, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, etc are in the pipeline.
These are all available in the free plan. The paid option opens up a few more features like detailed analytics of subscriptions.
This is the link to follow my blog. Or you have the widget on top of the right panel on this page.