08 · Notifications of a new entry

Signing up for notifications is one click and a browser prompt. There is no form, no email address and no confirmation in an inbox — a reader leaves behind nothing they could later be addressed with somewhere else.

Delivery is tied to publication, not to deployment. An entry scheduled for Saturday morning sends its notification on Saturday morning, though it was uploaded on Wednesday. A periodic task checks whether anything has come out since its last run, and only then sends anything at all.

Consents are kept in the site's own database, along with the rest of its data. There is no external service here keeping a list of recipients and able to share it with someone — which matters more than it seems for sites written under a pen name.