Apparently turning off the newsletter email notifications in WordPress was actually pretty straightforward and easy to accomplish. I just missed a really simple on and off step required to make this change happen to suppress the email notifications. You just have to follow the following steps: 1) Jetpack, 2) settings, 3) newsletter, and then 4) disable the “Let visitors subscribe to this site and receive emails when you publish a post” setting. Making this change stopped the whole newsletter email thing I was worried about and I converted all the older posts within scope from private to public using the bulk update functionality. Right now we are sitting at 948 public posts and 1,446 private posts. Posts have been unlocked back until June 2017. That seems like a reasonable enough spot to just stop. Anything older than 2017 probably needs to be looked at again and edited for quality, continuity, and sometimes completeness.
Tonight I’m going to spend some time watching Monday Night Football on the over the air (OTA) broadcast. It’s nice to be able to just watch the game without having to subscribe to ESPN. Right now the subscription that I’m willing to pay for on a monthly basis is the Altitude+ application that allows me to have access to most of the Colorado Avalanche games. I still have an actual working FM radio upstairs that lets me listen to almost all of the games. Sometimes the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche games overlap creating a broadcasting conflict. That subscription so far this year has been totally worth it. I would prefer if all the local broadcasts happened over the air for sporting events where the stadium was publicly subsidized. That however is not really the way things are unfolding as the number of streaming platforms just keeps increasing. Even streaming the NFL games requires so many different subscription options. I’m not surprised that year over year ratings were down for the NFL as it’s getting harder and harder to find the games.
I was hoping for a competitive game tonight. That does not appear to be happening in the first half of the game.
Dr. Nels Lindahl
Broomfield, Colorado