Ethernotes: Andy, I saw myself in your Gmail account and I didn’t realize I was so huge…
Me: So, first off, the problem is with your font settings, not you. You are not bloated or oversized. Your content is fine. Admittedly, your font size is ridiculously large in Gmail. But it looks fine in Outlook and in my andorabrokaw.com mailbox.
Ethernotes: Okay… But why is that happening?
Me: I have no bloody clue, sweetie. I think it has something to do with MailerLite forcing me to set fonts, but setting everything to one listed as definitely working in Gmail didn’t solve the problem.
Ethernotes: Why do we have to set a font? Isn’t there, like, a default?
Me: Everywhere one can read an email is going to have a default presentation font. It’s probably set to something the account owner likes and finds easy to read. I’d love to just use that. A lot of marketing people want to be able to say exactly what the product looks like, which requires setting the font, but a) that’s not happening for me right now anyway and b) my priority as a person who frequently curses over too-small fonts being forced on me is to make things legible to all.
Ethernotes: I noticed the letters in my web version look way smaller than other things you look at…
Me: Yeah. Which is part of why I’m so flummoxed about the Gmail font. It looks like it’s showing everything as one of the header tags and I can’t fathom why. Meanwhile, the font as its supposed to look is frustratingly small for me.
Ethernotes: So what are we going to do about it?
Me: I’m going to look into different mailing list solutions, including possibly going self-hosted. In the meantime, I’m hoping everyone who got today’s summary of Second Month (including a brief discussion of why February is so frustratingly short) either had no issues or was okay with having to click the link at the top to see the email on the web.
Ethernotes: I see you made that link clickable!
Me: Yep!
Ethernotes: Question? If we move away from MailerLite, will the people currently signed up for me be abandoned?
Me: Absolutely not! I should be able to bulk port them to a new platform, but if I can’t, there are few enough of them at this point that I can easily enter them manually should I need to.
Etherary: Hey! I see you have some stuff in Ethernotes that wasn’t on me OR Bluesky OR Mastodon. Where else was it?
Me: Nowhere. Ethernotes gets some exclusives every month.
@andybwriting.bsky.social: But those pics of the critters would do well on me!
@andyb@writing.exchange: They’d be great toots too!
Me: Well, the picture of Talvi did do well on both of you. But the Novi and Ritter pics are new. Because I promised there would be things unique to the newsletter.
Shadow: Excuse me? You stopped two days of work from the end of me and ignored me ALL day.
Me: I know. I apologize. I will get this draft finished in the next few days. Promise!
