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6Am I the only one who always has problems with Meh Forum emails?
I get an email that someone replied to my comment, but when I click on any of the links contained in it… it always hangs on me. It appears Meh uses mandrillapp.com for their data collection/redirecting service.
— It happens in both my iPad and my Mac, so it can’t be a quirk or a local app/software issue.
— All other emails I receive that use data collection/redirecting service work completely fine.
It’s been like this for as long as I can remember, so I had (very lazily) assumed it was a known issue and was going to be fixed. But it’s been so long, now I think it’s just me…
Anyone else having similar issues?
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/giphy it’s just you
I had this problem for a few minutes after the whispers went live, but I took that opportunity to rotate a few dozen batteries in and out of the broiler. When I came back, Meh.com emails were working fine and my kitchen was full of thick, roiling fogbanks of cadmium-laced smoke.
@UncleVinny
Wow
@shahnm SOS ^^^ Call the cops, call the king, or even call Santa Claus (@UncleVinny could broil coal or something)… because this is blatant BATTERY ABUSE!!!
@Kidsandliz @shahnm So… Would the charge be “battery battery”?
@Kidsandliz @simssj Guilty as… charged. Er… throw him in the… um… cell.
@shahnm Good for five stars that one is!
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Don’t click links in email from people you don’t trust.
@medz Where’s your sense of adventure?!?
/giphy works for me
This has happened to me once or twice. More often it’s just slow to redirect, but not more than like a full second.
Mandrill is for transactional emails (which means basically anything that’s not a newsletter) and these days it’s a best practice in the industry to use a service for that instead of trying to run your own reliable email server. Yeah, links are tracked for analytics, but measuring everything is also a best practice.
That said, Mandrill is by Mailchimp and neither is my favorite.
Are you running any kind of ad blocker or anything else that could be routing requests for that domain to never never land?
I will occasionally have a second’s delay like a DNS query is slow to resolve but it almost always goes through.