Apologia ministry
news & updates
Please remember to check this page if Apologia Report delivery seems to have been delayed again in the future.
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Jun 1 '23: We've moved back to MailChimp after finding a work-around for our previous frustrations there and have sent out two issues of AR so far — resulting in cautious optimism. Notice the hesitancy? MailChimp has made disrupting changes in the brief time we've returned to such a degree that we put no confidence in their digital flesh. We'll see how things progress.
May 18 '23: MailerLite is showing how Lite it is again. Logging in to our account yields a blank page. No options work ... including support links. Stay tuned for AR 28:17 (which is ready to send you, but ....)
Jan 7 '23: We're about to switch hosts for apologia.org and it has been a long time coming. (I don't suppose you've noticed that the site has gone 9 years without much change, if any?) Well, don't expect much to improve. This update will hopefully give us a "secure socket cert" and help free us from tons of spam responses each week to our AR subscription form. (Current record is about 4,000 of them between issues.)
Nov 20 '22: Most of the transition adjustments have been made. I believe AR is being delivered using MailerLite consistently now and nobody has been left out in the process. Regrettably, the MailChimp ease of subscription is missing with MailerLite, as well as their ease of viewing our recent issues. The latter can be resolved with the home page of this site. However, new subscriptions involve going thru the apologia.org site and/or digging for http://www.apologia.org/htm/subscribe.htm and filling out a form. (Another option is to simply contact me using apologia.ed with gmail and asking to subscribe.)
Oct 30 '22: I've used MailerLite to send out AR 27:37. (If you haven't seen it, as a regular subscriber, it could be sitting in your spam folder due to the change in mail server origin.)
Oct 28 '22: MailChimp down. AR 27:37 can not be sent.
Oct 25 '22: MailChimp is back to consistent operation. Efforts to use MailerLite as an alternative have stalled out due to setup conflicts ... for now.
Oct 14 '22: It is working again. No explanation for what went wrong.
Oct 12 '22: MailChimp is having issues. We can log in, but that is all. All interactive options are frozen. No help buttons work. No navigation works. We can't even log off. We're waiting for a fix.
This means that we can not send out Apologia Report until this is resolved. (We will add new issues to the ARchive as usual. Use the latest issue link at the top of our "Home" page, here, to see for yourself.)
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Apologia Report had used the Google URL shortener, goo.gl, since 2012. However, on May 30, 2018, Google discontinued the app, while promising that all their links would continue to function.
Update, Oct 2 '20: After fits and starts since then, it now appears that Google has replaced at least some of their failed links with the original longer address inserted into the appropriate the text files of the AR-chive. That is much better than them being left dead as had been the case for quite a while -- and we're thankful for their attention to the fix (which must have been massive).
In addition to this, I've just discovered Google, OR an undisclosed friend with access to the site, has gone out of their way to help alert me to non-goo.gl links that have gone dead (a perennial headache) and even point out missing data! As for the latter, while working on another maintenance issue, I came across an "item summary missing" alert (quite legitimate BTW, on an AR issue's page). Very helpful!
Update, Sep 19 '20: Some links have been replaced by Google, but not the earlier links (beginning with AR 20:3, Jan 21 '15).