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[denise]

People getting mail at Gmail are reporting email delays of about an hour. As far as I can figure out, it's because some of our recent changes to our network have wiped out our existing sending reputation with them and made us start building reputation again, and they're refusing all mail on first delivery and making us re-send it. (It's a common spam reduction technique, because spammers don't bother retrying if the first attempt fails.)

There isn't much we can do about it but wait it out until Gmail decides that we're legit senders again, but we'll poke at it and see if there's anything we can do to make the process go faster. (I doubt there will be, though; Gmail is persnickety.) In the meantime, to get comment notification email faster, you can switch your confirmed email to a different provider, or just refresh your on-DW inbox.

EDIT: And people are now letting me know that mail's delayed to other providers, too, which is probably follow-on effects from having to send everything to Gmail at least twice. There isn't a lot we can do about it; I'm sorry about the hassle, folks.

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Re: a friend at Google

[marahmarie]

or a "Oh huh, are they still around?"

That's actually what I'm often tempted to say about, you know, the other half of that equation. Another of my gut feelings is LJ has been picking up steam lately and good for them, as I feel (with the cross-posting abilities we have in place that I see a lot of fairly popular DW users taking advantage of each day) that it might actually help Dreamwidth to grow, in the long run.

I can't really speak to how SV's great teaming masses react when DW's name gets dropped...when I say my gut feeling is DW is at least well known, I'm referring more to the upper echelon of Valleyites, whose job it is to kind of stay well-informed (at least I would think so) not so much their dev circles (though I have mad respect for some of them and think they might have at least some knowledge of us, too).