Substack unintentionally despatched duplicate emails for a few of its newsletters

In particularly dangerous information for many who attempt to attain Inbox Zero, Substack had an issue at present that despatched out among the platform’s newsletters for a second time. Verge contributing editor Casey Newton noted it despatched out a second copy of the free version for his Platformer publication (which you’ll be able to subscribe to here), and a number of other of us have seen extra copies for among the emails we subscribe to in our inboxes.

Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie tells The Verge it was a “one-off bug.”

It’s unclear precisely what number of emails have been mistakenly duplicated, however the firm defined issues a bit extra in a tweet, saying “A recent update triggered duplicate emails for a subset of writers’ email lists. We apologize for the inconvenience to you and your readers. We’re on it, and we’ll make sure it does not happen again.”

Of course, in case you simply missed the final version of The Kicks You Wear in your overstuffed inbox that’s by no means at zero, getting a second copy is extra of a useful reminder than an annoying further message. And in case you’re troubled both by lacking a subscription publication or receiving one copy too many, the still-in-beta RSS reader or cell app (iOS only proper now, there’s a waitlist for Android customers) can present some alternate choices.