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Self-hosted status pages struggle to email subscribers about updates

Operators of self-hosted status pages want visitors to subscribe to incident and maintenance updates, including updates for selected services, but the requests here describe missing email-subscription features. That makes a move to Uptime Kuma harder for at least one operator and leaves page owners looking for a way to deliver updates reliably. A similar, adjacent request from a Blogger user shows the broader need to notify invited readers about later posts.

For self-hosted status page operators. Mentioned from Nov 2021 to Jun 2024 on GitHub and Stack Exchange.

5 different people described this problem in 3 separate discussions.

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Indie fit
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Pain
5.2/10
Frequency
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Momentum
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Who pays
Businesses
Competition
Medium
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Medium

What people said

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  1. This is the main thing preventing me from fully implementing Uptime-Kuma and switching from UptimeRobot
  2. On the status page, I don't see any email Subscription while if I post any incident and update that alone should have go to the email who have subscribed
    sjkeerthi on GitHub (louislam/uptime-kuma)Nov 2021+71 upvotesAsked for a tool
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