Return of the Weekly

We’re excited to announce the return of the Instapaper Weekly, a Sunday morning email with the most popular Instapaper articles from the previous week. The articles are chosen based on the Instarank algorithm, which takes into account the number of saves, reads, and likes on articles from each day. The Weekly also includes the most popular highlight from the past week.

The Weekly was initially disabled in 2018 as we worked toward GDPR compliance. Around the same time, our email service changed their business model from volume-based to tier-based. The result was that it would cost more than twice as much to send the weekly email, which we could no longer afford as it would have significantly increased our operating costs.

While the Weekly has been disabled, it’s become one of the most frequently requested Instapaper features. Over the course of the past few months, we’ve done the work to migrate our email service provider from Mailgun to Amazon’s Simple Email Service (SES). SES has a volume-based pricing model, which allows us to send the Weekly in a cost-effective manner.

We wrote a more technical post about the migration from Mailgun to SES, which you can read here if you’re interested, and we open sourced some tools we made during the migration.

If you were previously receiving the Weekly, you should start seeing it in your inbox automatically. If you aren’t sure of your Weekly status or want to modify any email settings, please check your Settings page on web.

If you have any questions, feature requests, or issues you’d like us to sort out, please let us know at support@instapaper.com or @InstapaperHelp on Twitter.

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