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Publishing handbook

Set up a feed, schedule issues and send them to readers on any screen.

Start a feed

Chapters

01

Your first feed

Name a feed, give it an address and push a draft.

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02

Scheduling

Send at a set hour in each reader's own time zone.

Open
03

Webhooks

Have your own service called when an issue is sent or opened.

Open
04

Archive

Keep past issues searchable or take them offline.

Open

Sample feed

A small weekly feed with three issues, two editors and a template, ready to copy into your account.

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Your first feed

A feed is a named stream of issues. Readers follow the feed, not the single issue.

Naming and address

Every feed gets a short address made from its name. Change it later with feed.rename; old addresses keep working for ninety days. The webhook reference lists the events a feed can send.

  • Names are up to forty characters.
  • One feed can have several editors.
  • Drafts are private until an issue is scheduled.

From the command line

Create the feed, then push a first draft.

chronoskin feed new "Night desk"
chronoskin push draft.md --feed night-desk
Heads up Scheduled issues go out in the reader's time zone, not yours.
Push rejected The draft has no title. Add one and push again.

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Webhooks

Addresses that chronoskin calls when an issue is sent, opened or bounced.

Add webhook

Endpoints

Edit hook.opened
NameEventStatusCallsFailedMedian ms
hook.sentIssue sentLive9,1201284
hook.openedIssue openedLive7,6453191
hook.joinedReader joinedPaused1,302077
hook.bouncedMail bouncedFailing1371002,410
4 Live Paused Failing New Weekly feed Editors only
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  3. hook.opened

hook.opened

Called each time a reader opens an issue of the night desk feed.

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