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LetsEncrypt – Expiration Notification Service Has Ended

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181 points zdw | 1 comments | 30 Jun 25 04:49 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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leakycap ◴[30 Jun 25 04:52 UTC] No.44419518[source]▶
One could say it expired.

> Providing expiration notifications costs Let’s Encrypt tens of thousands of dollars per year, money that we believe can be better spent on other aspects of our infrastructure.

Appreciate the honesty (they had other reasons, too! but emails are a pain and expensive at their scale)

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amenghra ◴[30 Jun 25 07:16 UTC] No.44420397[source]▶
They should just build a mobile app for the purpose of receiving these notifications. Make the app $2.99. Turn the expense into a profit. /s
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tuananh ◴[30 Jun 25 07:29 UTC] No.44420462[source]▶
what's the cost of sending notifications via mobile app? cheaper than email?
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1. bbarnett ◴[30 Jun 25 09:07 UTC] No.44421073[source]▶
Mobile app? Now they need to develop that, keep up to date with OS version changes, and far far worse, support end users and their bugs?

And worse of all, worry about Apple and Google's arbitrary rejections?

This seems far more costly than email. Just having one dev keeping those apps going, is likely 20x or more than their email costs per year.