After a few mentions in the media and thankfully no casualties yet, some people have asked when their emails get sent. We’re currently working on a feature that will allow you to specify custom intervals per email so you can specify some emails to be sent more quickly than others (e.g. if you go on vacation without internet access and can’t pay your bills so you want to notify a friend for it), but for now, this is the schedule:
30 days after your last visit to the site, an email gets sent to you urging you to log back in to verify you are okay. A second email gets sent two weeks after that, and the third email is a week after that. If you haven’t logged in in the following week (for a total of sixty estranged days), your emails get sent and we cry a single bitter tear for this tragic loss.
As always, if there are any questions/comments/concerns, you can contact us at support@deadmansswitch.net.
Well, the site is finally open for beta testing. If you want to try it out you can register, but since we’re still testing it, make sure you don’t enter any really sensitive data. We’re pretty sure everything’s fine, but we wouldn’t want to risk sending all your emails saying how much you hate everyone.
The site supports OpenID, so if you have an account you can just log right in. If there are any problems or questions, you can reach us at support@deadmansswitch.net.
Have fun and stay safe,
Dead Man’s Switch staff.