Am I missing something?

If you would like a follow button to appear on the bottom right hand corner of your site for those who do not have WordPress.com accounts see here >
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/09/21/more-traffic-for-your-blog-with-the-follow-button/

Find Friends Who Use WordPress > http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/find-friends/

You can customize the contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you'll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

See also Inviting Contributors, Followers, and Viewers http://en.support.wordpress.com/adding-users/
Note: As a spammer prevention you are limited to sending out 10 invitations at one point in time. Wait then send out 10 more.

is it possible to have a subscription box, so visitors of the website can subscribe in order to be included in newletters, etc?

thanks

So, could you build:
(1) A search function so I could find a particular site I subscribed to
(2) An ability to do a bulk action on all those sites found by the search I set up.

Just a thought.
I LOVE WordPress

Just to be clear - did the email come into your main WP.com address, or to a second address you created for this purpose?

Honestly, for a company which itself hardly uses email... just sayin' ;)

If you change your default email delivery preferences to "instant" - would you let me know if you start receiving emails for self-hosted sites you've signed up for? And whether that affects future sites (WP.com and Jetpack) that you follow, or if they still only show up in the Reader?

If you'd rather not, I understand. :-)

Still, hoping that one day it will be possible to edit jetpack subscription settings.

What about my first suggestion of simply being logged out of WordPress.com when I sign up? I'm assuming (hopefully) that would bypass the whole quagmire.

As long as you sign up with the same email attached to your WordPress.com account, I don't think it will matter whether you're logged out or not, since subscriptions are tied to a unique email address, rather than a WP.com username. Does that make sense?

What about my first suggestion of simply being logged out of WordPress.com when I sign up? I'm assuming (hopefully) that would bypass the whole quagmire.

So essentially you're saying is that the subscription *is* an email subscription, but I cannot edit delivery settings.

That's right. Currently, you can't edit delivery settings for Jetpack sites like you can for WordPress.com sites.

If updates follow my default delivery settings, then I won't receive updates by email since my default Reader setting is "no email delivery".

I've confirmed that there isn't a way to override default "no email delivery" settings to receive emails from Jetpack sites. I will bring this to our developers' attention.

One workaround could be to subscribe for email updates on Jetpack sites using a different email address. Some email services such as Gmail allow you to create forwarders "on the fly" by adding a dot or plus sign after the first part of your address, which will deliver mail to you normally but be treated as a unique email in our database.

So for example, if your email were [email redacted] - you could enter [email redacted] or [email redacted] in the subscriptions box and you should then receive updates by email. I realize this is an extra step and apologize for the inconvenience.

If updates follow my default delivery settings, then I won't receive updates by email since my default Reader setting is "no email delivery".

I bring this up because I do have a couple of other "Blogs I Follow" that are self-hosted. There, too, I cannot edit the delivery settings. No updates are sent by email; I can only read them in my Reader.

While there isn't a way with Jetpack sites to toggle between seeing posts in the Reader and getting email updates when you sign up to receive emails initially, you should start getting emails beginning with their next blog post.

I also signed up for email notifications myself in the same way you did, and I'll look out for their next update.

Let's stay in touch here to make sure we both receive email updates as expected.

That isn't very helpful for many of them. Is there a way for me to make that default page be in French? I know if they open a WP.com account, they can change the interface language. But 99% of my traffic is non-wp people.

I would greatly appreciate help here! Thanks ahead.

As I said, I was logged in to WordPress.com at the time I subscribed and my subscription went into my Reader.

By itself that would not be a problem, but I cannot edit my Reader subscription to change the settings to receive updates by email.

Is this the site from which you signed up?

http://2013.sf.wordcamp.org/

Did you sign up by adding your email address to the form in the sidebar, like in this screenshot?

http://cl.ly/image/202f2A2f2v2h

If that's not what you see, would you mind showing me a screenshot of what you're seeing in the sidebar? Thanks!

When I signed up I was logged into WordPress.com and the subscription was automattically added to my WordPress.com Reader. However, I cannot edit the subscription settings to deliver updates by email, as I can with WordPress.com sites I'm following.

This is one site where I really *do* want to receive updates by email. What can I do to enable this, short of unsubscribing and then resubscribing while I'm logged out of WordPress.com?

Before trying Chrome I thought I'd try this using Firefox in private browsing mode. So in that, I went to petspeopleandlife.wordpress.com and clicking the 'Follow' button in the admin bar gave me the tooltip that I was following and would see posts in my reader, but the 'Follow' link didn't change to 'Following'. I then went to the Reader's edit page and this time it did appear. I then logged out of my WordPress.com account and out of private browsing mode. Logged back in, not in p.b.mode and blog still showing on Reader's edit page, but still not showing as 'followed' in admin strip on the blog itself.

I then closed the browser window and cleared cache/cookies and logged back in - not in pb.mode - and blog still in edit list. Back to her blog and it now shows that I'm following.

So, I don't know what happened there. Any ideas?

Just to be sure, though, I downloaded Chrome and it works in that too, both in normal log in and in p.b.mode (Incognito).

I'd like your opinion on what could have happened so that I can avoid it in future.

Ah, and there's another person with this same issue, on this thread: http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/cant-follow-blogs?replies=4#post-1163862

One other thing, which I find a bit odd, on the home page the image in my current post http://artyoldbird.com/2013/02/25/mountains-are-sort-of-slanty-sided/ appears in Firefox but not in Chrome. Yet the other pics in other posts are fine. I've put a screenshot of the two windows, tiled horizontally, on a page in my blog, here: http://artyoldbird.com/chrome-view-vs-firefox-view-temp-page/

An incognito window automatically disables extensions and caches, and flushes cookies when you close it. It's pretty handy for troubleshooting. If it works, then we definitely know something in the browser is causing trouble.