Thank you for fronting the cost all these years!
Of course! Happy to do it.
In the past, I have accepted advertising as a way to offset the costs. In the future, I may no longer accept advertising since I expect my costs to be low enough. We’ll see what SES ends up costing me, and how much maintenance listmonk requires 
Aww, please do — HW is my no. 1 source of job ads.
Job postings will certainly remain! I just may do them for free, depending on how things shake out.
I switched my company to SES last year and it was a great success. They are a AWS shop though, I can’t comment on the costs unfortunately because the email usage was small and the bill was miniscule compared the rest of the services.
I must confess though every time I pay for anything email related my brain always wonders if I could build something to do this myself.
Most of the cost of self-hosting goes into getting your IPs removed from blacklists 
Microsoft especially is quite harsh.
Oh interesting, are blank lists just a blanket ban then? I guess the email servers have no way to distinguish between random emails and something you subscribe to.
Shocking to see Microsoft trying to profit off legacy design 
One annoying change that I noticed after the switch is that the hyperlinks are mangled like https://listmonk.haskellweekly.news/link/SHA while it used to be a direct link which was easy to copy and paste somewhere (something I often do). Mangled links are ugly so I don’t want to preserve them. So, what I have to do is to use the mangled link to get to the webpage in the browser and then copy the actual URL from the browser’s address bar. This is cumbersome, albeit not the end of the world.
This is not a consequence of listmonk per se, but rather of this PR:
I am considering not accepting sponsored links anymore since my costs are so much lower now. If I did that, I wouldn’t need to do link tracking either.
Links are clean again — it’s awesome! Thanks!