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title = "Slowing Down Read Rust Posting"
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date = 2020-09-07T10:00:00+10:00
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2021-10-01 00:46:19 +00:00
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updated = 2021-10-01T10:44:43+10:00
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After nearly 3 years and more than 3200 posts I'm going to slow down the
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posting frequency on Read Rust. I hope this will free up some spare time and
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make it easier to take breaks from social media. I aim to share all of the
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[#rust2021] posts I can find, but after that I'll probably only share posts
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that seem particularly noteworthy or interesting.
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I started [Read Rust] in January 2018 to track the posts being shared as part of
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the [inaugural call for blog posts][inaugural-call]. When I started there were
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only a handful of new posts each day to triage. Now there are many more and
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unless I triage and publish daily they quickly pile up.
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Also, I've kind of built a reflex of trying to "complete the Internet" each day
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by ensuring that I read my whole Twitter feed, and new posts on [/r/rust]. I
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would like to break this habit and be able to take breaks from these things,
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without feeling like I might miss an important post.
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Whilst I think there is value in the curation and archiving of posts on Read
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Rust, the website doesn't see a lot of use. I think most of the value for
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people is following the [Twitter], [Mastodon], and [Facebook] accounts.
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However, there's a fair amount of overlap between posts shared on [/r/rust],
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[@rustlang], and [This Week in Rust][twir]. So, I think that if folks keep an
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eye on one or more of those they will still see most posts of note.
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If you're not into social media, the full list of more than 450 Rust RSS feeds
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I subscribe to is available via an OPML file on the site. So, feel free to use
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that to subscribe to a bunch of feeds instead. [Rust blogs OPML][opml].
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It's been fun to build, and rebuild the website and surrounding tooling over
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the years. Read Rust was initially just an RSS feed but after requests for an
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actual web-page I built a small site with the [Cobalt static site
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compiler][cobalt]. In late 2019 in an effort to streamline the sharing of posts
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I rebuilt the site as dynamic web app. In early 2020 I added full text search.
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2020-09-07 00:19:22 +00:00
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As mentioned in the introduction, from here I plan to share [#rust2021] posts and
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after that posting will be much less frequent. Thanks for reading, and happy
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coding 🦀.
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### Frequently Anticipated Questions
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#### Q. What about getting others to help share posts?
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I considered this, and it it was actually part of the motivation for the
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rebuild in 2019. However, ultimately Rust is now large enough and continuing to
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grow such that it's become less and less feasible to curate the entire
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firehose of Rust content.
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#### Q. What about making it a sort of RSS powered Rust [planet]?
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I think there's value in curation. Rust is popular enough now that there's a
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lot of low effort posts, or repetitious getting started posts. Also, people
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rightly have diverse interests and their blog may not solely contain Rust
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posts. So, I'd prefer to keep the archive in the focussed state it's in now.
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#### Q. What will happen to the site and social media accounts now?
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I plan to keep the site up and running indefinitely. I am a strong believer in
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not breaking links on the web, and I think I have a pretty decent track record.
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For example, this site has been online for 13 years and I still have redirects
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in place from the very first version of it. I may still share the occasional
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post but in general I hope to free up a bit of time to work on other things.
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[inaugural-call]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/01/03/new-years-rust-a-call-for-community-blogposts.html
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[#rust2021]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/09/03/Planning-2021-Roadmap.html
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[cobalt]: https://cobalt-org.github.io/
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[Twitter]: https://twitter.com/read_rust
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[Mastodon]: https://botsin.space/@readrust
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[Facebook]: https://www.facebook.com/readrust/
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[/r/rust]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/
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[@rustlang]: https://twitter.com/rustlang
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[libstriptags]: https://github.com/wezm/libstriptags
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[feedfinder]: https://github.com/wezm/feedfinder
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[feedbin-sharing]: https://feedbin.com/help/sharing-read-it-later-services/
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[planet]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)
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[opml]: https://readrust.net/rust-blogs.opml
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[twir]: https://this-week-in-rust.org/
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[Read Rust]: https://readrust.net/
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