From 1c4a9bfd7046c9b3ca3ff7a86201465eeedfdea3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wesley Moore Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 10:19:22 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] Add slowing-read-rust-posting --- .../posts/2020/slowing-read-rust-posting.md | 86 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+) create mode 100644 v2/content/posts/2020/slowing-read-rust-posting.md diff --git a/v2/content/posts/2020/slowing-read-rust-posting.md b/v2/content/posts/2020/slowing-read-rust-posting.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9e7448 --- /dev/null +++ b/v2/content/posts/2020/slowing-read-rust-posting.md @@ -0,0 +1,86 @@ ++++ +title = "Slowing Down Read Rust Posting" +date = 2020-09-07T10:00:00+10:00 + +[extra] +#updated = 2020-06-19T09:30:00+10:00 ++++ + +After nearly 3 years and more than 3200 posts I'm going to slow down the +posting frequency on Read Rust. I hope this will free up some spare time and +make it easier to take breaks from social media. I aim to share all of the +[#rust2021] posts I can find, but after that I'll probably only share posts +that seem particularly noteworthy or interesting. + + + +I started [Read Rust] in January 2018 to track the posts being shared as part of +the [inaugural call for blog posts][inaugural-call]. When I started there were +only a handful of new posts each day to triage. Now there are many more and +unless I triage and publish daily they quickly pile up. + +Also, I've kind of built a reflex of trying to "complete the Internet" each day +by ensuring that I read my whole Twitter feed, and new posts on [/r/rust]. I +would like to break this habit and be able to take breaks from these things, +without feeling like I might miss an important post. + +Whilst I think there is value in the curation and archiving of posts on Read +Rust, the website doesn't see a lot of use. I think most of the value for +people is following the [Twitter], [Mastodon], and [Facebook] accounts. +However, there's a fair amount of overlap between posts shared on [/r/rust], +[@rustlang], and [This Week in Rust][twir]. So, I think that if folks keep an +eye on one or more of those they will still see most posts of note. + +If you're not into social media, the full list of more than 450 Rust RSS feeds +I subscribe to is available via an OPML file on the site. So, feel free to use +that to subscribe to a bunch of feeds instead. [Rust blogs OPML][opml]. + +It's been fun to build, and rebuild the website and surrounding tooling over +the years. Read Rust was initially just an RSS feed but after requests for an +actual web-page I built a small site with the [Cobalt static site +compiler][cobalt]. In late 2019 in an effort to streamline the sharing of posts +I rebuilt the site as dynamic web app. In early 2020 I added full test search. + +As mentioned in the introduction, from here I plan to share [#rust2021] posts and +after that posting will be much less frequent. Thanks for reading, and happy +coding 🦀. + +### Frequently Anticipated Questions + +#### Q. What about getting others to help share posts? + +I considered this, and it it was actually part of the motivation for the +rebuild in 2019. However, ultimately Rust is now large enough and continuing to +grow such that it's become less and less feasible to curate the entire +firehose of Rust content. + +#### Q. What about making it a sort of RSS powered Rust [planet]? + +I think there's value in curation. Rust is popular enough now that there's a +lot of low effort posts, or repetitious getting started posts. Also, people +rightly have diverse interests and their blog may not solely contain Rust +posts. So, I'd prefer to keep the archive in the focussed state it's in now. + +#### Q. What will happen to the site and social media accounts now? + +I plan to keep the site up and running indefinitely. I am a strong believer in +not breaking links on the web, and I think I have a pretty decent track record. +For example, this site has been online for 13 years and I still have redirects +in place from the very first version of it. I may still share the occasional +post but in general I hope to free up a bit of time to work on other things. + +[inaugural-call]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2018/01/03/new-years-rust-a-call-for-community-blogposts.html +[#rust2021]: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/09/03/Planning-2021-Roadmap.html +[cobalt]: https://cobalt-org.github.io/ +[Twitter]: https://twitter.com/read_rust +[Mastodon]: https://botsin.space/@readrust +[Facebook]: https://www.facebook.com/readrust/ +[/r/rust]: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/ +[@rustlang]: https://twitter.com/rustlang +[libstriptags]: https://github.com/wezm/libstriptags +[feedfinder]: https://github.com/wezm/feedfinder +[feedbin-sharing]: https://feedbin.com/help/sharing-read-it-later-services/ +[planet]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software) +[opml]: https://readrust.net/rust-blogs.opml +[twir]: https://this-week-in-rust.org/ +[Read Rust]: https://readrust.net/