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+title = "Slowing Down Read Rust Posting"
+date = 2020-09-07T10:00:00+10:00
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+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.
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+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/