In its current form it's more of a news feed than a blog. A blog should be displaying the latest post by default with links/navigation to past posts. Obviously, there's no hard rule there, but commonly the front page shows the latest. This is also why ideally a blog post would be a full complete useful article on it's own, rather than a blurb and link. I'm not against a link to learn more at the end of a post that is independently useful, and having a news/links feed is also fine, but what we have now seems a bit confused in terms of format. For example the posts on lucidworks site ( https://lucidworks.com/post/solr-boolean-operators/), or yonick's old posts (https://yonik.com/facet-domains/) are what I would consider "blog posts"
Clicking through what we have so far, it's more like a collection of tweets. On Sun, Feb 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM Mike Drob <md...@mdrob.com> wrote: > Hi Devs, > > I'd like to discuss the value of the Solr blog at > https://solr.apache.org/blog.html > > We started it a year ago with a great idea that if we build it, content > will come. But it looks like the breakdown of posts was: > > 2 meta posts about the blog > 3 posts about C/C conferences (2 of which are outbound links) > 7 additional outbound links > > So 75% of our content is outbound links. Is there value in providing these > outbound links rather than linking directly to those blogs on our Resources > page? Maybe these outbound links to individual posts help with SEO for our > authors, I don't know enough about this topic to speak confidently. > > Maybe the "join us at upcoming conference" can be part of the News feed? > And conference recaps? Or if we had recaps of our monthly community > meetings on the blog that would be a good venue for it. > > Let's have a discussion about what can be done to improve the presentation > on our web site, having had some time to let this experiment play out. > > Thanks, > Mike > -- http://www.needhamsoftware.com (work) https://a.co/d/b2sZLD9 (my fantasy fiction book)
