I have no problem with our so-called "blog" being more of an aggregation of posts hosted elsewhere. We could rename it to better reflect this, like maybe "the Solr Ecosystem Feed"? Not so short & sweet... but whatever. Ultimately, I think the point is to bring more visibility across the Solr ecosystem to whatever that's Solr related.
On the other hand, perhaps the new-ish Solr LinkedIn group[1] (now public and we've taken it over) should be *that*, and our "blog" becomes a true blog? As long as an ecosystem feed exists, I'm not sure how much demand/need there is for a true Solr/project sponsored blog. [1]: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/1557747/ 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 >
