I read OTW news pretty much exclusively here! If I feel the need to comment I will click over to the OTW site to comment, since that is where the majority of discussion is, but I greatly prefer reading through this account. I would not mind if comments here were redirected to the OTW site, though, if that reduced volunteer needs.
The RSS account would be an OK replacement, but I'd like to make sure that an OTW volunteer would be tasked to maintain it - DW RSS feeds frequently go silent due to minor changes on the originating end, so it would be very easy for DW feed to just disappear without notice if it wasn't being regularly checked up on. Also, would it be possible to tune the RSS feed so that it didn't require a clickthrough? As far as I know it's possible to set whether the feed will show the whole or partial posts, or even have several with different amounts - at least it used to. For-profit/ad-supported blogs require the clickthrough versions for obvious reasons so they've become more popular but I don't see why the OTW one could not offer RSS in full as at least an option?
(It should also be possible to use some kind of automation to crosspost to this DW account automatically without it being an RSS feed; I know it's been done in the past. That would have the benefit of preserving an archive and being far more user-friendly, as well as being a backup if the site blog is having problems.)
And finally I'd like to echo the requests above that if you are moving toward promoting RSS, to make RSS feeds of other important OTW updates more accessible.
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The RSS account would be an OK replacement, but I'd like to make sure that an OTW volunteer would be tasked to maintain it - DW RSS feeds frequently go silent due to minor changes on the originating end, so it would be very easy for DW feed to just disappear without notice if it wasn't being regularly checked up on. Also, would it be possible to tune the RSS feed so that it didn't require a clickthrough? As far as I know it's possible to set whether the feed will show the whole or partial posts, or even have several with different amounts - at least it used to. For-profit/ad-supported blogs require the clickthrough versions for obvious reasons so they've become more popular but I don't see why the OTW one could not offer RSS in full as at least an option?
(It should also be possible to use some kind of automation to crosspost to this DW account automatically without it being an RSS feed; I know it's been done in the past. That would have the benefit of preserving an archive and being far more user-friendly, as well as being a backup if the site blog is having problems.)
And finally I'd like to echo the requests above that if you are moving toward promoting RSS, to make RSS feeds of other important OTW updates more accessible.