OTW News Reader Comment Period

[otw_staff]

The OTW Communications Committee periodically reviews its news distribution process to best balance volunteer workload and the maximum reach possible for readership. This review has shown that for some years now there has been little to no engagement here on Dreamwidth.

However readers on Dreamwidth are capable of utilizing RSS feed accounts. On Dreamwidth, OTW news can be found via the otw_rss_feed and there is a separate account for the AO3 News blog.

The Communications Committee is proposing to stop manually adding blurbs and links to this account, and instead redirecting readers to subscribe to the feeds. This account will not be deleted, so its archive will remain open. It simply will not be updated.

Today begins a 2 week feedback period from readers regarding this change, letting us know how many people are still reading, and what reasons those readers might have as to why the feeds would not serve the same function.

If you do comment, please let us know how long you have been reading this account and how often you click through to the website to read the full news posts. On June 24, we will post again with a decision.

Thank you for your interest in OTW news!

Comments

[vriddy]

I always read the posts, and have been reading since I created this account in 2020, I think this was one of the first comms I followed :) I do read and click through most news items, though I don't comment in either place. The comm is helpful to learn about updates and is the main way I do hear about them. It'd be a bit sad to lose the proper Dreamwidth comm, especially at a time when other fandom spaces like Twitter are getting more hostile, though I can follow the RSS feeds. There's something weird going on with the feeds where old posts get pushed to the feed again whenever there's an update, so the comm is nice to make sure the new stuff does surface and not miss it.