Re: New blog - who dis?

On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 2:16 PM Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 2:47 PM Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <ads(at)pgug(dot)de>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 1:00 PM Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> On 2023-Sep-04, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> >>
> >> > I plan to migrate my blog to a new software platform, which
> >> > will also change the URLs which appear in the RSS feed. There
> >> > is no convenient way to keep the old URLs in place.
> >> >
> >> > Most importantly, this will affect Planet PostgreSQL, which
> >> > suddenly might see about 150 "new" blog postings.
> >> >
> >> > Is there a recommended way how to deal with such a move?
> >>
> >> Each post in the blog has a "guid" unique identifier, which is usually
> >> the same as the URL, but some platforms let you set up something
> >> different. If you can "migrate" your posts to the new platform while
> >> keeping the GUIDs, that would be best -- they would not be seen as new
> >> posts. The actual URLs don't actually matter.
> >
> >
> > The guid in my case is the full URL of the posting, including the domain.
> > I would need to break and fix quite a few things to port this guid over
> to
> > the new system, and I can easily miss something before going live.
>
> You wouldn't need to keep the URL for the new posts, only the GUIDs.
> That is, new posts could have GUIDs in a new format, old posts could
> just use the old URL in the GUID and the new URL in the, well, URL.
>

That's a theme change which I more or less permanently need to
maintain. I'd avoid that, if possible.

> > I'd rather not go down this path.
>
> Strictly speaking, per the RSS requirements, you have to. Not donig
> so will cause reposts for anybody *else* who is tracking your RSS feed
> as well, not just Planet PostgreSQL.
>

Correct, but I'm mostly worried about spamming Planet.

* No posts older than 7 days will get posted to *twitter*. They only
> go in the planet RSS feed(s).
> * The planet RSS feeds contain 30 items. The homepage as well. At this
> point you can see this goes back to Aug 24, so not very far. That
> means that any entries older than that will be ingested into the
> system, but they won't actually be shown to anybody.
> * The feed passed through to www.postgresql.org further restricts this
> to just the past 10
>
> So this would indicate that if you have a period of say 2 weeks of no
> postings, *planet* won't notice. Others might.
>

Basically not posting to Planet from this blog for 2-3 weeks, and maybe
giving someone a heads-up should do the job?

Regards,

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Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
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