Timeline for We will no longer be hosting Blog Overflow
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| Dec 15, 2022 at 21:58 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum |
Isn't the company blog based on WordPress? It has a very WordPress'y feel to it. For instance, most or all of the JavaScript code it wants to load is the same as WordPress (e.g., domains wp.com and pressablecdn.com). And adding "feed" to the end of the base URL gets the RSS feed URL. Is it a WordPress blog, but self-hosted (not on wordpress.com)?
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| S May 30, 2017 at 17:28 | history | suggested | iBug says Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2017 at 12:47 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:30 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.stackexchange.com/ with https://meta.stackexchange.com/
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| Mar 15, 2017 at 21:20 | comment | added | nhinkle | RIP the blog. It was (really really) fun while it lasted, but it never quite fit the Stack Exchange model and never got the support it needed from the company to survive. Those of us who really kept it going eventually got burned out, and without the features necessary to get new participants involved they just sort of petered out. Sad to see it go, but from the blogs' one-time #1 supporter it's clear their time has passed. | |
| Mar 8, 2017 at 14:20 | comment | added | ErvalhouS | Would this mean the end of the Podcasts? :( | |
| Mar 7, 2017 at 14:01 | comment | added | totymedli | So from your perspective it was @UselessCode | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 21:17 | answer | added | user178465 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 15:43 | answer | added | Dan | timeline score: 9 | |
| Mar 6, 2017 at 15:19 | answer | added | user170579 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 20:03 | comment | added | user287266 | @Tim Shouldn't be. I just hadn't optimized the WP site, and it's on a cheap, shared hosting server. | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 19:28 | comment | added | Tim | @CreationEdge I'm in the UK so if it's hosted overseas that was probably the issue for me? | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 19:26 | comment | added | user287266 | @Tim Not particularly. Doesn't seem to be anything going on with the host, but caching was turned off awhile back while some other troubleshooting was going on so maybe I should turn it back on now. *click* | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 18:12 | comment | added | Tim | Right now, thesffblog.com is very slow to load for me. Is it under high load right now? | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 14:00 | answer | added | Chris Pratt | timeline score: 20 | |
| Mar 3, 2017 at 2:07 | answer | added | luser droog | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 23:24 | comment | added | user151055 | Whats blog overflow? | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 19:23 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Staff | @JackBNimble I think so, because I think it pulls that off the blogs RSS feed, which is redirecting to the current live blog. However I cannot say whether or not that will stay the case in the future. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 19:08 | comment | added | Jack B Nimble | Will stackexchange.com/blogs continue to show our scifi.se blog feed? | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 18:58 | comment | added | silvascientist | I completely forgot that Math.SE had a blog. And now it is gone. Now I'm sad. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 18:27 | comment | added | Jack B Nimble | I've hidden a treasure map to $100,000 across all the scifi.blogoverflow.com entries. You have to read them all if you want any hope of finding the map though. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 13:37 | comment | added | bye | I occasionally clicked on blogs here but couldn't comment. I think I was expected to create an external account (Disqus, perhaps). Even though I'm not the sort of person to engage in online discussions anywhere outside of this site (because the quality of debate is laughable just about everywhere on the internet) I might have done so here had I not been required to create another account. Is this the last stack overflow related page which requires an external account, or are there still others? | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 12:17 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Staff | @MichaelHampton meta.stackexchange.com/q/287566/131874 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 12:14 | comment | added | ArtOfCode | @Wildcard Owner-copyright. Whoever contributes the content retains the copyright, unless they choose to license it otherwise (which I usually do). | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 12:03 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | The SF Blog is a company blog so that's covered under "company blog". The lack of plural in the initial statement is just a charm point. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 11:20 | comment | added | TRiG | Not mentioned in this post: Server Fault. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 8:58 | comment | added | Stijn | I knew the blogs existed, but the few times I tried to look at them I found it confusing to navigate and I didn't really understand how it all worked. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 8:54 | answer | added | Patrick Hofman | timeline score: 62 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 8:47 | answer | added | AncientSwordRage | timeline score: 122 | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 8:37 | comment | added | Lundin | If anyone had actually known that these blogs existed, I would suspect that they would have been much more active, with a lot more readers... It would seem that SE needs a marketing department. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 5:40 | comment | added | Wildcard | @ArtOfCode, interesting—under what licensing is content contributed to that blog? | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 5:35 | comment | added | Shog9 Mod | I'd say this is as conclusive as it gets that we're out of the blog-hosting business, @Robotnik; we've discussed countless other options over the years, from profile-page blogs to team blogs to transforming the Q&A engine into a blog engine and running them like another meta site... But nothing ever got off the runway, and it's time to just face up to that. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 2:40 | comment | added | ArtOfCode | @Mindwin Worldbuilding's setup is similar to what Carpetsmoker described. I created the blog, so technically I own it and can do just about anything with it that I want to. | |
| Mar 2, 2017 at 0:23 | comment | added | DavidG | For those of you who, like me, had never heard of this feature, if you look at the blog-overflow info, you can get the link to the blogs. It seems you learn something new about the network every day! | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 23:53 | comment | added | Jason C | Here is a list of all MSE posts that have been featured and contain the word "blog", as well as the same list for MSO (in case any were missed in the old split). None of them are about Blog Overflow, which is telling. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 23:39 | comment | added | Jason C | @randal'thor Maybe, although for example I wonder how many people first become aware of the existence of BO (chuckle) through this featured post about shutting it down. A good featured meta post every once in a while might have served it well. Grace Note actually made a previous meta post that specifically points out the lack of integration. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 23:29 | comment | added | Robotnik | The biggest problem I had was that of the blog's scope - I was never sure whether the point of it all was to write a blog for me (i.e. give my thoughts on some relevant but not-site-specific topic) or write for the site (community announcements/milestones and the like). I'd still like to see the SE-hosted 30k personal blogs proposed by Shog - is this still on the cards or effectively dead and buried given this announcement? | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 22:52 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | @Cypher Maybe you've been on the wrong sites then (sites which never had a blog, or whose blog has been inactive for years). If you'd been active on Science Fiction & Fantasy for a while, you would have seen some blog posts. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 22:38 | comment | added | Cypher | I have never once seen a blog link anywhere on StackExchange. If this was supposed to be a feature that you wanted people to know about, you missed. Big. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 22:24 | history | edited | msh210 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Mar 1, 2017 at 22:12 | history | suggested | Möoz | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added link to SFF blog for people who may be interested.
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| Mar 1, 2017 at 21:02 | history | edited | This_is_NOT_a_forum | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Active reading. [<http://webapps.stackexchange.com/tour>]
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| Mar 1, 2017 at 20:43 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | @GraceNote it'd be great if we could get some sort of built-in connection, like feeding new posts to the community bulletin automatically instead of needing moderators to create community events. I made a proposal about how to handle the accountability side and protect SE's interests. (That's on a question asking for a "blog" link in the supercollider, which would be nice too, but it seems to me the considerations for apparent endorsement would be the same.) | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 20:38 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | Eh? The Server Fault blog is not listed. What's going on here? | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 20:35 | comment | added | o11c | "simply obliterated off the face of the internet, or would be if such a thing were possible." If only that were true ... there are all sorts of old things that never got fully crawled by the Wayback Machine before they went down. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 20:19 | comment | added | hairboat StaffMod | @VictorStafusa: Nope, that's the company blog (for company news, podcasts, the Code for a Living blog, etc) and it's untouched by this change. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 20:18 | comment | added | Victor Stafusa |
Do this also applies to the https://stackoverflow.blog stuff?
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| Mar 1, 2017 at 19:26 | comment | added | Joe | Thanks for being open and transparent about this process, as opposed to certain other internet companies I won't name. It's sad when something doesn't work and has to be shut down, but the way you handled this was as positive as could be. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 19:14 | comment | added | Martin Tournoij | @Mindwin I "own" the account and am the only one with full access. The other two mods and two long-standing community members have access to it but can only post (or "tweet") with that account (you can give other accounts permission to post something on a "group" account). In principle I could go off my rocker and start posting ads or racist stuff or whatnot... There isn't really any way to prevent that with any external service I think... | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 19:13 | comment | added | Useless Code | I had no idea this feature even existed. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 19:10 | comment | added | Mindwin Remember Monica | @Carpetsmoker how does ownership of that resource works? Who owns that account from the point of view of that service provider (twitter in the case). Can one/few person hijack the account and turn it private or worse, sell it? Take parallel with the case of several Open Source projects whose trademark was owned by an individual/company that decided to go closed. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 19:03 | comment | added | Grace Note StaffMod | There's community promotion ads designed for that purpose (though I don't think Vi/Vim has those yet). With regards to blogs, Worldbuilding has a setup we encourage involving the usage of meta posts and the Community Bulletin for giving visibility to the blog. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 18:47 | comment | added | Martin Tournoij | One thing that would be nice to have is the ability to add links to external services somewhere prominently(-ish) on the site. For example on the Vi site we have a Twitter account (which is not automatically managed through the SE Twitter bot), but the only way to know it's there is to dig up some meta post about it. That way people can host Twitter accounts, weblogs, GitHub accounts, or whatever else tickles that community's fancy. | |
| Mar 1, 2017 at 18:41 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2017 at 18:23 | history | asked | Grace NoteStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |