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When there is a new post to the SO blog, it's featured on every site in the Feature box on the top-right of the sidebar, in the Blog section. Only posts from the main blog show up here automatically (though I believe site moderators can manually pin blog posts there if they want.)

Below that, though, in the Featured On Meta section, a combination of posts from meta.SE and meta.site.se appears together.

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Is there a way to get new posts from the per-site blogs to show up here as well?

I see some older questions that indicate that new posts used to be indicated in the header bar, e.g.

Can a new official blog post also be announced on sites with their own blogs?

and

Per-site blog publicity

but those links are no longer present, so that notification doesn't happen anymore.

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  • Good idea... But I thought blog posts weren't supported?
    – Zizouz212
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 1:09
  • There is a way... You can ask a moderator to use the Upcoming Events Sidebar to provide a link to the post - I'd expect meta consensus and all that stuff with that though.
    – Zizouz212
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 1:09
  • You don't even know before a blog post will be made?
    – Zizouz212
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 1:35
  • Honestly, you've got a communication breakdown. Fix that, and the rest of the problem is solved.
    – Zizouz212
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 1:38
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    I'm honestly not sure I understand your point, but it's not really important. Obviously we can get these posts 'featured' eventually, I just thought it would be nice for the per-site blogs to get at least as much visibility as the SO blog and the per-site metas.
    – KutuluMike
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 1:41

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So... They're supposed to show up. There's a limit of two blog posts in the bulletin at any one time, and the company blog has priority... But rarely do we actually have two company blog posts running at once. So there should almost always be at least one slot for site blog posts, if not two.

There's just one problem: we made a change a while back, to only list blog posts tagged "company". That way, we're not annoying y'all with awesome articles about scheduled task syntax. Which you've probably already read.

There's just one problem: we're tagging posts with "company", but you folks are dropping the ball. A quick check on https://stackexchange.com/blogs shows hardly any posts tagged "company". It's like you don't even want folks to read your posts.

...ok, actually it's more like a bug; this wasn't supposed to apply to all blogs. Rather than forcing you to come up with convoluted schemes to work around it, Adam has generously offered to just fix it.

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    I pushed a fix for this. It'll be live next time we build out.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 16:47
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    Thanks! And thanks to Shog for ---hacking up--- fixing the one blog post we already had. And boo for strikethrough not working in comments.
    – KutuluMike
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 18:03
  • @Mike who said we can't use s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶t̶h̶r̶o̶u̶g̶h̶ in comments? ;)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 19:04
  • (magic)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 19:05
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    Using Unicode is cheating. IN ANY CONTEXT.
    – Shog9
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 19:05
  • So that makes me a proud cheater. :D
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jan 13, 2016 at 19:06
  • @AdamLear So now neither marking the post as sticky nor adding the hack 'company' category to the post seems to make it appear in the featured box. This is for scifi.blogoverflow.com/2016/02/…
    – Jack B Nimble
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 16:29
  • Hmm, unless it takes awhile to show up.
    – Jack B Nimble
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 16:37

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