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Why do I see a Spanish blog post in the Community Bulletin module across the Stack Exchange network?

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While I appreciate the multilingual approach to Stack Overflow, my Spanish is only good enough to order something in a restaurant, not to read blog posts. I guess this is the same for most users here. I'd like to have links to non-English blog posts not appear in the Community Bulletin – if an exception is built in for (in this case) es.SO (and maybe spanish.SE), that's fine.

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  • imgur support seems to be broken at the moment. If you can't see the image, look at the yellow block at the right side of this page.
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 20:50
  • @AdamLear are you sure it's a [bug]?
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 21:02
  • Yes. Something got overlooked in the last blog system migration. Not 100% sure what, but this is a regression from how international blog posts were working before.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 21:03
  • OK, thanks. I usually don't pay attention to blog posts, so I don't know how the system is supposed to work.
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 21:05
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    Unless you use one of the international SO sites, you had no way to know we had these blog posts for a long time now. :)
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 21:06
  • No, I don't, except for flagging spam.
    – Glorfindel Mod
    Commented Mar 14, 2017 at 21:06

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Sorry about that. We recently moved our company blog to a different hosting platform (again!), and that caused some issues both with in-English posts being sync'd to community bulletins on localized Stack Overflow sites and with non-English posts written by community managers on those sites being propagated to community bulletins network-wide.

A fix is out in production now, though community bulletins are cached. They should self-heal in a few hours. Please let me know if you see any other CB weirdness after that.

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  • Is the new hosting platform WordPress? Looks like it from reading the source, but you were supposedly migrating away from it...
    – user315433
    Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 2:47
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    @NormalHuman So, funny thing about that... Turned out that WordPress is a massive pain to maintain and host on-prem for us given the low activity on community blogs, but is actually pretty alright for non-technical contributors. I'm not up on all of the details, but as far as I know we ended up with hosting at a third-party provider who takes care of the infrastructure maintenance for us and consolidating company blogs from Jekyll and Hubspot into one location.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 2:58
  • Or in short, we should expect many more bugs.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Mar 15, 2017 at 14:46
  • And now it appears in the Tavern. Same bug?
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Mar 22, 2017 at 21:43
  • can we get an rss feed that does not include these for blog.so? Because having a bot regularly post these into a site main-room is just begging to ignore the bot, even when the post would be relevant ...
    – Vogel612's Shadow
    Commented Jun 5, 2017 at 17:43
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    @Vogel612'sShadow Maybe! I'll talk to the folks running the blog to see what's possible there.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Jun 5, 2017 at 18:07
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    @Vogel612'sShadow The main blog feed should exclude non-English posts now.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Commented Jun 28, 2017 at 20:43
  • @AdamLear thanks very much :)
    – Vogel612's Shadow
    Commented Jun 28, 2017 at 21:35

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