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We will no longer be hosting Blog Overflow
People not knowing about site blogs has lead to a long standing joke over at Sci-fi & Fantasy:SE.
"We have a blog?"
We're happy to be one of the few carrying on.
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We will no longer be hosting Blog Overflow
Maybe it is just me, but I think this is the general feeling of a lot of users within the network: I don't care. This is by no way an attempt to be rude, I just think that the blog don't add a lot of ...
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We will no longer be hosting Blog Overflow
This might be a little off-topic, but I'd like to throw it out there. These blogs apparently weren't overly successful, but the fact that some communities felt the need to create one seems to imply ...
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Why doesn't anyone use the Stack Exchange community blogs anymore?
Science Fiction & Fantasy Blog is alive and well, although I only just learned of this announcement that the blogoverflow platform will be going away.
Looking at the main blog site, ours is the ...
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Can Community Blogs be redeemed?
The brunt of your request is already addressed in the post explaining why we stopped creating new blogs in the first place:
Much of this is our fault: we never successfully integrated blogging into ...
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We will no longer be hosting Blog Overflow
What a shame. I never heard of this feature before, and the blogs actually look really nice! It took me forever to find a link to one of the blog posts though. Apparently there's a "blog" link at the ...
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Can Community Blogs be redeemed?
I understand the decision not to support blogs; it's a lot of effort for not much gain for SE. A smaller task, I hope achievable, would be to provide some integration of off-site blogs on SE sites ...
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Can Community Blogs be redeemed?
I tend to agree - I see the value in offering a place to host blog-like content. However, I can also see the other perspective - the current system isn't well integrated into the rest of Stack ...
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What's going to replace the moderator newsletter when Blog Overflow is shut down?
Right now there's 3 kinds of information we want to be distributing across moderators. One is important, not-specifically-mod-stuff, but discussions and announcements (either by Blog or Meta) that ...
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What's going to replace the moderator newsletter when Blog Overflow is shut down?
We've gotten two network-wide moderation notices (orange diamond, like the newsletters of yore) this week. Both linked to posts on Meta.SE. I suspect that this is what they meant by "can be directly ...
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Where can I find site community blogs?
Unofficial Site Blogs
An Eye on the Universe (Astronomy)
Language Learning Blog
One Minute Reviews (Literature)
The Retrocomputing Blog
Science Fiction & Fantasy Community Blog
TeX Talk
Universe ...
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Markdown source for old BlogOverflow posts?
This could be done with some scripting:
curl -s http://english.blogoverflow.com/2015/11/why-did-i-delete-your-answer/ |
pup '.post-text' |
pandoc -f html -t markdown_strict
pup is https://github....
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We will no longer be hosting Blog Overflow
Another option not to be overlooked for those wishing to blog is the existing Q/A format.
Eg. One of my "share your knowledge" Questions
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Can Community Blogs be redeemed?
At Photography Stack Exchange, we have an initiative to convert some of the popular and helpful blog posts which fit the format to be self-answered questions, or in some cases answers to existing ...
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