Yes, Astro can do similarly. You set the publish date to a future date and it will not be generated until then.
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why don’t we just start adding to the main website instead of branching out. and while we are at it make a community page or something.
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I’m mostly indifferent to if it’s on its own subdomain or not, but I do think we should incorporate it with the main landing page in a way that it doesn’t feel like you’re leaving the main site when you visit it if that makes sense.
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I’m all in for including a news page under the landing page. It allows for selected latest announcements be promoted on the frontpage as something like a banner, which would be great to complement the list of goals/roadmap with actual status updates of the progress being done.
Because currently, if I’m being completely honest, the landing page feels a little stagnant, reading more like a vision/todo-list with all the actual community activity and events hidden behind the Discourse forum link.
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Adding a blog to astro is trivial
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Could it be set up for RSS and ActivityPub from day one?
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RSS, most definitely, fairly easily. I think ActivityPub might need some additional integrations.
I believe AP would require a server, not just static assets. But RSS can be enabled quite easily.
If astro doesn’t offer easy built-in support, here’s an up to date guide on how to configure it for a generic static site: A Guide to Implementing ActivityPub in a Static Site (or Any Website) — Part 4 | by Maho Pacheco | Medium
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I stand corrected! If that’s the case then we can probably do it regardless of which tool we are using. I was under the impression that non-static things would need to be supported but apparently not!
An additional optional use case is to then via js render any replies to those posts as blog comments - just with less centralized tracking of everyone interested in replying and more choice.
And a decision on that option can be left for later as the posts would already have been published and potentially responded to.
I think I’ve been noticing the effects of this a lot recently, even on a modern mobile device (Pixel 7A). I’m using the forum on Firefox Mobile, and if I leave Discourse tabs open for too long it becomes very slow or starts completely refusing to load and I have to restart the browser. It’s so strange to basically stand against performance optimization; it seems so unnecessary, and I find pretty much every other aspect of Discourse very pleasant to use.
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I’d be happy with any aggregated newsletter. Trying to keep track of all Discourse topics could get quite difficult, quickly.
I use Feedly to keep track of things I’m interested in, such as blogs. These are added via RSS. I like the NixOS newsletter, too.
Cheers,
Chris
chris_debian
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