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Discussion on: Where do you cross-post?

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Waylon Walker

I really like the #indieweb, and the POSSE pattern! I am trying to do better at consistently posting this year. That has skyrocketed my engagement/audience from where it was. There is no hack that makes up for not putting the work in.

I also just set up hashnode. It seems really cool, but I was a bit hesitant to maintain comments/community on even more platforms, but I am going to make the jump.

How do you syndicate with Actions! I would love to do this. The RSS feed misses my cover image and all of the language blocks.

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Saul Hardman

Really good point about consistency – I wonder what the psychology is there? Are people more likely to follow if there's some guarantee of seeing fresh content regularly?

Regarding Hashnode, it seems like there's a history between DEV and itself. I have to say that the overall user experience on Hashnode feels somewhat lacking. It opens far too many links in new tabs and there are very apparent "seams" between the Hashnode site and individual publications. I've cross-posted a single article for now and will take some more time to evaluate the platform before setting up any automated syndication I think.

I'll tidy-up the Action, push it to GitHub, and then post a link to this thread so that you can get the general idea 👍