Post planet.kde.org Blogs on Discuss automatically

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Hey there!

Not sure if this is possible, but it would be nice if the blogs from planet.kde.org could be cross posted here by the Profile - system - Discuss bot (or any other automatic system). I think Community is a good place (I’m open to suggestions if this is not the right place)

Reasons why:

  • I like to read the blog posts but sometimes I just forget the site because I don’t visit it so often as other websites (like Discuss).

  • Imo Discuss should be the primary resource to get KDE Info’s or news (not phoronix or reddit like I usally get my info’s)
    Make Discuss the primary source of KDE stuff, not some 3rd party websites!

  • Some people might not even be aware of the excellent blogs!

Reasons why not:

  • Maybe this is more difficult to implement than I think it is?

  • ???

Let me know what you think!

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Hey, that’s not a bad idea.

@carl @sitter

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Technically possible using the rss polling plugin. GitHub - discourse/discourse-rss-polling It simply creates a discuss discussion for every blog post in a dedicated category. I am wondering if the community has some opinions on this? It certainly would make it unnecessary to manually forward posts for discussion.

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Will it be in its own category “Planet”, so it doesn’t clutter up anything else?

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That’s not a bad idea. Or it could be named “News and announcements” or something maybe.

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Indeed, that’s how we should do it.

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Cool, I say we try it and see how it goes.

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I doubt it would clutter anything. There is like a post every few days.

I still think it would fit in Community but I don’'t care that much where it gets posted.

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+1

This sounds good as long as it’s in it’s own category and users who prefer can filter it out if they don’t want to see the extra posts.

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As mentioned in the ML, I have implemented Kossebau’s suggestion for Planet on my machine. My idea now is:

  • We go with the opt-in mode: an author needs to set discuss = 1 in the config block for their feed to have it posted to Discuss;
  • Then I’ll push the changes to Planet with Nate’s feed “discuss’ed”. Other authors can follow suit later;
  • Discuss then can use the feed at planet.kde.org/discuss/index.xml.

How do you think?

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sounds good to me :+1:

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Please have a look Support publishing to Discuss (!167) · Merge requests · Websites / Planet KDE · GitLab

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I’ve set this up now as part of the community category:

Let’s see how it goes.

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@phunh can we change the feed to only include a single post per author? currently when someone enables discuss=1 multiple of their old posts get aggregated into discuss, “spamming” the timeline

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It’s done. Could you check if that resolves the issue? Maybe @Herzenschein can re-add the config flag?

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Just reverted my revert. :eyes:

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The issue is resolved now :slight_smile:

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Did something break? The bot stopped adding new posts.

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Somehow a setting magically reverted. Not sure why but it’s back to what it is supposed to be :person_shrugging:

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