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Why not combine links in one monthly post similar to https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-january-2025 https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-january-

by eamag 2y ago

Why not combine links in one monthly post similar to https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-january-2025 https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/links-for-january-2025 I personally prefer this format (https://eamag.me/2025/Links-For-January-2025 https://eamag.me/2025/Links-For-January-2025) and you can post single links on social media instead no?

xuanwo 2y ago
Some quick ideas: - Multiple links in the same post make it difficult to organize discussions and thoughts. - Monthly posts require extra effort to maintain and update, which didn't align with our initial goal of sharing more casually and recording our thoughts in real time. - Modern static site generators support maintaining archive pages by month, so we no longer need to do it manually. Hoping those ideas make sense to you.
purist33 2y ago
Like the other reply said, a monthly link blog would be too much. I find myself ignoring a lot of those links of the month posts because it covers too many topics and I end up not liking most of it. Whereas one which has small commentary on a single link is great for me, since if i like the commentary enough, I would add the link to my read later.
MattSayar 2y ago
I've settled on posting interesting links to BlueSky and then I put a Bsky sidebar on my site[0]. It's a win-win; I have the small links+comments "on" my site, but the longer stuff that gets posted to RSS/newsletter to my site proper. [0] https://mattsayar.com https://mattsayar.com
simonw 2y ago
Depends on how much commentary you are adding. If more than a sentence it's worth having a separate page so that other people can link to what you said! My link blog entries are often quite long: https://simonwillison.net/search/?type=blogmark https://simonwillison.net/search/?type=blogmark
rcarmo 2y ago
I've tended to bunch things up in weekly notes myself: https://taoofmac.com/space/notes https://taoofmac.com/space/notes
DJHenk 2y ago
I think bundling links is better than just throwing one out whenever you find it. If you get one link at a random time, you probably skip it. Unless you are a dopamine addict, in which case I just broke your concentration and fueled a bad habit. A weekly, or monthly collection is something a reader can take their time for. Or put aside for a moment and come back later to it. A downside of link bundles is that on an average blog, each installment becomes a page, and one has to click a lot before one gets to the interesting part. My linkblog therefore sends a collection of links every week via RSS (and others like Bluesky, Mastodon, etc. will follow, if I ever take the time to implement it), but on the web it is just one long list, ready for consumption: https://ewintr.nl/linklog/ https://ewintr.nl/linklog/
wink 2y ago
Just depends how many links. I did this for a couple years at https://f5n.org/stack/ https://f5n.org/stack/ and weekly sometimes felt like too many links already.

by eamag 2y ago

xuanwo 2y ago

Some quick ideas: - Multiple links in the same post make it difficult to organize discussions and thoughts. - Monthly posts require extra effort to maintain and update, which didn't align with our initial goal of sharing more casually and recording our thoughts in real time. - Modern static site generators support maintaining archive pages by month, so we no longer need to do it manually. Hoping those ideas make sense to you.

purist33 2y ago

Like the other reply said, a monthly link blog would be too much. I find myself ignoring a lot of those links of the month posts because it covers too many topics and I end up not liking most of it. Whereas one which has small commentary on a single link is great for me, since if i like the commentary enough, I would add the link to my read later.

MattSayar 2y ago

I've settled on posting interesting links to BlueSky and then I put a Bsky sidebar on my site[0]. It's a win-win; I have the small links+comments "on" my site, but the longer stuff that gets posted to RSS/newsletter to my site proper. [0] https://mattsayar.com https://mattsayar.com

simonw 2y ago

Depends on how much commentary you are adding. If more than a sentence it's worth having a separate page so that other people can link to what you said! My link blog entries are often quite long: https://simonwillison.net/search/?type=blogmark https://simonwillison.net/search/?type=blogmark

rcarmo 2y ago

I've tended to bunch things up in weekly notes myself: https://taoofmac.com/space/notes https://taoofmac.com/space/notes

DJHenk 2y ago

I think bundling links is better than just throwing one out whenever you find it. If you get one link at a random time, you probably skip it. Unless you are a dopamine addict, in which case I just broke your concentration and fueled a bad habit. A weekly, or monthly collection is something a reader can take their time for. Or put aside for a moment and come back later to it. A downside of link bundles is that on an average blog, each installment becomes a page, and one has to click a lot before one gets to the interesting part. My linkblog therefore sends a collection of links every week via RSS (and others like Bluesky, Mastodon, etc. will follow, if I ever take the time to implement it), but on the web it is just one long list, ready for consumption: https://ewintr.nl/linklog/ https://ewintr.nl/linklog/

wink 2y ago

Just depends how many links. I did this for a couple years at https://f5n.org/stack/ https://f5n.org/stack/ and weekly sometimes felt like too many links already.