Doesn't work with a lot of subreddits though, which ban posting links to your own site.
Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere
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Let me describe my setup, so that you can compare. I use a Contabo VPS for around 5 USD month to host my Wagtail (django-based) site. The DB also runs on the same infra and since it's SQLite I can back it up externally. I probably wouldn't be able to handle 0.5M requests, but I am nowhere near getting them. If I start approaching such numbers I'll consider an upgrade. Check out Wagtail if you'd like to have even more…
Thank you for sharing your setup, I will certainly examine it and compare a bit later. I know my setup is a bit over the top, but it is the easiest to learn, since I live in gcp everyday. I certainly don't expect the .5m traffic, but that is one of the lower tiers for cloud run, serverless execution service. This is just a poc to get my fingers dirty with the MVT pattern.
Gotcha. Yes, with just a VPS you have to do a lot of busywork to get online - DNS, reverse proxy, docker, dev environment, DB setup and others.
I'd still recommend starting with SQLite, seems that by skipping a DB service you can save quite a few bucks.
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Please also enable CORS[1] for your RSS feed. (If your whole site is a static site, then please just enable CORS site-wide. This is how GitHub Pages works. There's pretty much no reason not to.) Not having CORS set up for your RSS feed means that browser-based feed readers won't be able to fetch your feed to parse it (without running a proxy). 1. https://enable-cors.org/ >
You can try https://corsproxy.io/ as a workaround.
That's a proxy. It's right in the name.
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#244We followed this practice at a Non-Profit I volunteered for some years ago. For us, it was motivated by a few reasons: - we trained the community around us to look to our website first for the most recent news and information - we did not want a social media platform to be able to cut us off from our community (on purpose or accident) by shuttering accounts or groups - we did not want to require our users have accoun…
It's embarrassing how many official non-us politicians, parties and organisations use Twitter as their main communication method.
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#245How do we deal with the fact that billionaires’ social media platforms reduce the reach of posts with links? Will we always have our posts throttled?
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#246I've restarted blogging last year, going from a handful of blog post to, publishing consistently. All content gets published on my blog first. I've seen an ~8x increase of traffic. I was affected by zero-clicks from Google's AI overview, but the bulk of my traffic now comes from RSS readers. I published a write up just this morning: https://idiallo.com/blog/what-its-like-blogging-in-2025
These are impressive metrics, are you able to make a living off of your 10M views? I'm planning to leave my job this year and focus on content, mostly have been considering YouTube, but if blogging can work too, might consider that as well
Making a living on "content" is really hard, subscribers or views don't turn directly into income.
At some point you're getting sponsors to pay for it and then it get complicated.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a proxy. It's right in the name.
Yes, it's proxy. If there are no serious privacy concerns, I think it's fine to use it (if there is no other option).
I'll simplify:
If you want to get a red line, you need to use red ink. If you use blue ink, you'll get blue lines. And I can draw you cat. (I'm no artist, but I can give it a try.) But it it won't be a line anymore. A line and a cat: those are two different things.
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#249Read through the comments. Added RSS and subscribe to my blog!
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#250Also, don't forget to set up an RSS or Atom feed for your website. Contrary to the recurring claim that RSS is dead, most of the traffic to my website still comes from RSS feeds, even in 2̶0̶2̶5̶ 2026! In fact, one of my silly little games became moderately popular because someone found it in my RSS feed and shared it on HN. [1] From the referer (sic) data in my web server logs (which is not completely reliable but s…
Is there any reason today to use RSS over Atom? Atom sounds like it has all the advantages, except maybe compatibility with some old or stubborn clients?
A great summary why Atom is better [1].
Here's an oldie but a goodie regarding RSS vs Atom [2]
[1]: https://ittavern.com/difference-between-rss-and-atom/
[2]: http://www.intertwingly.net/wiki/pie/Rss20AndAtom10Compared