These posts (this is your third such in the past few weeks) seem to be using Lobsters as a blog promotion service. Although that seems unfortunately common here from time to time, it does run counter to the general “no self promotion” guideline. I’m assuming that you weren’t aware of that guideline, so I hope my response is helpful. (And if we’re supposed to be posting weekly links to our blogs here, I hope a moderator will correct me.)
Note that it does seem acceptable here, from time to time (e.g. a few times a year), to link some significant technical achievement, major product release,or a deep technical discussion on a vexing topic related to your work. The measure seems to be: If it is significantly newsworthy or technically interesting, and it’s topically relevant here.
Sorry, I certainly wasn’t promoting or anything, I’m looking for feedback and ideas around the recent changes I made on my programming language. Especially after receiving feedback to keep writing and publishing these type of posts for keeping up with recent development. I also specifically never added analytics and the likes to my blog, I do not want to gain anything from these posts of course excluding feedback and new ideas for my programming language.
I sadly didn’t know posts had to be newsworthy, my posts most certainly include technical in depth topics around programming language development and feature implementations. I think they are relevant simply because they are technical and lobster is catering to a technical audience.
A point of yours i agree with is the amount of posts in the last weeks. I will think twice before posting the next editions and whether or not they are slowly turning into spam.
I hope my intent is somewhat clearer and would love to have some feedback around whether or not these kind of posts are wanted on lobster.
I don’t necessarily see an issue with the content of the post specifically, but there are a few things you could do to better abide the (unofficial) community guidelines:
Make sure that you’re interacting with posts other than your own in decent proportion. Some people will tell you 5/1, some 10/1, I think the important thing is that you’re doing it regularly more than specific ratios. You already seem to be doing this so far as I can tell
Rather than posting on a cadence, post when you have something specifically interesting to share. Writing regularly is a great habit, but sharing every post probably is not that valuable (and will eventually lead to people getting annoyed)
If you really want to post general updates to some new tech on a cadence, weekly is far too frequent. Monthly might even be too often. I’d go quarterly personally, but that’s just me
I’m sure others have other advice/opinions. In general I think your content could be of interest to Lobsters, but almost certainly not in a “weekly update” format.
These posts (this is your third such in the past few weeks) seem to be using Lobsters as a blog promotion service. Although that seems unfortunately common here from time to time, it does run counter to the general “no self promotion” guideline. I’m assuming that you weren’t aware of that guideline, so I hope my response is helpful. (And if we’re supposed to be posting weekly links to our blogs here, I hope a moderator will correct me.)
Note that it does seem acceptable here, from time to time (e.g. a few times a year), to link some significant technical achievement, major product release,or a deep technical discussion on a vexing topic related to your work. The measure seems to be: If it is significantly newsworthy or technically interesting, and it’s topically relevant here.
Sorry, I certainly wasn’t promoting or anything, I’m looking for feedback and ideas around the recent changes I made on my programming language. Especially after receiving feedback to keep writing and publishing these type of posts for keeping up with recent development. I also specifically never added analytics and the likes to my blog, I do not want to gain anything from these posts of course excluding feedback and new ideas for my programming language.
I sadly didn’t know posts had to be newsworthy, my posts most certainly include technical in depth topics around programming language development and feature implementations. I think they are relevant simply because they are technical and lobster is catering to a technical audience.
A point of yours i agree with is the amount of posts in the last weeks. I will think twice before posting the next editions and whether or not they are slowly turning into spam.
I hope my intent is somewhat clearer and would love to have some feedback around whether or not these kind of posts are wanted on lobster.
I don’t necessarily see an issue with the content of the post specifically, but there are a few things you could do to better abide the (unofficial) community guidelines:
I’m sure others have other advice/opinions. In general I think your content could be of interest to Lobsters, but almost certainly not in a “weekly update” format.
I think for language implementation discussions, the best places I’ve found are these:
Thanks, I appreciate it :)