Hmm. Maybe for short term solutions (until we figure out a way to get promote individual discussion posts while keeping them in discussion), maybe for posts like this:
a) create a stub post on Main, which mostly says “we have an important thing to say, check it out in discussion”
b) maybe also make a post on Main saying “Main is now deprecated. Apart from major announcements, all stuff will be in Discussion now. Consider updating your RSS. We’re also seeing a lot of old timers return to post these days, check it out”. etc.
I don’t think this will happen with a sufficiently large number of people to make that a good option. I think my current best plan is to keep the sitewide RSS as having only promoted posts, but including promoted posts in Discussion. We can also advertise the Discussion RSS a bit more heavily, but I don’t know how many people will want to do that relative to just checking LW.
Hmm. Maybe for short term solutions (until we figure out a way to get promote individual discussion posts while keeping them in discussion), maybe for posts like this:
a) create a stub post on Main, which mostly says “we have an important thing to say, check it out in discussion”
b) maybe also make a post on Main saying “Main is now deprecated. Apart from major announcements, all stuff will be in Discussion now. Consider updating your RSS. We’re also seeing a lot of old timers return to post these days, check it out”. etc.
I don’t think this will happen with a sufficiently large number of people to make that a good option. I think my current best plan is to keep the sitewide RSS as having only promoted posts, but including promoted posts in Discussion. We can also advertise the Discussion RSS a bit more heavily, but I don’t know how many people will want to do that relative to just checking LW.