I was slightly surprised, mostly because I had the expectation that if you’ve known about LW for a while, then I would have thought that you’d end up contributing either early or not at all. Curious what caused it to happen in 2021 in particular.
The way I have set this up for writers in the past has been to setup crossposting from an RSS feed under a tag (e.g. crossposting all posts tagged ‘lesswrong’).
I spent a minute trying and failed to figure out how to make an RSS feed from your blog under a single category. But if you have such an rss feed, and you make a category like ‘lesswrong’ then I’ll set up a simple crosspost, and hopefully save you a little time in expectation. This will work if you add the category old posts as well as new ones.
There’s a technical problem. My blog is currently frozen due to a stuck database server; I’m trying to rehost it. But I agree to your plan in principle and will discuss it with you when the blog is back up.
I recently learned of a free (donation-funded) service, siftrss.com, wherein you can take an RSS feed and do text-based filtering on any of its fields to produce a new RSS feed. (I’ve made a few feeds with it and it seems to work well.) I suspect you could filter based on the “category” field.
I was slightly surprised, mostly because I had the expectation that if you’ve known about LW for a while, then I would have thought that you’d end up contributing either early or not at all. Curious what caused it to happen in 2021 in particular.
I don’t really have an interesting answer, I’m afraid. Busy life, lots of other things to pay attention to, never got around to it before.
Now that I’ve got the idea, I may re-post some rationality-adjacent stuff from my personal blog here so the LW crowd can know it exists.
The way I have set this up for writers in the past has been to setup crossposting from an RSS feed under a tag (e.g. crossposting all posts tagged ‘lesswrong’).
I spent a minute trying and failed to figure out how to make an RSS feed from your blog under a single category. But if you have such an rss feed, and you make a category like ‘lesswrong’ then I’ll set up a simple crosspost, and hopefully save you a little time in expectation. This will work if you add the category old posts as well as new ones.
There’s a technical problem. My blog is currently frozen due to a stuck database server; I’m trying to rehost it. But I agree to your plan in principle and will discuss it with you when the blog is back up.
Sounds good.
I recently learned of a free (donation-funded) service, siftrss.com, wherein you can take an RSS feed and do text-based filtering on any of its fields to produce a new RSS feed. (I’ve made a few feeds with it and it seems to work well.) I suspect you could filter based on the “category” field.
Please do.