Value of the Solr Blog

2025-02-02 Thread Mike Drob
Hi Devs, I'd like to discuss the value of the Solr blog at https://solr.apache.org/blog.html We started it a year ago with a great idea that if we build it, content will come. But it looks like the breakdown of posts was: 2 meta posts about the blog 3 posts about C/C conferences (2 of which are

Re: Value of the Solr Blog

2025-02-02 Thread Gus Heck
In its current form it's more of a news feed than a blog. A blog should be displaying the latest post by default with links/navigation to past posts. Obviously, there's no hard rule there, but commonly the front page shows the latest. This is also why ideally a blog post would be a full complete us

Re: Value of the Solr Blog

2025-02-02 Thread Walter Underwood
Feel free to pick and choose from my back catalog of search-related blog posts. Even some of the old ones are still relevant, like “Searchers Punt Early” and “Do all-stopword queries matter?” Here is that category: https://observer.wunderwood.org/category/search-engines/page/2/ I use MarsEdit,

Re: Value of the Solr Blog

2025-02-02 Thread David Smiley
I have no problem with our so-called "blog" being more of an aggregation of posts hosted elsewhere. We could rename it to better reflect this, like maybe "the Solr Ecosystem Feed"? Not so short & sweet... but whatever. Ultimately, I think the point is to bring more visibility across the Solr ecos