Hi

I noticed that in Reddit's r/perl brian_d_foy and others keep posting just one liner links as a kind of newsfeed.

I was thinking of mirroring this here in News because then we could easily discuss them here.

I already made sure Brian is fine with this. He also suggested to me to use the RSS as source for simplification.

This would significantly increase the number of posts in Perl News so I wanted to ask beforehand. Another alternative target could be Meditations

For clarification: These are curated links, I'm not talking about total automation.

I'd probably use a nodelet hack to check the RSS and prepare the post here to be mirrored

Examples from Reddit

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re: Link reposting in "Perl News"?
by NERDVANA (Priest) on Jul 24, 2025 at 21:50 UTC
    Maybe just post each link in the most appropriate location? Some links from reddit are current events that classify as "News". Other links from reddit are blogs where someone discusses some aspect of the language, which seem to naturally fit in Meditations. Some could even be "Cool Uses for Perl".
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      Some could even be "Cool Uses for Perl".

      Eh, no. Exactly the opposite. CUFP posts should consist primarily of perl code, and preferably one's own original work.

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Re: Link reposting in "Perl News"?
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 18, 2025 at 17:29 UTC

    If we were to syndicate Reddit, it could be reusing some other RSS nodelet thing. I don't see any sense of reposting stuff from there to here in any automated or regular fashion. This just creates additional moderation burden on our site.

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      If we were to syndicate Reddit, it could be reusing some other RSS nodelet thing.

      Good idea! One step ahead of you. :-D

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      > If we were to syndicate Reddit, it could be reusing some other RSS nodelet thing.

      I don't see it as "syndicating" Reddit but spreading news curated by Brian over more channels.

      We have regulars here who don't use Reddit.

      And I rather prefer discussing them here than on Reddit.

      > This just creates additional moderation burden on our site.

      I found those links very interesting and worthy of discussion. And we are currently not overwhelmed with moderation tasks.

      I'm asking because just posting links is not our usual style here.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      Update

      I'm not talking about linking to Reddit but reusing the curated links posted there

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        I found those links very interesting and worthy of discussion.

        Maybe I'm still not understanding you. It seems to me that either

        1. You can manually take the links you're interested in from there and put them in a post here, either in Meditations or Perl News.
        2. You're thinking we should automate something.

        If the latter, it would be helpful if you could elaborate.

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Re: Link reposting in "Perl News"?
by hippo (Archbishop) on Jul 18, 2025 at 16:21 UTC
    Another alternative target could be Meditations

    I think that if this is going to be done at all then that's a better place for them. Not sure that any of the examples you've posted here really count as News (although I haven't perused the podcast). Also, if they start off in Meditations it's easier to relocate them post-facto, if desired.

    Maybe try it for a week or two and see if there's any traction?

    🦛

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      I think the rationale for using the News section is that these are just links to external content, and traditionally the expectation was for Meditations to be more substantial content for discussion.
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        Exactly. It's not that there can't be discussion ensuing from a PN post; the main difference is that the OP is simply sharing a link to something offsite, vs presenting their own ruminations on a topic and including relevant off-site links.

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