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Re:The psychological cost of having an RSS feed by refp on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @12:52PM (#45825749)
The TLDR is that I back in 2015 published some C++ related posts that got way more traction than I originally anticipated, and given the subscriptions to the RSS-feed I felt like I could not live up to the contents people perhaps expected.

On the other hand, I have no idea what people _actually_ expected to be published, but in my head I have for what it's worth created this nightmare scenario where I post something not related to C++, and all those readers would be /pinged and disappointed.

Impressions and clicks are a confident booster, though the fear of disappointing or letting people down because they expect "better" content is something I for sure struggle with

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Re:The psychological cost of having an RSS feed by BinaryIgor on Wednesday November 05, 2025 @01:19PM (#45826040)
Got you :) I advise you to work on it and get over it - it's far more satisfying to mostly (not always) write about things others are interested in; people find value in your work and you have more impact at the same time; it's an overall win-win.
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