Re: Tomcat website, RSS and social media

On 08/06/2026 09:38, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 08/06/2026 09:31, Mark Thomas wrote:
>> On 08/06/2026 08:45, Thorsten Heit wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> actually new releases of Tomcat, Tomcat Connector etc. are announced 
>>> on the mailing list and posted on the website.
>>>
>>> What do you think of providing an RSS feed for announcements, website 
>>> updates etc.?
>>
>> If it can be automated, sure.
>>
>>> OTOH there's a Twitter/X account which doesn't seem to be active 
>>> (anymore?). The latest post is from July '24 and refers to the 
>>> availability of Tomcat 11.0.0-M22... Although I don't use Twitter 
>>> (anymore) I'd appreciate if such announcements are also posted there :-)
>>
>> I used to announce Tomcat releases on Twitter. I haven't done that 
>> since July '24 and have no plans to restart that process.
>>
>>> Regarding social media:
>>> I'd also appreciate if there'd be an account in the Fediverse (which 
>>> is becoming more and more popular) where such annoucements, updates, 
>>> news, whatever are posted.
>>
>> That should be doable.
>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> BTW:
>>> Where can I report errors on the website? I just found out that the 
>>> link to the blog under "Media" doesn't work: It links to https:// 
>>> blogs.apache.org/tomcat that redirects to https://tomcat.apache.org/ 
>>> blog/ which results in a 404/Not Found.
>>
>> Here is fine.
>>
>> Let me see what happened with the blogs link. I thought the content 
>> got migrated somewhere...
> 
> Here it is:
> https://blogsarchive.apache.org/#tomcat
> 
> The content is pretty dated. We should probably drop the blogs link - at 
> least from the navigation bar anyway.

I've dropped the Twitter and the Blogs link. I left YouTube as there is 
more recent Tomcat content from Community over Code conferences we 
could/should add to that channel.

Mark

> If someone wanted to start producing content, that would be a good way 
> to contribute to the project.
> 
> Mark
> 
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