Re: Tomcat website, RSS and social media

Mark,

On 6/8/26 4:42 AM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

Hmm, I thought either Rich or Brian handled that. I know for sure that I 
have never posted anything to YouTube, and yet it gets there. Jean-Frederic?

-chris