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title = "Hello, World"
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date = 2023-08-16
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This is a test of the new announcement feed system.
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From here on, all announcements regarding all things Source Control will come through here. That includes notices of maintenance, downtime, as well as more general updates about the service.
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The biggest motivator for this move, aside from a personal want to do some web design for a change, was to start breaking our community dependence on Discord. For too long now, it's been the one and only avenue through which all forewords about the website have been made.
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Aside from the heavy reliance on a third-party and that being against the a key mission statement of why this website exists, Discord is also a very lacking syndication system. Posts can be pinned and announcements can push notifications to personal devices, sure, but it's far more tailored to a conversational experience than a platform for news propagation.
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Our new solution uses RSS and allows us to distribute information without having to worry about so many third-parties being involved. With it being a core web technology and standard, it's been tested by time and has a higher level of reliability than Discord or any highly dynamic internet-based service for that matter.
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Aside from visiting the website directly to view updates, you can also subscribe to our RSS feed at [https://pizzawednes.day/feed/rss.xml](https://pizzawednes.day/feed/rss.xml) and receive notifications to any device you wish to that supports RSS content. Further, we will continue pushing announcement to Discord - now through an RSS relay bot.
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