Technically, this will be the last post for me of #weblogpomo 2024, even though its now June. I didn’t feel like I could actually make it until now when Pomo can find some much deserved rest. Thank you to everyone that followed along! I wanted to give you some stats:
Feeds Processed: 65 (not all at once though, a few times feeds changed)
Posts Processed: 1169 (this includes admin posts I sent)
Total Followers: 72 (High), 69 (Current)
The Feeds: Download an OPML file here (thank you Robb for exporting this!)
The below charts come from Mastometrics - I loaded it up to just get a window into what Pomo has done:
The interactions graph is particularly interesting - if you notice the first few days, interactions were higher than the rest of the month. They dropped when I went back and added Mastodon links to the echos so that people could interact directly with you all.
If you were curious about the work involved in running something like this, most of the time and energy was spent in the initial setup phase (which I detailed here). Once it was up and running, I occasionally had to setup a new feed (the last of which was last week for someone that made their blog during the month and shared some great posts up until the final hours, like this one) and there was the very rare troubleshooting that needed to be done (mostly clicking on the “try again” button in the “failure to post” email from Echofeed). Speaking of which - many thanks to Robb & Echofeed! Echofeed is an amazing service - check it out if you are wanting to do any automated crossposting of feeds. The most time consuming “mid month” piece was adding Mastodon links to all of the echoes as I had to first track those down and then change the actual echoes.
I hope you enjoyed following along with Pomo! Please download the OPML file and find some people to follow along with. If you really, really enjoyed Pomo, feel free to get me a coffee! (Zero pressure on that though. Pomo was there for anyone and everyone to enjoy reading fun posts during #weblogpomo2024.)