I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
I think scheduled posts is a nice and theoretically easy feature to implement, but personally I see it as completely unimportant. That's not because I wouldn't use it myself, it's because I don't get why anyone would.
People aren't coming here thinking, "oh, it's Thursday at 4AM, that's when Jo Bloggs' CSS posts come out" (because Jo lives in a different timezone). People follow topics and see posts the next time they open up the site. Readers don't schedule when they see content, so it makes no sense to me that writers should need to in an asynchronous medium like the Internet.
I also don't really get post templates. If your posts are so similar that they benefit from copying and pasting large chunks, doesn't that mean they're largely redundant? If instead, you want to follow a layout like "heading here, summary here", you can keep such a template in anything you like - save it in a text file if you want, make a draft post here that you never publish if you want, and then use copy-paste to do-the-do.
I suppose I sound a bit negative, but I'm trying to say that these are problems the world has already solved with tools we all have at hand already. Why have them built-in to a platform when that means that you need to learn a different process for every new site you use?
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I think scheduled posts is a nice and theoretically easy feature to implement, but personally I see it as completely unimportant. That's not because I wouldn't use it myself, it's because I don't get why anyone would.
People aren't coming here thinking, "oh, it's Thursday at 4AM, that's when Jo Bloggs' CSS posts come out" (because Jo lives in a different timezone). People follow topics and see posts the next time they open up the site. Readers don't schedule when they see content, so it makes no sense to me that writers should need to in an asynchronous medium like the Internet.
I also don't really get post templates. If your posts are so similar that they benefit from copying and pasting large chunks, doesn't that mean they're largely redundant? If instead, you want to follow a layout like "heading here, summary here", you can keep such a template in anything you like - save it in a text file if you want, make a draft post here that you never publish if you want, and then use copy-paste to do-the-do.
I suppose I sound a bit negative, but I'm trying to say that these are problems the world has already solved with tools we all have at hand already. Why have them built-in to a platform when that means that you need to learn a different process for every new site you use?