Is there no way to be notified of new posts to the website?

[Caesar Not Rex]

Salutations:

I just discovered this website & I see you post fairly regularly, but I see no way to subscribe to new posts apart from this Mailing list.  There are few posts here, so I assume that joining this group does not notify a person of new posts; is the intent that people visit the website every so often to check for new posts?  I am the kind of person to forget to do that.

Thank you for your time.

[John Cowan]

On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 1:57 AM Caesar Not Rex <notrexb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Salutations:

I just discovered this website & I see you post fairly regularly, but I see no way to subscribe to new posts apart from this Mailing list.  There are few posts here, so I assume that joining this group does not notify a person of new posts; is the intent that people visit the website every so often to check for new posts?  I am the kind of person to forget to do that.

This list is more of a backup in case something happens to the site or to Steve; it  lets commenters stay in touch during such emergencies.  It is not a regular notification stream.

You can follow @languagehat on twitter to get notified of posts, or you can keep the site open in a tab and refresh it every day  (which is about how often new posts come out).  There is also an RSS feed. 

To see new comments (which are a very important feature here), use the link on the right side labeled "Commented-on Language Hat posts".  This is an automatically generated page that is recomputed every time someone posts a comment, and moves that post to the top of the page.  You can explore the archives and comment on any post, no matter how old, and this feature makes sure that active members of the community will always see your comment.  The recommended way to search the whole blog, comments and all, is to do a Google site search (just add "site:languagehat.com" to whatever you want to search for) rather than using the site's built-in search which does not search the comments.  Topic drift is common and encouraged.

Thank you for your time.

Absolutely.    Everything except personal attacks on other commenters is on-topic and welcome here.  We loooove new bloooooood.  :-)