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Learnings from a deleted blog post

Started by Dhananjay Nene · 10 months ago

Yesterday this blog post was top of the charts in javablogs.com daily mail to me (Don’t bother clicking on the link since it seems to have been taken offline at least at the point in time I compose this post).

Quitting a job

I immediately got a little curious and looked up ... Continue reading »

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Serge Beaumont
1 year ago

Just to let you know: the article was already back up half a day later. There was some internal discussion on it (by the professionals on our internal "tech list"), and the author pulled it before the conclusion of the discussion was that we should not pull an article off our blog just because of worry about reactions. It's very important to us Xebians that the blog is an honest professional blog without any "corporate politics". The post is up, and will remain there.

Dhananjay Nene
1 year ago

Good to know its back. Actually I thought it was a rather innocuous article which just suddenly shot up in the viewership because of the emotive nature of the title. Of course it piqued my interest even more since it had gone offline. Good to know its back on.