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+title: "This will be the last post on this RSS feed"
+date: 2025-02-23
+lang: en
+categories: [ blog ]
+tags: []
+translationKey: "2025-02-23-last-post"
+---
+
+I should preface this by saying I am not taking this website down or anything.
+If you are not bothered by all meta stuff, the takeaway is to update your
+<abbr>RSS</abbr> feed link from <https://xrvs.net/en/index.xml> to
+<https://xrvs.net/index.xml>.  It was changed from the latter to the former
+previously, and I believed it did wreck the subscription for some of you (not
+that I believe there are that many of *you*), which I regretted, so I make this
+announcement to not make that mistake again.  It will probably take at least a
+month or more since this post is published until I finish with the update, so
+take your time.
+
+## Motivation
+
+As you can see, this website hasn't received much updates (last post was almost
+a year ago), and it's probably going to stay that way for a while.  There's a
+joke that there are two kinds of personal websites: one that runs on wordpress
+and receive weekly update, and another where there's only two posts, first post
+is "I set up my website with jekyll" and the second post is "I changed from
+jekyll to hugo".  I am trying hard to not be the second one---I promise, these
+changes will not be for the sake of bikeshedding!---but well, it's kinda hard
+to find something to write about when most of your time is spent at work, and
+talking publicly about stuff happening at work is legally risky.
+
+So, I intend to spend more writing reviews on books and games as I read and
+play them.  I am not satisfied with the current state of their the book reviews
+section.  I have a list of books I read in [the misc](/en/misc/books/) and
+another list with [the reviews](/en/book-reviews/), which is a duplication.
+After the update, there will be one list at [/reading/](/reading/), with
+three-column kanban-esque design:
+
+- Backlog: list of books I intend to read, maybe with a reason why I want to
+    reador where I got recommended that book
+- Currently reading: books I'm currently reading, probably with comments as I
+    read (likely contain spoiler)
+- Read: books that I finished reading, with the review.
+
+Note that obviously, I will not update the old posts to backfill the reading
+log or reason I want to read a book, if they're not already there.  Game
+reviews will also be in this format.
+
+The second issue with the book reviews is, I review the book in the language I
+read the book in.  As a result, the reviews are scattered.  I intend to merge
+the languages into one so it'd be easier to track.  It's not like I translate
+posts or enjoy translating them anyways, so I'll also remove any translations
+that happened to be there as well.  I will figure out how to add a filter for
+language in the <abbr>RSS</abbr> feed.  Let me know if you're aware of such a
+way.
+
+Another improvements that I planned is the taxonomy (i.e. tags and categories).
+I'd like the categories to be clearly defined with a hierarchy rather than a
+mess it is right now---it is for this reason that I hide those from the main
+menu bar.
+
+## Change plan summary
+
+- Add new list type "backlog" for books, movies, games etc
+- Improve taxonomy
+- Removing post translations
+- Move site root from /en/ to /