Alternative to @rubygems_status on Twitter

[andyw8]

Since https://twitter.com/rubygems_status is no longer viewable unless logged in to Twitter, can this information be shared in another way? For example on Mastodon or Bluesky.

[simi]

Hello @andyw8. Status is currently available at https://status.rubygems.org/. Does that work for you? Link to this page is little hidden at the RubyGems.org footer.

[simi]

Is there link to https://twitter.com/rubygems_status anywhere on rubygems.org? 🤔 I did quick check and there is no reference to this link at rubygems.org and guides.rubygems.org. But maybe I have just missed it.

[andyw8]

It's linked from https://status.rubygems.org but it seems the Twitter feed includes updates that wouldn't appear on the status page, such as https://twitter.com/rubygems_status/status/1687571466618028033

[rubyFeedback]

Since https://twitter.com/rubygems_status is no longer viewable unless logged in to Twitter

This is, by the way, also affecting other projects outside of rubygems. For instance, on the
jruby homepage at https://www.jruby.org/, the twitter link there now says "Nothing to see
here - yet", so kind of nothing useful for the visitor. Not a great decision by Musk, IMO.

The twitter feed probably showed more information than status.rubygems.org, but I
don't remember. I guess it may be useful to specify what would be needed for a
"rubygems update" or something like that. I assume that rubygems.org already
has that information as-is, because it is published on twitter, as andyw8 pointed
out; so perhaps this could also be automatically published on rubygems.org
itself, if it was not written only manually (perhaps it could be a simple text
file that then gets automatically published on twitter and on rubygems.org).

The key idea here is, of course, to make it possible for people to get updates
and news about rubygems.org without depending on twitter. (I used to have
a twitter account, but I stopped using it when the censorship increased; I
think the news-feature is useful though, even if someone does not have a
twitter account so on that part I concur with andyw8.)

[andyw8]

I see RubyCentral is now on Bluesky, so I'm hoping that means we're a step closer to providing an alternative to Twitter for the updates.