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Why draft-default beats publish-all

2025-07-22 160 views
Why draft-default beats publish-all

A publishing policy we wish we had written on day one of the import tools.

Publish-all feels productive for an afternoon. Then the archive fills with near-duplicates and half-parsed pages. Draft-default feels slower, then suddenly healthier: humans promote the pieces that deserve a URL.

On this hub, automated imports land as drafts unless a feed is explicitly trusted and the content clears length / rewrite checks. That is not bureaucracy. It is how you keep a public library from becoming a junk drawer.

Keywords: editorial policy, drafts, automation