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+title: "Scaling back"
+date: 2022-07-24T11:23:20-07:00
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+For personal reasons, I am stepping away from or reducing my involvement in some communities to better focus on other things. You will likely hear from me less.
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+My site will probably update less frequently too. Some timed posts may fire, but I won't be actively writing much. I most likely won't [POSSE](https://indieweb.org/POSSE) those timed posts.
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+I'll probably be back eventually, but not for a while.