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assuming you know what the URL

This is the tricky bit thou and will come down to chicken and egg problem of adopting some convention

Actually it's super-easy, barely an inconvenience.

Dedicate a portion of your site to notifications. Allocate the URL there with a blank page that has a meta 404 tag or something.

When blog post is live, replace the meta 404 with a meta redirect to the real permalink.

You can do an all-manual URL shortener for QR codes the same way. That means you can also have a QR code for this kind of subscription, which is cool

How does the user agent know this is 2 of 4 or 2 of 2

Anyways the convention isn’t too hard it’s the adoption by authors and software that will be tricky

Ah yeah, simple manual methods are tight.

This is the tricky bit thou and will come down to chicken and egg problem of adopting some convention

Sure, there needs to be a standard for this, but it could be as simple as using a new rel value, say, “futurecontent”, and title (when used with <link>) or content (when used with <a>) giving the description of what will be found at the link when it is ready.

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