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Ask HN: Does your personal page get any interaction?

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Post by kcindric »

I'm slowly creating my website (using Hugo) were I can share my art and hobbies, practice writing in a non-native language (which is English) and have a slice of the Internet which I can call 'mine'.

Although it doesn't bother me much I was wondering what are other people experiences on having a website. Do you just have it without any particular interactions from other internet persons? Or you do have interactions and feedback to your content? Does it bother you if you don't get any hits or you maintain your website just for fun and you find it fulfilling?

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Post by derekzhouzhen »

Some interaction are very useful, such as comments. However, I won't allow 3rd party javascript on my websites. It is a problem for static sites; So I made https://roastidio.us for exactly this situation.

The idea is simple: You merely link to my site, and ask your visitors to leave comments there. Comments will be emailed to you, with user identity redacted and rate limited. You can reply to the constructive comments on my site and ignore the trolls.

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Post by arthurdd »

My site is mainly for my own entertainment, and I've only been contacted a handful of times with nearly 20 years running it.

It is probably helpful to present a competent image when job searching. It shows you can develop and run a site, and that you have interests of your own.

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Post by y42 »

arthurdd wrote: post #3

My site is mainly for my own entertainment, and I've only been contacted a handful of times with nearly 20 years running it. It is probably helpful to present a competent image when job searching. It shows you can develop and run a site, and that you have interests of your own.

Same here. I don't do any SEO, so my site runs under the radar and that is a good thing, because more traffic means more responsibility. It's just for showing off my skills, like when I'm looking for a new job, and playing with technologies. Right now every now and then someone leaves a comment, but that's it.

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Post by qudat »

I wrote an article about this recently.

I used to write for other people to read it. I learned after awhile that writing for other people diluted my thoughts and resulted in me not having a clear voice in my writing. Something about accommodating the average reader that really suppressed my thoughts. Now I write for myself and if it resonates with others then so be it.

The result is that my articles have hit the FP multiple times since the mental switch.

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Post by Lacerda69 »

>you maintain your website just for fun and you find it fulfilling?

This.

Also I use it as a public repository of information I either often forget and have to look up again or want to have accessible everywhere easily (for example recipes, restaurant recommendations and git conmands)

Ultimalely I just like tinkering on a website without pressure to perform well in aspects that are business relevant.

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Post by _bramses »

Yes and no!

Case 1: a few posts of mine go viral and land on the front page on HN or Reddit and I get a few to ten thousand ish views. Those days I get three to four emails from people on my contact form and we have a brief convo

Case 2: I have a few tutorials that have been linked back across the web and receive daily traffic from Google.

Outside of those two cases, most of my posts get little to no traction. My analytics are public [1] so you can see an example if you’re curious!

[1] - https://plausible.io/bramadams.dev?period=year

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Post by kradeelav »

The only interaction my art page gets is a little javascript hit counter like the old web used to have - just knowing there's a certain number of people in the thousands* that have seen it at all brightens the mood.

Glad you're making a personal page for your art, by the way. :) Social media to a vast majority of artists is toxic, and there's a spark of individuality in personal pages that many people are hungry for. I'll be checking out yours.

(*I'm sure a large number are bots, but since I get some lovely personalized emails from the humans, the number itself doesn't matter in the end of the day.)

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