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What I learned in ten years of blogging

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Re: What I learned in ten years of blogging

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Post by veddox »

KajMagnus wrote: post #137
veddox wrote: post #103

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Just out of interest, how active was your blog? (hits/day?) I don't have a commenting feature on my blog - partly because I haven't gotten around to setting it up yet, partly because I'm worried about potential spam. But I would like to get some feedback from my readers, so that's a bit of a conundrum...

I built a Disqus like commenting system, where you can configure manual review of [the first X posts a new person posts at your blog]. If they write say 5 make-sense interesting things, hopefully thereafter it's ok to auto approve their subsequent posts. — How does this affect (if at all) how you feel about spam? (Here it is: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments ) If you think someone might become a spammer, and is…

That looks good! However, I already had my sights set on Isso (https://posativ.org/isso/). My static site generator coleslaw (https://github.com/kingcons/coleslaw) already offers a plugin for this, so it is a more natural choice...

Re: What I learned in ten years of blogging

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Post by darekkay »

asciimo wrote: post #94

What's the best way to hear from your audience? Comments on the blog (e.g. disqus), or Twitter? Managing spam is such a burden that hosting your own feedback facility is risky.

I guess it mostly depends on your audience and traffic. I've blogged about different ways to handle user feedback [0] (in the context of static sites). If you don't like to self-host comments, there are many third-party or off-site alternatives. For a developer blog, you might even use something like GitHub issues.

[0] https://darekkay.com/blog/static-site-comments/

Re: What I learned in ten years of blogging

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Post by 0xferruccio »

iamthirsty wrote: post #160
0xferruccio wrote: post #138

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So as you're 21 your advice on not listening 21 year olds is terrible. But then I'm 21 too, so this is recursively bad

Absolutely. I meant no disrespect — you’ve surely done more than I in this space. I just recognize, however generally, how terrible those in our age group are at looking at everything objectively, no matter how intelligent or successful. You may have incredible blogging experience, but life experience colors all subjects. A lot of advice you gave, from promoting, to design, and even the defining of an audience, is wh…

Didn't mean to be disrespectful either, I was joking.

I think that blogging is kind of like painting, coding, entrepreneurship or any other creative activity. Everybody that makes it starts giving contradictory advice on what worked for them, which is all good. As an individual your job is to make your own decisions. Having a lot of advices to pick from can help a lot in my opinion

BTW You seem like an interesting person, hit me up!

Re: What I learned in ten years of blogging

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Post by coldtea »

baby wrote: post #146
coldtea wrote: post #74

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Well, Daring Fireball hardly writes 1-2 posts a month (and usually small), and yet..

That's not true at all. He writes several posts a day. https://daringfireball.net/

That's no true at all. Where did you get that?

He averages about 5 posts a month, and has months where he writes 1 post:

https://daringfireball.net/archive/

Re: What I learned in ten years of blogging

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Post by johnchristopher »

baby wrote: post #63

I find this article meh. I've been blogging for something like 15 years so here's my take: * If you've been wanting to blog, stop pissing around, open a blog on wordpress.com and start writing. That's my first advice to anyone. Don't waste time on the technicalities, just write. You can move your blog to another platform later. * Be regular. This is hard. I fail this rule most of the time. But a successful blog is a…

Sound advice for an amateur blog (aka not a blog made up by a company or a PR machine).

Re: What I learned in ten years of blogging

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Post by 1123581321 »

coldtea wrote: post #164
baby wrote: post #146

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That's not true at all. He writes several posts a day. https://daringfireball.net/

That's no true at all. Where did you get that? He averages about 5 posts a month, and has months where he writes 1 post: https://daringfireball.net/archive/

Click the RSS feed or the homepage. The archive is only to essays. The more frequent link summaries keep his audience engaged between essays.

Re: What I learned in ten years of blogging

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Post by KajMagnus »

veddox wrote: post #161
KajMagnus wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I built a Disqus like commenting system, where you can configure manual review of [the first X posts a new person posts at your blog]. If they write say 5 make-sense interesting things, hopefully thereafter it's ok to auto approve their subsequent posts. — How does this affect (if at all) how you feel about spam? (Here it is: https://www.talkyard.io/blog-comments ) If you think someone might become a spammer, and is…

That looks good! However, I already had my sights set on Isso ( https://posativ.org/isso/ ). My static site generator coleslaw ( https://github.com/kingcons/coleslaw ) already offers a plugin for this, so it is a more natural choice...

Coleslaw seems to have many nice features. Hadn't heard about it before
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