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Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Following on from this excellent article, would other HN users care to share the URLs of their personal webspaces? Mine is: http://www.jaruzel.com (yes, I know it's not SSL'd!)

I need to get around to writing more blog posts, as I always say: https://joealcorn.co.uk

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Just be careful to manage your expectations. This idea won't solve the central problem of the attention economy - low average attention per unit of content. Modern social networks are actually better at that, because they entice people to spend attention on lots of content. Getting hundreds of views on your YouTube video, Facebook status or Medium post is much easier than on your personal site. That's how the "new web" won creator mindshare. The "old web" will keep losing until it finds an answer to that.

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Following on from this excellent article, would other HN users care to share the URLs of their personal webspaces? Mine is: http://www.jaruzel.com (yes, I know it's not SSL'd!)

https://erik.itland.no

There's a mix of photos of street art, other things I've seen, a bit about technology etc.

I miss the old, quirky web and I'm trying to let this blog be old school.

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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post #4

Following on from this excellent article, would other HN users care to share the URLs of their personal webspaces? Mine is: http://www.jaruzel.com (yes, I know it's not SSL'd!)

I have over a decade of writing at https://sheep.horse/

HN readers will probably be most interested in https://sheep.horse/tagcloud.html#computing

edit: I also have a couple of projects to play with: https://sheep.horse/tagcloud.html#interactive

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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post #4

Following on from this excellent article, would other HN users care to share the URLs of their personal webspaces? Mine is: http://www.jaruzel.com (yes, I know it's not SSL'd!)

Maybe posting this will give that much-needed motivation to finish up on the two recent blog posts I've been postponing for over a month now.

https://lahteenlahti.com

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Following on from this excellent article, would other HN users care to share the URLs of their personal webspaces? Mine is: http://www.jaruzel.com (yes, I know it's not SSL'd!)

Sure! https://www.ft.io I use the awesome Lektor static site generator and publish to Netlify, which is one of the best products I’ve used in a long, long time.

I like your site, especially your recent advice about making static websites.

One question: I really like your Wave widget at the bottom of each page. How does the Wave mechanism work on the backend? It doesn't appear to send anything apart from setting a local cookie.

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Following on from this excellent article, would other HN users care to share the URLs of their personal webspaces? Mine is: http://www.jaruzel.com (yes, I know it's not SSL'd!)

Recently moved my page to Django, and redesigned it for minimalism. I feel good about it right now, but I'd happily take some professional feedback: https://bbenz.io

Re: Into the Personal-Website-Verse (2019)

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Just be careful to manage your expectations. This idea won't solve the central problem of the attention economy - low average attention per unit of content. Modern social networks are actually better at that, because they entice people to spend attention on lots of content. Getting hundreds of views on your YouTube video, Facebook status or Medium post is much easier than on your personal site. That's how the "new we…

It's not just the aggregation aspect or the built in audience that the centralized platforms offer. It's the simplicity. It is very easy to "publish" your own content.

Following a 90/9/1 rule [1], where most of the users are consumers, it becomes difficult for "average" people to contribute content when you've raised the bar so high that they need to have a personal site. That level of overhead will hinder many people. It's not just the technical aspect either -- just the problem of choosing a color scheme or layout is a roadblock to many people. When you can just type a post into a short input box or in a webform and just let Twitter and Facebook worry about the "publishing", that's a much lower bar to cross. And when you lower the cost of entry, you'll have significantly more participation. I think that's the main draw of the current centralized services -- the bar of entry is low enough that the proverbial mom or grandmother can now use Facebook (or whatever) to post their own content.

Unfortunately, that leads to one of the downsides of the centralized services, which was your point. Now that 9% of people who want to contribute content and learn about how to do it (design their site, wire up the services, etc...) now don't have as big of a potential audience.

Which I guess we have the same point, just from different angles (consumers vs producers).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)

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