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Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

crazygringo wrote: post #154

This article makes... no sense to me. Blogs are still around, everywhere, and show up easily in search results if a post matches a relevant query. And bloggers still list other blogs in sidebars. I genuinely don't understand the author's complaint. The only thing I can imagine is that there are a lot more alternatives for self-expression on the internet now, e.g. Instagram, Twitter, podcasts, etc. So blogs are perhap…

> Blogs ... show up easily in search results if a post matches a relevant query.

No, they don't. This comes down to two main changes in how Google operates: 1) Google no longer respects search operators so that users can get fine-grained results, and 2) Google has chosen to progressively delist old content, even if many blog posts from the early millennium remain just as relevant today because no one has posted at length on the subject in the years since.

Thus, people are unable to find a great deal of content through Google even if they search for the exact strings which appear in those posts. You might see some blogs in search results, but they are a miniscule representation of the whole blog ecosystem.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by podestapizza »

neonate wrote: post #38

https://web.archive.org/web/20200516183004/http://tttthis.co...

I made a website that does as the article mentions: you can immediately blog with just an e-mail. It also supports HTML, CSS and Javascript for instant hosting.

https://podesta.pizza/

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by NicoJuicy »

progre wrote: post #213
NicoJuicy wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No bookmarks of your own? Eg. check http://handlr.sapico.me/Item/Create on top right (The bookmarklet). On mobile ( Android), I share websites to Tasker that then open handlr.sapico.me/Item/Create?Title=%1&Url=%2 I then add the tags and then create the item. I think it's the only way to easily bookmark websites. Note: If a url is filled in, but not a title. Then on focus-out the title is fetched from the page and fil…

Is it supposed to create a bookmark in the browser? I can't see anything happen when I click the Bookmarklet link

You can add it as a bookmark.

When you want to save a page, you then click on the bookmark ( which contains JavaScript)

It will get the information of the current page and execute it ( check the js code behind the bookmarklet)

Ps. HN has this too

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by gfody »

DoreenMichele wrote: post #185

But Blogger was shut down by Google years ago Nope. It still exists and I use it. And I'm given hell for it. The degree to which my blogging gets so much hostility from people does not mesh with articles like this one claiming they wish blogs still existed. I can't get traffic for my blogs. No one shares them but me and then I get crap for doing that. If you want that kind of internet, foster it. Look in the mirror.…

in other words Google shut it the fuck down, you forgot to abandon ship man. fwiw all that hostility is likely just automation shaping the sentiment curve around and away from your signal - nothing to take personally.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by arthurcolle »

podestapizza wrote: post #252
neonate wrote: post #38

https://web.archive.org/web/20200516183004/http://tttthis.co...

I made a website that does as the article mentions: you can immediately blog with just an e-mail. It also supports HTML, CSS and Javascript for instant hosting. https://podesta.pizza/

Is the URL supposed to be funny?

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by wonder_er »

I feel similarly to this author. A few weeks ago, I built a small tool that surfaces submitted blogs to a "Ask HN" thread.

It's delightful! I've discovered so many cool blogs! It made building the tool take twice as long as it should have, as I kept finding myself reading extensively from a delightful personal blog.

Check it out!

https://random-hn-blog.herokuapp.com/

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by darekkay »

qznc wrote: post #182
crazygringo wrote: post #154

This article makes... no sense to me. Blogs are still around, everywhere, and show up easily in search results if a post matches a relevant query. And bloggers still list other blogs in sidebars. I genuinely don't understand the author's complaint. The only thing I can imagine is that there are a lot more alternatives for self-expression on the internet now, e.g. Instagram, Twitter, podcasts, etc. So blogs are perhap…

Could give examples how finding blogs is easy and "lots of lists out there of people's favorites"?

Here's a huge list of front-end related blogs: https://github.com/impressivewebs/frontend-feeds

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by volkk »

polishdude20 wrote: post #225
aazaa wrote: post #178

The best way to bring back blogs is to start with your own. It looks like this is the author's fourth post and s/he hit a home run with the top post on HN. But that's rarely how things work. The thing few people tell you when you start blogging is how futile it will seem - for a long, long time. You'll start by posting something you put a lot of work into. You'll publish, thinking of all the comments and emails you'l…

I often notice when I start writing on a particular topic, I learn more about my thoughts and opinions of it and realize my thoughts are wrong or not really novel. Halfway in I give up since I feel like, "oh, this actually isn't really adding anything new to the conversation". Then I leave with a new humbleness about my beliefs but also a sense of "when am I actually going to know enough to warrant writing about it?"…

thats a great mindset, but its also funny because a lot of blog posts that do well are about rehashing basic things like "why open offices suck", or "why i chose node instead of ruby"

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by DoreenMichele »

gfody wrote: post #254
DoreenMichele wrote: post #185

But Blogger was shut down by Google years ago Nope. It still exists and I use it. And I'm given hell for it. The degree to which my blogging gets so much hostility from people does not mesh with articles like this one claiming they wish blogs still existed. I can't get traffic for my blogs. No one shares them but me and then I get crap for doing that. If you want that kind of internet, foster it. Look in the mirror.…

in other words Google shut it the fuck down, you forgot to abandon ship man. fwiw all that hostility is likely just automation shaping the sentiment curve around and away from your signal - nothing to take personally.

Google did not shut it down.

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2018/11/not-closing-...

It is maintained and has new templates. I am in the process of setting up a new blog on it currently because I have a new idea.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs

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Post by Mediterraneo10 »

naavis wrote: post #34
cm2187 wrote: post #18

I would bring back RSS. The good parts of twitter (you can follow what lots of people have to say and aggregate it in a single feed) without the bad parts (character limits, "you stink" and other snarky comments, control of a centralised platform over who can say what, etc).

I don't think RSS has gone anywhere. Most half-decent blogs still support it, I think.

RSS feeds are still widely generated, but they are not encouraged and overt links to them have been removed. I know that many proprietors of monetized blogs keep RSS feed generation turned on because they think it is important for SEO, but they don't want readers using it because it clashes with their monetization strategy -- users are supposed to be drawn straight to the main website where they can then be upsold through popup modals and shit. I recall one blog where even mentioning in the comments feed that you subscribe to the site through RSS would lead to a permaban.
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