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

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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 passthejoe »

dewey wrote: post #270
novok wrote: post #248

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Those are nerd only solutions. If anything will have mass market appeal and actually catch on with experts that are not nerds, it can't be nerd only.

There’s a lot of non nerd solutions. Ghost, Wordpress, Medium, Blogger, Tumblr are all very easy to Süd- platforms. There’s a variety of free and paid platforms. The existing solutions are not the problems.

I do have a Hugo blog, and I agree that pretty much all static-site generators are too nerdy for most potential users.

WordPress is still around, and I recommend it. It's more "social" than ever in some ways, and the built-in comments are looking better and better as the years go by. (I use Disqus to moderate the comments for more than a dozen blogs in one network, but for an individual blog, I prefer the native WP comments.)

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

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Post by qznc »

darekkay wrote: post #257
qznc wrote: post #182

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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

This is not discovering. This is drowning in content.

If i were looking for front end blogs, I'd say: Thanks, but I'll rely on some aggregator instead.

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

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Post by passthejoe »

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…

My 2000s Blogger sites are all still live. I've ported some of those posts to other sites, but most just live over at Blogger.

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

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Post by monksy »

At the moment blogs have been failed about a few things:

1. Walled gardens (this include medium). Basically they've self decided that content should be here and they keep your audience there. Also, they tend to self select what opinions the community is to keep. This is a huge concern for freedom of expression.

2. The networks aren't there. We need a way to have neutral aggrigation and federating against many other blogs for commenting, replying, and annotation of existing content. (Give people a reward for being in a community, reddit does this with karma, but they also try to wall off the users)

3. RSS has been badly treated. This is a great standard for syndicating updates to your channel.

4. Build good networks to remove the spam. Basically the baby was thrown out of the bathwater rather than to fix the problem.

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

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Post by passthejoe »

thereyougo wrote: post #31

The problem as I see it is the Google algorithm. It force content creators to write it in a certain way that in many cases might be way too long and not ’to the point’. I dont remember the last time I searched for something on Google and it showed me a high quality opinion article in a random blog. nowadays everything is around SEO and blogs, as much as I understand why google does that, I think it's the main reason…

For a long, long time, I have blogged without worrying about SEO or Google or even traffic. I write what I want. I don't look at analytics, and for my self-hosted sites, I don't have any analytics to look at.

Writing for SEO and trying to game Google is not interesting to me. There comes a point where the only think that keeps you going is the desire/compulsion to write.

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

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Post by rolleiflex »

polishdude20 wrote: post #285
volkk wrote: post #258

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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"

Yeah and when I think about writing about rehashing basic things, I realize why those basic things are so prevalent and why they actually shouldn't be rehashed. It's like a call to enlightenment.

The end result of any good writing process is a writer who does no longer need to write it in the first place.

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

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Post by slightwinder »

zhdc1 wrote: post #161
keenmaster wrote: post #112

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I’m not sure if the premise is correct here. What metric is Reddit being judged by? What if the various fashion subreddits, in aggregate, have more users, more content (both good and bad), and more innovation than websites like AskAndy? I suspect what you’re looking for is: 1. The intimate small town feel of the early internet, and 2. The higher average post quality (because of the type of person that both had intern…

The issue with Reddit is that there's little to no user engagement with older content. Comments on posts older than a day in pretty much every reasonably active subreddit are ignored. This is also an issue on HN. This kills informed discussion - some topics need more than one or two minutes of thought for a thoughtful and articulated response. This simply isn't possible when you know that the person you're replying t…

With modern forums the flow of discussion is different. If you have something for a dated discussion, you just open a new thread. Here on HN you often see those indirect responses happening.

Reddit on the other side used to have a better response-interface. You get a message for new responses and can discuss things over weeks and months if it just happen so. New redfit-interface killed yhis a bit.

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

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Post by naavis »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #260
naavis wrote: post #34

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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 th…

Thanks for the explanation. Sounds pretty awful. I mostly read smaller unmonetized blogs, so I have not bumped into this.
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