If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
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Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#2Blogs are still there. Try search engines which discourage cluttered web design to find them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764
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Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#3blogs are more alive than ever.
they make up a smaller % of the internet, but that's because the use-base has increased.
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#4They never went away. There are more of them and they are better than before.
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#5Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23205588 (May 16, 2020, 614 comments)
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#6Well, blogs are still very much there. I began blogging in 2006 and I still continue to write blog posts, mostly to take notes, share my thoughts, etc. I still follow my favourite bloggers via RSS feeds. I don't think the culture of blogging ever went away. The blogosphere along with its tag clouds are still very much there.
I think what has changed in the last two decades or so is that a lot of new users have come on the Internet and this new generation of users spend most of their time in walled gardens thereby making the bloggers look like a small minority.
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#7How do you all discover blogs?
I used to discover blogs via the Yahoo Directory, blog rolls (where we mention others' blogs as external links to follow up), Live Journal's listing, and cross-referencing of blog posts. Google search used to surface blog posts too.
Now it's all on Medium - where I don't grudge those who want reliable hosting+discoverability and want to get paid for content, and where Medium charges for this. But I dislike that the content is "locked up" at Medium. I don't quite know how to explain this dislike, and I welcome any points of view that might help make this dislike go away.
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#8How do you all discover blogs? I used to discover blogs via the Yahoo Directory, blog rolls (where we mention others' blogs as external links to follow up), Live Journal's listing, and cross-referencing of blog posts. Google search used to surface blog posts too. Now it's all on Medium - where I don't grudge those who want reliable hosting+discoverability and want to get paid for content, and where Medium charges for…
I have discovered many blogs reading HN...
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#9Blogs are still there. Try search engines which discourage cluttered web design to find them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550764 and https://wiby.me/
Both are very good for finding blogs about topics like diet, exercise, mindfulness and other topics which have been SEO’d to death on the major search engines.
Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)
#10How do you all discover blogs? I used to discover blogs via the Yahoo Directory, blog rolls (where we mention others' blogs as external links to follow up), Live Journal's listing, and cross-referencing of blog posts. Google search used to surface blog posts too. Now it's all on Medium - where I don't grudge those who want reliable hosting+discoverability and want to get paid for content, and where Medium charges for…
I have discovered many blogs reading HN...
Yeah -- off the top of my head:
danluu.com, plover.com, ciechanow.ski, essays by pg and many others have very high quality writing and are insightful.
I don't accept there is a shortage of blogs.