While there are ~ millions of blog engines out there, what is the current state of commenting and trackbacks?
Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
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#12I want to start one myself. More of a public journal, but all the same. I keep having fits and starts and things distract me from the habit. That, and I'm never satisfied with my implementation in the end and I always want to try new or different things.
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#13If you want to setup a super minimal blog checkout Neat CSS.
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#14I want to start one myself. More of a public journal, but all the same. I keep having fits and starts and things distract me from the habit. That, and I'm never satisfied with my implementation in the end and I always want to try new or different things.
I standardized on pure HTML and CSS and wrote about why:
https://joeldare.com/why-im-writing-pure-html-and-css-in-202...
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#15Niche forums. Federated.
Does that actually exist? I know there are reddit type clones, but I'm yet to see anything that allows me to setup a niche server and only that.
Yeah, there quite a few. Like old-school phpBB is still around[1].
Or, take a look at the list on Wikipedia[2].
Not sure if you're looking for a hosted solution, though. A lot of those would involve you running your own server.
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s...
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#16> But with the revival of personal blogs well underway Is it? I haven't seen anyone in my circle return to blogging, nor kids of this generation. Discoverability is going to be a massive problem, since search engines are dead. Maybe word-of-mouth through social media is enough?
We could always resurrect WAIS and Gopher.
I sometimes compare Mediawiki vs SharePoint to Web x.0 vs WAIS n Gopher.
One is light on resources, storing just the information with some formatting hints, leaving presentation to standards and the other is SharePoint. The comparison is really about bloat, not functionality, but the two are intertwined.
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#17Isn't there a cycle - blogs, aggregators, email lists, back to blogs...?
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#18> But with the revival of personal blogs well underway Is it? I haven't seen anyone in my circle return to blogging, nor kids of this generation. Discoverability is going to be a massive problem, since search engines are dead. Maybe word-of-mouth through social media is enough?
The content will be discovered just fine. It'll get embedded in the LLMs on the next round of training. Won't be attributed to your blog of course, but an approximation to the information will still get out there.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does that actually exist? I know there are reddit type clones, but I'm yet to see anything that allows me to setup a niche server and only that.
Yeah, there quite a few. Like old-school phpBB is still around[1]. Or, take a look at the list on Wikipedia[2]. Not sure if you're looking for a hosted solution, though. A lot of those would involve you running your own server. [1] https://www.phpbb.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s...
How I miss my script kiddie days of being 15, downloading "nulled" versions of vBulletin off of Limewire and throwing them up on pocket money paid cPanel web hosting account waiting for it to upload on my parents 56K.
Exploit ridden PHPNuke & e107 CMS too.
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#20> But with the revival of personal blogs well underway Is it? I haven't seen anyone in my circle return to blogging, nor kids of this generation. Discoverability is going to be a massive problem, since search engines are dead. Maybe word-of-mouth through social media is enough?
I had Gemini copy a bunch of text from a personal blog yesterday to answer a query so the content will definitely get read