If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020) • Hacker News Board

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by hopesthoughts » Sat, Oct 02, 2021, 6:27 PM UTC

tablespoonsruby wrote: post #244

aembleton wrote: post #128

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I don't understand how RSS is too personal. An RSS feed of a blog is usually the same for all readers of the blog.

Maybe they mean that since there are many different feed readers a person could use, a blog can't have a "Click here to subscribe via RSS" link? Most feed readers will have a bookmarklet for 1-click subscribing, but the blog owner doesn't have the ability to make a prominent "call to action"-style button.

Sure they can, well they can have a link that brings up the feed anyway. What the browser does with it is a different story, and that depends on whether RSS preview extensions are installed. Copying and pasting that URL wherever it needs to go isn't all that complicated.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by hopesthoughts » Sat, Oct 02, 2021, 7:14 PM UTC

FlyingSnake wrote: post #174

d3nj4l wrote: post #56

As a minor counterpoint: I've come to dread blogs and newsletters because so many of them are written by grind culture freaks who only write faux-insightful SEO'd content as a way to build an audience to sell snake oil to. These days the only blogs I trust are the ones I see on the top of HN or lobsters, which is unfortunate because I have interests beyond tech and I find it very, very difficult to find good blogs I…

“Most books should have been an article, most articles should’ve been a tweet.” Blogging just for the sake of blogging is what caused their decline in the first place. If the blogpost can’t be easily understood within first few lines, it’s a wasted opportunity. The a reason Morgan House, Derek Sivers are still relevant.

That's putting too much in Twitter. What if it disappears one day?

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by hopesthoughts » Sat, Oct 02, 2021, 7:15 PM UTC

fallat wrote: post #64

d3nj4l wrote: post #56

As a minor counterpoint: I've come to dread blogs and newsletters because so many of them are written by grind culture freaks who only write faux-insightful SEO'd content as a way to build an audience to sell snake oil to. These days the only blogs I trust are the ones I see on the top of HN or lobsters, which is unfortunate because I have interests beyond tech and I find it very, very difficult to find good blogs I…

I feel like web rings really resolved this issue.

I wish web rings were more of a thing. I mean sure they exist, but they aren't universally used like they were 20 years ago.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by hopesthoughts » Sat, Oct 02, 2021, 8:07 PM UTC

buildsjets wrote: post #224

orndorffgrant wrote: post #143

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You should tell your old school friend that their voicemail is full. At least with my carrier, I can only have like ~20 voicemails sitting around. I listen to every voicemail I get but my voicemail inbox filled up and I didn't realize it was full for years (there was no notification or anything). To make space I had to actively go delete voicemails. Of course, deleting them just sent them to a "deleted" folder, which…

You should realize that some people intentionally allow or cause their voicemail to fill so that callers can't leave additional messages. I certainly do. I have no intention of EVER checking my voicemail, so why would I want to leave callers with a false impression that their message will be heard?

I do this myself, but I have one person who insists on leaving messages if she can't talk to me right that second.

Re: If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)

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Post by hopesthoughts » Sat, Oct 02, 2021, 8:57 PM UTC

mkr-hn wrote: post #125

nly wrote: post #78

One thing I love about (most) blogs is that every post has a timestamp. Nothing worse than finding a useful article online, particularly with facts and figures in them, with no bloody timestamp

A weird advice worm ate its way through the blogosphere in the late 2000s and early 2010s that made people think that if content was "evergreen," it didn't need a time stamp. The reality is that even the best advice has a context of time and place, and translating it forward requires knowing that context. Some people still follow that advice, or don't even know about timestamps and just grabbed the first theme they l…

This is one of my big problems with WP, and I've been using it for like 16 years now. Most themes don't support timestamps. In fact, I'm not even sure I've ever used one.