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Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by chistev » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 2:25 PM UTC

Pooge wrote: post #67

chistev wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can donate here - https://buymeacoffee.com/chistev12 I don't have a RSS feed but I have a newsletter with a subscribe button. What do you mean by posts are not links? You mean you can't click on them to get to the detail page? Edit: What's wrong with my Twitter account?

> What do you mean by posts are not links? Not GP, but he is right; the behavior of your website is semantically incorrect. Looks like you redirect the users to your blog posts by using instead of . I also agree that your website should absolutely not require JavaScript to work. Clicking on links is something that is possible with 0 lines of JavaScript. > I don't have a RSS feed but I have a newsletter with a subscri…

RSS feed added, and buttons changed to a href tags.

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by _bramses » Mon, Feb 17, 2025, 8:04 AM UTC

I recently changed my thought process on the responsibility of readers and writers. I think it is the responsibility of the writer to say something interesting, and then publish said interesting thing somewhere where it can be reached by readers. I think it’s an element of the modern freneticism of the Internet that we expect instant eyeballs.

Old writing is constantly reinvigorated by new readers. In fact, that is the only way that it can continue to live. It is the responsibility of the reader to decide whether a piece of writing is important or not in their context.

As such, I’ve been blogging quite a bit. Because posting on a blog allows for the critical mass of future readers. Anything interesting that I happen to say can be found through a medium that reaches billions of people.

Today, or in the future.

HTTP is basically the printing press. And my website is my media company.

Just because billions of people aren’t consistently reading what’s written, doesn’t mean that the writer has lost their responsibility to write.

Re: Why blog if nobody reads it?

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Post by brisray » Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 2:23 AM UTC

renegat0x0 wrote: post #215

Personal sites are dead because the Internet search is broken. I personal sites could easily be found, and filtered, or sorted to provide interesting ones, then Personal sites would be booming. That is why I created my own domains list: https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database It contains links with properties in JSON. I can find personal things using "personal" tags. I can filter them using numerical "pa…

Personal sites ARE getting more difficult to find, more than ever, but there's thousands of them around.

It's why I upkeep a list of current webrings - https://brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm , a list of personal web directories - https://brisray.com/web/indiedirs.htm - and "alternative" search engines that can find them - https://brisray.com/web/altsearch.htm