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Blogging Is Not Dead

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Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by jeremyperson »

PakG1 wrote: post #79
foob wrote: post #14

If you want to see more high quality blog posts, then I highly recommend taking actions to help promote and encourage them. Sign up for a mailing list or subscribe to an RSS feed when you find a blog that consistently produces quality material. Post new or old content on Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, Twitter, and other communities where you think they would be a good fit. Upvote and retweet quality content that you…

What do you recommend as a good RSS reader these days? Can't say that I found one I like.

Have you tried Feedly (https://feedly.com/)?

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by cageface »

Content on open platforms like blogs and podcasts has two serious handicaps. First, it doesn't have any built in system for liking, commenting on and sharing content. Second, there is no low-friction way to monetize it except for advertising.

I don't see any easy, scalable solutions to these problems but until they're solved open platforms will cater to niche audiences.

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by mjrbrennan »

PakG1 wrote: post #79
foob wrote: post #14

If you want to see more high quality blog posts, then I highly recommend taking actions to help promote and encourage them. Sign up for a mailing list or subscribe to an RSS feed when you find a blog that consistently produces quality material. Post new or old content on Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, Twitter, and other communities where you think they would be a good fit. Upvote and retweet quality content that you…

What do you recommend as a good RSS reader these days? Can't say that I found one I like.

Not OP, but I use Fiery Feeds on IOS and I'm happy with it.

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by prebrov »

filmgirlcw wrote: post #53

Blogging isn't dead but blog discovery basically is. Fifteen years ago (through about 2009, I would say -- about the time Facebook demonstrably took over MySpace), there were tons of services and startups built around blog discovery. And even into the early 2010s, Tumblr was still a thriving community that paid host to many different different subcultures and demographics (whereas today, Tumblr is largely fandom). Bu…

Missing the Mobile boat is a major blow to blogging, the way I see it.

Self-hosted blogging had passed on the format of ad-hoc notes while on the move, and basically ignored the entire category of mobile content creation.

It’s odd and sad to see that the desktop-first authoring trend is actually getting re-enforced these days in indie blogging community, as the tools are getting less and less mobile-friendly (another git-driven file-based Markdown static site generator, anyone?)

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by muppetman »

thomasahle wrote: post #34
foob wrote: post #14

If you want to see more high quality blog posts, then I highly recommend taking actions to help promote and encourage them. Sign up for a mailing list or subscribe to an RSS feed when you find a blog that consistently produces quality material. Post new or old content on Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, Twitter, and other communities where you think they would be a good fit. Upvote and retweet quality content that you…

Interesting, I didn't know about the second chance queue. This appears to be the best source of information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 Personally I was sad when my tiny python chess engine Sunfish [1] didn't make it past the two-three upvotes stage. However about half a year later somebody else submitted it and it got a lot of traction. I wonder how accepted it is to resubmit the same, or a versio…

Ha! I was just goggling furiously yesterday to remember the name of Sunfish. I had a .py called "chess.py" on a server. Not anywhere in the .py file is there a URL or a name or an email.

Anyway after cutting and pasting bits of code into Google I finally turned up the github page. You should put some (basic) info into each file you've got there.

Anyway Sunfish is cool, thanks.

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by muppetman »

PakG1 wrote: post #79
foob wrote: post #14

If you want to see more high quality blog posts, then I highly recommend taking actions to help promote and encourage them. Sign up for a mailing list or subscribe to an RSS feed when you find a blog that consistently produces quality material. Post new or old content on Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, Twitter, and other communities where you think they would be a good fit. Upvote and retweet quality content that you…

What do you recommend as a good RSS reader these days? Can't say that I found one I like.

TinyTinyRSS

I have an instance I host myself that I'm happy to create accounts on if you want to try before you host yourself.

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by thomasahle »

muppetman wrote: post #85
thomasahle wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting, I didn't know about the second chance queue. This appears to be the best source of information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 Personally I was sad when my tiny python chess engine Sunfish [1] didn't make it past the two-three upvotes stage. However about half a year later somebody else submitted it and it got a lot of traction. I wonder how accepted it is to resubmit the same, or a versio…

Ha! I was just goggling furiously yesterday to remember the name of Sunfish. I had a .py called "chess.py" on a server. Not anywhere in the .py file is there a URL or a name or an email. Anyway after cutting and pasting bits of code into Google I finally turned up the github page. You should put some (basic) info into each file you've got there. Anyway Sunfish is cool, thanks.

But then the number of lines would increase :-D

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by ipiz0618 »

Didn't think blogging even dying given the number of high quality blog posts from personal blogs / Medium on HN. Some dev.to posts really resemble blog posts as well.

Maybe it's a developer specific culture?

Re: Blogging Is Not Dead

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Post by shams93 »

foob wrote: post #14

If you want to see more high quality blog posts, then I highly recommend taking actions to help promote and encourage them. Sign up for a mailing list or subscribe to an RSS feed when you find a blog that consistently produces quality material. Post new or old content on Hacker News, Reddit, Lobsters, Twitter, and other communities where you think they would be a good fit. Upvote and retweet quality content that you…

Yeah being buried by the web is a major problem for all creatives not just bloggers. Amazing music for example that has only 20 followers on YouTube. It's so easy for very high quality work to get buried to death we don't think of the web as an engine for waste but it is.
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