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 @vga256 I fully agree. I much prefer those homepages over social media posts. I just have the feeling that the homepages didn’t quite accomplish the connecting. (I also prefer writing on my own website, though, and it’s a static page with stuff that matters to me, so I’m biased ☺: https://www.draketo.de ) 6 comments
@vga256 Actually social media also did not lead to long-lasting friendships for me (also not today), but I know it’s different for others. They rather led to me finding interesting people, and friendships started on other platforms I found that way. IRC, email lists and forums did, though.  @vga256 gladly! Though bilingual parts are less structured than before. On old websites I had actual parts split by language. Now I mostly have some articles in German, some in English, and I collect the most important ones in sections by language. That means that it is necessary for readers to ignore the parts in languages they don’t understand. Also I have to start creating link-lists of other pages again. Currently all I have is “important articles elsewhere” and lists of links per topic. |
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@ArneBab you’re right. it’s interesting that they didn’t. i’ve had plenty of e-mails about my homepages over the years, but none of them resulted in long lasting friendships. there is ONE exception to that - for me at least - blogs. I ended up having a few 15+ year friendships out of the mid 2000s blogging era. i guess those would be considered social media now - but at the time they felt more like homepages :)