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Blogs are still a thing, and blogs have always been a thing. They didn't go anywhere. My technical blog is thriving. People come back to old posts constantly. Something I posted 10 months ago is still my top performing post. Social media posts are ephemeral & if something happens to your content - it's gone. Host your own blog, control your content. My social media posts may max out at 500-1000 views but my page views have a consistent baseline of 30k/a month. And I haven't posted in a bit. 11 comments
@seaotta I started blogging again earlier this year because I wanted to put all my content in one place, keep an history of all of my content that I used to write on my different social medias presences. It's been a motivational kick-in-the-ass to push me to write again, and I'm quite happy about using my blog again :)  @sekhmetdesign @seaotta yeah, I know I have some slapping #birdsite threads buried in that archive. Just, digging through would be such a slog.  @seaotta The most visited post on my blog is 8 years old. I'd have to look into db for precise numbers, I've implemented analytics in a way that don't give me numbers, just what people like, it's much better for my mental health. @seaotta blogs are good yes, and WordPress even has activitypub support now! For anyone with something longform to say it's ideal.  @seaotta Totally agree. My personal website recently passed over one-million total views. It's one of my most successful online personal projects and I totally recommend it. Rewarding too. It is surprising to see people responding to old posts here. Like year old posts. I always wonder how they stumbled upon them. |
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@seaotta @adactio I've got a quiz on my site that's over 20 years old & had 100K views in the past year, dismayed when I see people shovelling out amazing work & not giving it a permanent home