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I've been wondering about this as well. I just started out blogging (just a personal blog with a ton of opinions and software stuff) and have no idea if it gets

I've been wondering about this as well. I just started out blogging (just a personal blog with a ton of opinions and software stuff) and have no idea if it gets an audience or not . I don't really care if I do, besides the feeling that if I look at the stats, it equals talking to a wall sometimes.

onli 10y ago
But if I see that right, your Blog doesn't have comments (the one linked in your profile). How is that supposed to feel otherwise if those are not enabled?
- guycastell 10y ago
  Perhaps my "talking to a wall" metaphor was stupid. What I meant was that I'd like to see that people actually read whatever I have to say, instead of, well, not reading - in a way that a wall can't hear you - an actual response however isn't needed. It may also be because I don't have one exact subject, but regardless, too early to tell just yet.
  - onli 10y ago
    Add them. I'm blogging since 9 years now, and I find comments to be incredibly important. If you are doing a private tech blog, the people you want to reach are people that want to follow you personally. With those you really want to talk, and an occasional comment helps a lot against that impression that no one is reading it. Even if it is just once a month. Though the most helpful thing for a blog such as this is to write it for yourself. But even then, some external feedback helps.
discreditable 10y ago
I'm another wall talker. Having managed forums in the past, I don't want to have to manage comments ever again. I blog for myself when I want to scratch that itch. When others find it useful to them, that's awesome. I don't run analytics other than Cloudflare, so I can see that people are hitting the site, but not what they're hitting.
- guycastell 10y ago
  Yeah, not a fan of comments either as they usually (on blogs at least) tend to be of very low quality (or spam entirely). It's not about feedback at all, it's that someone, somewhere, for who knows what reason, actually reads the stuff. I use self-hosted Piwik for analytics. It's pretty cool.
  - discreditable 10y ago
    For feedback I have an email address (web@domain) as the author on all of my posts. To my surprise I really don't get much spam. However, I have received some useful comments and feedback thanks to it.

onli 10y ago

But if I see that right, your Blog doesn't have comments (the one linked in your profile). How is that supposed to feel otherwise if those are not enabled?

guycastell 10y ago
Perhaps my "talking to a wall" metaphor was stupid. What I meant was that I'd like to see that people actually read whatever I have to say, instead of, well, not reading - in a way that a wall can't hear you - an actual response however isn't needed. It may also be because I don't have one exact subject, but regardless, too early to tell just yet.
- onli 10y ago
  Add them. I'm blogging since 9 years now, and I find comments to be incredibly important. If you are doing a private tech blog, the people you want to reach are people that want to follow you personally. With those you really want to talk, and an occasional comment helps a lot against that impression that no one is reading it. Even if it is just once a month. Though the most helpful thing for a blog such as this is to write it for yourself. But even then, some external feedback helps.

discreditable 10y ago

I'm another wall talker. Having managed forums in the past, I don't want to have to manage comments ever again. I blog for myself when I want to scratch that itch. When others find it useful to them, that's awesome. I don't run analytics other than Cloudflare, so I can see that people are hitting the site, but not what they're hitting.

guycastell 10y ago
Yeah, not a fan of comments either as they usually (on blogs at least) tend to be of very low quality (or spam entirely). It's not about feedback at all, it's that someone, somewhere, for who knows what reason, actually reads the stuff. I use self-hosted Piwik for analytics. It's pretty cool.
- discreditable 10y ago
  For feedback I have an email address (web@domain) as the author on all of my posts. To my surprise I really don't get much spam. However, I have received some useful comments and feedback thanks to it.