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10! Years! You kept it going for so long and shut it down. I guess you grew the blog in a different era (internet time). Can you give more info on how many pe

• Udo 10y ago
  > You kept it going for so long and shut it down. Sometimes it's just time to move on. In the early days things were different, everybody had a blog, and you had no trouble making mutual connections. I met interesting people, had interesting discussions, sometimes you'd meet fellow bloggers at events and find out you're subscribed to each other. One time, I spent a week of my holidays at a famous tech blogger's house, on a whim, even though I had never met the guy before. People moved on to other platforms, but I never built a social presence, nor did I do anything to really grow my audience. > Can you give more info on how many people you had and how it tapered off? Traffic wasn't that great by modern standards. According to Google Analytics, a good post would generate maybe 10-20k within the first month, and then taper off sharply. A bad post would not generate more than a few hundred eyeballs. My stuff was never monetized, so I didn't track visitors that well. Sometimes I saw there had been a crazy spike like months ago ;) > If you wanted engagement, can you have added engagement features? It's a matter of commitment. If I ever start anything again, that would definitely be a focus.