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Another thread on the front page right now is talking about how it's very difficult to get views on your blogs now. And I've felt the same. 5-10 years ago I us
by kinkrtyavimoodh 9y ago
Another thread on the front page right now is talking about how it's very difficult to get views on your blogs now. And I've felt the same.
5-10 years ago I used to get 2-3 digit views on my posts. And I used to use Wordpress / Blogger and the like.
Then, when it became fashionable, I spent a lot of time (at least 20-30 hrs, and mind you this was not the geeky kind of work, it was like refactoring code using just grep) converting the blog to one of those static generators, and I suspect that I spent more time migrating all posts than the TOTAL TIME all readers combined have spent on my blog since then.
Now I am almost regretting migrating and definitely have no interest whatsoever in spending any more time doing DevOps for the blog.
- Viper007Bond 9y ago> definitely have no interest whatsoever in spending any more time doing DevOps for the blog. Honestly that's why I use a managed blogging host. I have better things to do with my time, such as writing content.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 9y agoYeah I realized that for the level of readership my blog has, even the time I put in writing a post is probably not worth it, let alone writing template files and figuring out the idiosyncrasies of the templating tool of the day (which almost always has negligible documentation)
- Viper007Bond 9y agoYou gotta start somewhere. Write quality content and the viewers will hopefully come.
- NetOpWibby 9y agoFor some reason, I'm getting 30+ hits a day on my blog (from Russia) for a post I made about dealing with APFS issues. It's a tutorial so there's that. I used to use static generators but I like what I can do with Express more. I now have a custom built static site generator based on Express.
- rz2k 9y agoI'm not sure whether you're saying the hits or your blog is from Russia. If you are trying to figure out why you're getting Russian visitors, Yandex Webmaster looks like it serves the same purpose as Google Analytics.