I've published a couple conference papers. I found the process to be slow and frustrating. The quality of feedback from reviewers was extremely low. The effort

I've published a couple conference papers. I found the process to be slow and frustrating. The quality of feedback from reviewers was extremely low. The effort to write a paper in the ultra-dry, tedious style of academia was great with the payoff of making the papers almost unreadable while obscuring the ideas presented. Also, there's some expense involved. When I wrote papers I had an employer that paid my way to conferences. That is no longer the case. Journals don't require the same expenses, unless you want your work to be available through open access rather than locked into a single issue that will be read by maybe three people, ever. Open access usually costs the author money, meaning it's not really open. For my next publications, I'm not going to go the academic route. It looks good on the CV but otherwise doesn't serve my purposes. YMMV of course but think about what you want before committing to an approach that these days appears to be designed more to boost the publication credits of academics than to actually spread knowledge.