> Even if you are willing to expend that cognitive overhead, most people aren’t nowadays. Shouldn't this cancel out against there being more people though? If

> Even if you are willing to expend that cognitive overhead, most people aren’t nowadays. Shouldn't this cancel out against there being more people though? If people are 90% less likely to want to read long blog posts but there are ten times more people on the internet, you should still have about the same number of readers, all else equal. > Because of that, bloggers are less likely to publish (smaller audience + less engagement = smaller incentive to publish). That lowers the average quality of blogs, turning away even their most ardent advocates. This conclusion may be right but it's also explained by the discoverability problem. If people can't find you then your audience is too small and you give up. > This was all inevitable. The mere existence of a popular meta-forum attenuates traditional blogs and forums. Blogs and forums are completely different things. https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/ https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/ https://www.popehat.com/ https://www.popehat.com/ https://www.schneier.com/blog https://www.schneier.com/blog https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ Reddit has its uses but it is not a substitute for these.