You bring up a good point I hadn't really thought about. I was thinking purely about discoverability in terms of the blogger's perspective rather than the reade

You bring up a good point I hadn't really thought about. I was thinking purely about discoverability in terms of the blogger's perspective rather than the reader. You're right, unless you're already following the people who are broadcasting their blogs in all of these various places or live on Reddit/Hacker News/etc., you're going to struggle to find them more now than ever before.