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I'm not buying either of the points, about romanticising or the portion. What means to do we have of discovering new content, right now. All the eyeball time o
by ricardo81 6y ago
I'm not buying either of the points, about romanticising or the portion.
What means to do we have of discovering new content, right now. All the eyeball time on social media, all the searches done for the most part on Google.
You've basically two methods of discovering new things when considering the sum time of everyone who might recommend something they've seen.
That's not romantic at all to me!
FWIW I don't think the link hunting of 20 years ago was systematically better, but it was definitely more individually minded, problem is it's been systematically spammed/undermined as well as the SEO issues I've mentioned so people are generally going to ignore 'link suggestions'
My main point is, diversify away from one or two central platforms. The issue is their consensus of what should and shouldn't be seen and the size of the market behind this.
- cortesoft 6y agoWhat are the two methods? I have received quite a few visitors from a Reddit post on the right subreddit. Hackernews posts generate a lot of traffic. You can also advertise on a number of platforms.
- ricardo81 6y agoThe two methods are the social and search portals that command the majority of time that Western world people spend their time on. I'm not saying that reddit or HN aren't dead ends but we're talking about the main arteries of information discovery. I'm sure we can agree the general populous don't have the nous to regularly visit HN or subscribe to relevant subreddits, the question is how do they find their information and conclusions.