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The issue is the purpose of a personal website. - it's domain is like a home address on the internet, the website is the home on the web BUT we normally do not

by kkfx 4y ago

The issue is the purpose of a personal website. - it's domain is like a home address on the internet, the website is the home on the web BUT we normally do not do much on our homes to show things to others, they tend to be used just internally showing nothing particular to the outside world; - using it to share some personal projects it's ok-ish in the sense that if the project grow it probably get a project website, if not is probably not much interesting for others being almost unreachable due to the lack of really effective semantic search engines; - using it to publish CVs and alike is ok-ish since such publications can't be targeted so they are a bit too generic to be of effective usage; - using it to publish personal articles is ok, but normally no one except professional journalists have something to publish regularly. IMVHO real personal websites: - MUST NOT be blogs, blog idea IMO was a tentative to milk more personal information in the early stage of surveillance capitalism before smartphones came out using the peoples desire to show themselves to the world not caring much if the world is interested or not; - they should be REALLY personal, in the sense hosted on a homeserver because in 2022 ANY home should have an internet connection and any user a domain name so a static IP and a bunch of domains with vhosts for any family members for email, IM, file sharing, ... AND personal website as a way to publish something you like to share casually; - RSS to offer a mean for friends to follow the site without manually visiting it (full articles in the feed); - a personal web-app for file-sharing and things you like when on the go. These are my only personal list of reasons to have, and so to keep a bit up to date, a personal website. Stating clearly that personal website does not mean blog.

forgotpwd16 4y ago
Agree with the first four and last two points, don't agree with middle two. For example people were always looking to publish their essays ("letter to the editor"). A blog expands on this. For the next one, the workings of the site are in the end irrelevant to the reader. Also you say "a domain name so a static IP". One doesn't imply the other. You can have a domain name with a dynamic IP. Interestingly, if that's the case the home analogy kinda falls. Your address and land aren't distinct, yes this happens here. As for static IP, not everyone wants this.
- kkfx 4y ago
  Why not, but: - despite actual blog usage blogs was named as a contraction of web logs in the sense of human being web life logs, or "just post what are you doing, what you've just done" etc, they NEVER succeed for that of course, but that's was their original idea and design before "infinite scrolling" was a thing. Personal publications are more articles from a personal website and it's purpose unfortunately remain not that defined... - I do not state tie a domain to a home nor to a human, but ideally I hope a day we all have a home server, we actually have outside ours control in general and improperly named "router" (well, improperly in the sense that such 'boxes' are actually multi-purpose small servers not just mere routers) but "at least any humans should have at least one domain name starting from the high school beginning" and it's purpose should at least be for emails/federated IM/file sharing/* the user want from it's own iron... - I understand that static IPs might represent an issue for some reasons including file sharing coupled with other activities, privacy etc BUT dynamic DNS is an extra layer and honestly I prefer a real dome IPv6 deploy for anyone with privacy extensions BUT also with a global per any device we own... Essentially: IMO it's hard to find a real unique and clear purpose for a personal website but since we more or less have all some set of needs to have a personal machine accessible from the internet and the web is the most common tech over internet... Well... At least "please try to integrate tools we have widespread to do something useful" to make the modern real Mundaneum Otlet/La Fontaine and many others have dreamed for more than a century :-)

by kkfx 4y ago

forgotpwd16 4y ago

Agree with the first four and last two points, don't agree with middle two. For example people were always looking to publish their essays ("letter to the editor"). A blog expands on this. For the next one, the workings of the site are in the end irrelevant to the reader. Also you say "a domain name so a static IP". One doesn't imply the other. You can have a domain name with a dynamic IP. Interestingly, if that's the case the home analogy kinda falls. Your address and land aren't distinct, yes this happens here. As for static IP, not everyone wants this.

kkfx 4y ago
Why not, but: - despite actual blog usage blogs was named as a contraction of web logs in the sense of human being web life logs, or "just post what are you doing, what you've just done" etc, they NEVER succeed for that of course, but that's was their original idea and design before "infinite scrolling" was a thing. Personal publications are more articles from a personal website and it's purpose unfortunately remain not that defined... - I do not state tie a domain to a home nor to a human, but ideally I hope a day we all have a home server, we actually have outside ours control in general and improperly named "router" (well, improperly in the sense that such 'boxes' are actually multi-purpose small servers not just mere routers) but "at least any humans should have at least one domain name starting from the high school beginning" and it's purpose should at least be for emails/federated IM/file sharing/* the user want from it's own iron... - I understand that static IPs might represent an issue for some reasons including file sharing coupled with other activities, privacy etc BUT dynamic DNS is an extra layer and honestly I prefer a real dome IPv6 deploy for anyone with privacy extensions BUT also with a global per any device we own... Essentially: IMO it's hard to find a real unique and clear purpose for a personal website but since we more or less have all some set of needs to have a personal machine accessible from the internet and the web is the most common tech over internet... Well... At least "please try to integrate tools we have widespread to do something useful" to make the modern real Mundaneum Otlet/La Fontaine and many others have dreamed for more than a century :-)