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I always viewed comments as the true decider, for me personally. A view could be anything, but someone taking the time to leave a comment or reply to somebody e
by Andrex 3y ago
I always viewed comments as the true decider, for me personally. A view could be anything, but someone taking the time to leave a comment or reply to somebody else is a great motivator for further writing.
But I'm of the "a blog without comments is not a blog" folks.
- javchz 3y agoDepends a lot on the niche. A lot of people are just readers in tech blogs, and only comment if you made a mistake. But if you have a personal blog, the most random opinion can get dozen of comments even with a fraction of the readers.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoI don't have comment fields on my blog. Comments often feel low effort and noisy. Also no analytics. Figure if someone wants to reach me there is email, and if someone wants a discussion, they can post the article here or on reddit or whatever...
- medimikka 3y agoIt's 2023, just federate your blog and pull in comments from across the ActivityPub spectrum. If you're into low effort, just webmention.io it, else there are premade solutions for WordPress, 11ty, Jekyll, and many others. Comments are so 2003 pre-Trackback/Pingback.