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Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
- ricardobeat 1y ago> But with the revival of personal blogs well underway Is it? I haven't seen anyone in my circle return to blogging, nor kids of this generation. Discoverability is going to be a massive problem, since search engines are dead. Maybe word-of-mouth through social media is enough?
- minimaxir 1y agoSocial media referral traffic is also dead, mostly due to algorithms that really don’t want users to click out of their websites. The only exception is Bluesky because it does not have algorithmic feeds, but technical content does not do well as most technical people did not migrate.
- gerdesj 1y agoWe could always resurrect WAIS and Gopher. I sometimes compare Mediawiki vs SharePoint to Web x.0 vs WAIS n Gopher. One is light on resources, storing just the information with some formatting hints, leaving presentation to standards and the other is SharePoint. The comparison is really about bloat, not functionality, but the two are intertwined.
- throwaway5465 1y agoSharePoint was, as I remember it, one big unnormalised table. Everything else was views on that.
- JonChesterfield 1y agoThe content will be discovered just fine. It'll get embedded in the LLMs on the next round of training. Won't be attributed to your blog of course, but an approximation to the information will still get out there.
- bji9jhff 1y agoKnowing mega corps will suck my blood thanklessly is of no solace.
- baconbrand 1y agoThe way things are going, I’m not sure if the mega corps will ever truly turn a profit off the blood sucking. Maybe suck some USA tax money for a bailout… In the meantime, there are lots of actual humans trying to do things who will benefit from your knowledge being repackaged and delivered by the blood suckers.
- DrewADesign 1y agoI honestly can’t wrap my head around people getting excited about companies ingesting their work to munge up and sell without compensation or any attribution. I’m sure the feeling is mutual, but I really don’t get it.
- wiether 1y agoYou can also see it that way: big corps are funding the computing cost to ingest and propagate your ideas to millions of people, for free to you. The alternative would be to setup yourself a system that could serve those people.
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- B1FF_PSUVM 1y ago> an approximation to the information Playing telephone has now been automated ...
- Larrikin 1y agoWill an LLM purposefully change facts to incorrect information without fighting you the entire way? Seems like a blog platform could offer a feature where every posts has 3 or 4 factually wrong posts that would only be found by scrapers.
- AstroBen 1y agoI had Gemini copy a bunch of text from a personal blog yesterday to answer a query so the content will definitely get read
- VP2262 1y agoHere's a starting point https://peopleandblogs.com/ https://peopleandblogs.com/
- flpm 1y agoThis looks very interesting, thanks for sharing
- dogline 1y agoWe'll have to get the old (webrings)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring] back in fashion.
- FrasiertheLion 1y agoI would argue personal blogs are back and Substack is the medium of choice this time around
- ricardobeat 1y agoSubstack to me seems to be 40% self-promotion or advertising a service, 40% long-form LinkedIn posts / AI slop, and the remaining 20% is behind a subscription with eventual freebies. Mostly professional writing. It’s far from being a new blogspot.
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- freddie_mercury 1y agoI agree. Substack feels more like Op Ed writers realised they could make more money by self publishing than by staying at a dying media company with multiple levels of editorial oversight. To do well on Substack you need to publish pretty regularly, several times a week to keep and build an audience, and the only thing anyone can generate that fast are opinions. So Substack has really just become a decentralised Op Ed page.
- baconbrand 1y agoDecentralized and expensive. Maybe I’m looking at the wrong blogs but my impression so far is that a lot of subscriptions are around 5-10$ monthly for a single creator. I can get a ton of newspapers (ok not papers, websites) magazines etc for that price or better, and those have way more than one contributor. The video platform Nebula for example has 175 creators for 6$/month. It does seem to work for a lot of people, though. Good for them.
- freddie_mercury 1y agoThe minimum price is enforced by Substack, unfortunately. You can make everything free but you can't charge, say, $1/month. It definitely pushes the platform toward writers who think "I want to make this my full-time job & income". It also definitely suffers from, to a lesser extent, the Medium problem of way too many people thinking it is some kind of get-rich-quick thing. Somehow the Reddit algorithm started showing me the substack reddit, which seemed to mostly be pretty new authors complaining that they aren't making much money from Substack.
- jclarkcom 1y agoI restarted my blog after a 20 year break (https://jonathanclark.com https://jonathanclark.com) thanks to AI making taking out the drudgery.
- stanmancan 1y agoYou use AI to write your blog?
- jclarkcom 1y agoyes, for example this article including charts and summaries were generated by AI. https://jonathanclark.com/posts/ai-coding-million-lines-2025.html https://jonathanclark.com/posts/ai-coding-million-lines-2025... Typically I act as an editor rather than a direct writer with cursor now replacing word
- soiltype 1y agoI'm sorry to be harsh, but honest question - What's the purpose of using AI to create toy software that already exists (eg. YouTube downloader)? Normally the purpose would be to learn how to create that type of software, but that's presumably being skipped. Similarly... what's the point of blogging if you're not writing it yourself? This post is very long, but seems to basically just be riffing on the title over and over, at least by the 3rd graph. If you're not explaining anything and readers aren't receiving anything - what's it for? I really am asking with curiosity even though it's probably clear I have an opinion on this endeavor. There must be a reason you've paid money to do all this!
- raffael_de 1y ago> nor kids of this generation. (I fear) the blog of this generation's kids is called TikTok or whatever and the form is video instead of text.
- ricardobeat 1y agoTikTok is the exact opposite of blogging. It was about sharing bits of your daily life and personal thoughts and feelings, while building a small community. Having more than 50-100 readers was a major event (and not a thing people aimed for).
- raffael_de 1y agoThat's exactly what TikTok is for ... to the T.
- carlosjobim 1y agoAlmost right. The blog of this generation is called YouTube, and there's millions of such videos, with the author mostly talking. Why? YouTube pays creators, blogs don't.
- foodriver 1y agoOT: " My hunger-self does feel so memories are as lucid made with others in hope " ...say, "People making a name of 'themselfes' for profit (boinboing IIRC), cos it has to be a (1994) profit ? And to say something, that: it is only "the complexity of big-tech-companys", in terms of content" ? Asking, cos i tryed... I do it for um... "politikum" (if that is the correct term) maybe while keeping to give someone an excuse to laugh about... ...try, but remember mostly after a day or two, maybe one week... often before i lost a (often needed) password or email-adress, i delete it. Did it for fun, get lost...than => doing something other... > //deviantart.com/journalseducatethink/gallery regards, ... PS: rewritten while listening to: > //youtu.be/dzw7u9KOOBM?t=66
- ilamont 1y agoI have been blogging for decades, personal and work. I look at traffic patterns and see all the comments coming through. I don't think personal blogs are back.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoI've been indexing blogs and while I can't definitively say they are back, there are a lot of active bloggers. More than that, there are a lot of people wanting to have blogs to read since everything else has gone to shit.
- julianlam 1y agoNiche forums. Federated.
- Pacers31Colts18 1y agoDoes that actually exist? I know there are reddit type clones, but I'm yet to see anything that allows me to setup a niche server and only that.
- interroboink 1y agoYeah, there quite a few. Like old-school phpBB is still around[1]. Or, take a look at the list on Wikipedia[2]. Not sure if you're looking for a hosted solution, though. A lot of those would involve you running your own server. [1] https://www.phpbb.com/ https://www.phpbb.com/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s...
- doublerabbit 1y agoHow I miss my script kiddie days of being 15, downloading "nulled" versions of vBulletin off of Limewire and throwing them up on pocket money paid cPanel web hosting account waiting for it to upload on my parents 56K. Exploit ridden PHPNuke & e107 CMS too.
- speff 1y agoWe had similar childhoods - though I did phpBB. Never had an audience for the forum, but it was cool just having and styling it. Good times.
- input_sh 1y agoDiscourse also has a (first-party) ActivityPub plugin now!
- julianlam 1y agoIndeed! NodeBB is exactly that, and federates over ActivityPub.
- cagrimmett 1y agoDon't call it a comeback. We've been here for years.
- chickensong 1y agoLadies Love Cool Blogs
- Venn1 1y agoTwo years ago I started a niche blog and tech site focused on hardware and software guides for Linux creatives. Even set up a forum because I was fed up with digging through scattered mailing lists and Discord servers for information. I like to think it has helped some people and it gives me a chance to practice writing human-readable documentation.
- ra 1y agohow's it going?
- Venn1 1y agoQuite well, plenty of new skills to learn.
- chrisweekly 1y agolink?
- Venn1 1y agohttps://interfacinglinux.com/ https://interfacinglinux.com/
- chrisweekly 1y agocool thanks
- blakesterz 1y agoI was wondering what the definition of "niche" was going to be: Kottke is one of the better known blogs that does not have a specific speciality. I think that's a good one to highlight as NOT niche, and niche is much more specific. Like I've had a librarian blog since 1999. Pretty much niche.
- rmoriz 1y agoWhile there are ~ millions of blog engines out there, what is the current state of commenting and trackbacks?
- cosmicgadget 1y agoFragmented.
- Peacefulz 1y agoI want to start one myself. More of a public journal, but all the same. I keep having fits and starts and things distract me from the habit. That, and I'm never satisfied with my implementation in the end and I always want to try new or different things.
- codazoda 1y agoI standardized on pure HTML and CSS and wrote about why: https://joeldare.com/why-im-writing-pure-html-and-css-in-2025 https://joeldare.com/why-im-writing-pure-html-and-css-in-202...
- crackalamoo 1y agoI also use pure HTML and CSS (and a touch of hand-written JavaScript)
- ctxc 1y agoI wish your contact details were in your profile, because I'm the kinda guy who'd annoy you till you finally give up and publish the blog ;)
- nazargon 1y agoI started mine a couple of weeks back and I was surprised how useful it was to write down your process, as each post gives you a clear goal and helps you consolidate whatever you are working on.
- codazoda 1y agoIf you want to setup a super minimal blog checkout Neat CSS. https://neat.joeldare.com https://neat.joeldare.com
- awesome_dude 1y agoIsn't there a cycle - blogs, aggregators, email lists, back to blogs...?
- tinkelenberg 1y agoEvery blog is a niche blog because blogging is a niche. It never was and never will be mainstream. Social media began as an attempt to make the spirit of blogging a low lift for the noobs. Today, you’re talking to an audience that is online, willing to venture outside social media, and opting to actively read content rather than passively listen or watch. That’s far from everyone and that’s okay.
- viraptor 1y ago> It never was and never will be mainstream. We had the time around when blogspot was a thing when everyone and their dog had a blog. It was mainstream enough for "Julie and Julia". It was a different time.
- tinkelenberg 1y agoIt was a great time. Social media’s reached beyond that though. Grandma wasn’t online back then.
- bji9jhff 1y agoThat grandma is dead. The online grandma is her daughter. *You changed your post and now mine doesn't make sense anymore. I forgive you but don't do it again.
- tinkelenberg 1y agoFixed it for you.
- bji9jhff 1y agoHaha thanks ;)
- munificent 1y agoIt was good when we had social networking, and it got bad when that turned into social media. The point should be connecting people to other people and their creativity, not just connecting people to content which may or may not be vomited out by generative AIs.
- AndrewKemendo 1y agoI didn’t know they ever went out I’ve maintained my own domain since 2010 and know plenty of others that still do as well My page is one of my favorite places on the internet cause it’s in my opinion the original purpose of the internet which is to share your personal research and places to document and share personal ideas with infinite distribution.
- emschwartz 1y agoIf you’re looking to put one up, try https://bearblog.dev https://bearblog.dev (no connection, just appreciate Herman’s work). It’s got just the features you need, is built by a solo dev, and it’s got a very fair split between free and paid features. I used it to put up my personal site and have been very happy with the experience.
- hackerbeat 1y ago+1 Also, unlike search engines these days, it helps you get exposure.
- carabiner 1y agoHe needs to fix the "dd mm, yyyy" date format. It should be "dd mm yyyy" without a comma.
- loktarogar 1y agoAI scrapes niche blogs, Google deranks or spam drowns them out. It's really not a good time to be starting niche blogs.
- simonw 1y agoThe most depressing thing about AI these days is seeing people cite it as a reason NOT to create useful content! Feels very nihilistic.
- loktarogar 1y agoI agree! There's certainly a difference between making useful content for the love of it and making content because you think there's an opportunity to get something out of that (that could be money, but it could also just be appreciation or someone reading your work). It's demoralising to not get any views on your hard work, and in this economic environment it sometimes feels more worth your time to do any other activity. You may be the counter-proof to that and I enjoy your blog! But, also a lot of what makes your content useful is timing with depth and that's something that AI can't beat yet
- krater23 1y agoIt's just, no one will read it, beside of some machines. Blogging was fun because you knows that someone is reading it. You had some comments under your articles. When this isn't there, you can just write your stuff in a paper book and put it in your drawer. And today, there is absolutely no one who will read it, or react to it. Only AI inhales the information and shows it without giving credit to people that never will hear about you. You just fill their database with useful data for free. Thats all.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoHaving everything you make stolen and fed into the AI machine absolutely is a good reason not to create anything useful. Or at least a good reason not to post it online
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- arjie 1y agoAre personal blogs back? My personal blog ten years ago (even twenty years ago) received a lot of direct traffic on all sorts of things from the primary search engines and so on. Nowadays, the only search engine that delivers any traffic to my site is Kagi! Looking back, I haven't changed my style of writing very much, so I suspect the reality is that I've just fallen behind in a comparative sense. There are much better things nowadays to access. It's probably similar to the street-side musician. In old times, he may have been the only musician around you might hear. Nowadays, he's got to compete with a perfect recording of Hotel California by the Eagles.
- sowbug 1y agoI assume that search engines these days don't care as much about showing results that won't make them money. Either you bought search ads, your site is showing ads from their network, or you're SOL.
- andai 1y agoHmm, that's pretty rough. It kind of sounds like a search engine should be considered public infrastructure. (Perhaps also the browser, email, etc? ;)
- krater23 1y agoYou can install your own email server without much costs, so when everyone would do that we would have fewer problems.
- chemotaxis 1y agoI think they do. The problem is different. It used to be that if you had a blog about something like guitar maintenance or linear algebra, that was enough to show up in the results, because no one else was directly competing with you. Over time, a lot of companies figured out that if they start posting content-farmed articles on notionally non-commercial topics, this drives people to their website, so you ended up with billions of pages like this: thecleaningauthority . com/blog/how-to-clean/the-ultimate-guide-to-cleaning-pillows-and-pillo/ (remove spaces if you really want to). And then LLMs brought down the marginal cost of cranking out content on any conceivable topic basically to zero, so you're all of sudden competing with 500 companies publishing spammy guitar maintenance advice. It's not that search engines want to show that stuff, but it's hard for them to tell.
- kazinator 1y agoSay, "personal" blogs being back wouldn't happen to have anything to do with being able to generate reams of text with little effort?
- NoboruWataya 1y agoThe Gemini protocol, which has been posted here recently, is pretty good for reading personal and niche blogs. Yes, yes, I know you don't need Gemini for this, it is entirely possible from a technical perspective to host a minimalist personal blog over HTTP. But a great thing about Gemini is that there really isn't that much else on there, so the signal to noise ratio is higher. I check gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/ pretty regularly and find some interesting posts there.
- ghssds 1y agoLot of interresting blogs on gopher too.
- shevy-java 1y agoWe have medium.com too. I hate that. Blogging kind of was better in the past. I also remember geocities. It was kind of cool. Neocities unfortunately does not really capture that old spirit. It's just ... different.
- GaryBluto 1y ago> Neocities unfortunately does not really capture that old spirit. It's just ... different. Geocities was used by slightly nerdy average joes while from a brief glance Neocities looks to be a place for Mastodon techies to roleplay an internet they never participated in.
- ctxc 1y agoI do have a fairly new personal blog, but I'm not sure how discoverability works. It seems like you'd get traffic from search engines a few years back, but now the only traffic I've had is from a HN post. Everything points to optimizing for "AEO" for LLMs now
- crackalamoo 1y agoI'm a little skeptical of AEO. What's the point if AI users just ask the LLM to retrieve the information and never visit your blog? I almost never click the links ChatGPT gives me Maybe it makes sense if you're selling a product or service, but I don't see the appeal of AEO as the new SEO. Maybe I'm missing something?
- foxfired 1y agoI don't know about being back, but it certainly isn't dead. A few years back, I used to get at least 10k readers a day. That number went down to less than 100 a day at it's lowest, I was writing 10 entries a year at most. Last year, I wrote just 4. One thing I failed to notice was that RSS was still active. So this year, I started consistently contributing, over 150 so far, and I see RSS picking up right where it left off [0]. A lot of my blog post suck, but I write them as an observation and my current understanding of a subject. Readers have agency to skip what they don't like and only read what they like. [0]: https://imgur.com/a/RSVtD1W https://imgur.com/a/RSVtD1W
- ctxc 1y agoWow. A few questions: - I recently added RSS to my blog. The URL works but I don't advertise it with the icon. Should I? - What do you use to track traffic?
- foxfired 1y agoI don't use the icon, but at the end of every article I have the "Follow me via RSS Feed" as a direct link to the RSS. As far as tracking the rss traffic, this graph is generated from my server logs. It is literally cat apache logs | grep my feed url | awk daily traffic | sort. Note this shows me how many RSS readers have accessed my RSS daily. I can't actually track each person, although I have a report I'm working on for the end of the year.
- adiabatty 1y agoDo you also have something like <link rel=alternate href=/atom.xml type=application/atom+xml> in your <head> element? Things like this let me just throw homepages (or blog pages) at feed readers and they can discover all the different feeds available and I can pick one (although you really don't need more than one, generally).
- simonw 1y agoI hadn't looked at my feed subscriber stats in a while, turns out I had around 6,000 at the start of 2025 and I'm up to around 12,000 now - very healthy! I use my own server-side tracking to count them - I look out for the user-agent from feed software like Feedly and pull the number out of it: Feedly/1.0 (+https://feedly.com/poller.html; 694 subscribers; ) Here's my code for that: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/main/feedstats/utils.py https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/blob/main/feedst...
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- Melatonic 1y agoKagi small web is great for discovering stuff like this. I also follow a few things on Substack but overall that site seems a bit all over the place
- mawise 1y agoThe article goes back and forth between bloggers who "are doing well" (ie: making money) and efforts that are non-commercial. It comes across as asking humanity to put more effort into writing and publishing in a non-profitable space while the blogging incentives are profit. I still think the unexplored space for blogging (and the LLM-proof space) is _private_ blogging--for friends and family. But maybe Facebook killed that space off, who knows.
- kevg123 1y agoA lot of the sites on neocities have blogs on them: https://neocities.org/browse?sort_by=random&tag= https://neocities.org/browse?sort_by=random&tag= nekoweb is another one: https://nekoweb.org/explore?page=1&sort=lastupd&by=tag&q= https://nekoweb.org/explore?page=1&sort=lastupd&by=tag&q=
- grahar64 1y agoMy main advice for engineers is to write a blog. It isn't for anyone else it is to organize your thoughts. But should be presented in a way others can learn from. For a year I published every Tuesday morning, and that schedule made me learn so much so fast.
- benleejamin 1y agoI maintain a list of interesting personal websites. There's some link rot, but a good number of young people maintain personal sites, and some of them have blogs! (college CS/design grads, mostly.) I don't think anyone's really optimizing for SEO. (it's not even really clear to me that that's very important any more.) Submissions welcome ofc :) https://arc.net/folder/4A220E67-674A-456D-AEDB-796B5BE82034 https://arc.net/folder/4A220E67-674A-456D-AEDB-796B5BE82034
- Brajeshwar 1y agoAt that time, when Problogger started showing off the Google AdSense checks, many blogs also got “inspired,” and AdSense became the default for blogs. I still remember getting my first check all the way from Mountain View, which takes about 30-40 days to reach my home in India. I never encash that one, just like the few others that serve as nostalgia pieces for my Time Capsule: the first DCMA letter, the tiny dollar checks one gets from Apple settlement checks, etc. Of course, the check size grew pretty big, and with other ad revenue that my personal website brought in, it was enough for me to live a rather lavish life in Bombay (INDIA) in the mid-2000s. Just like Problogger, India has its own — Digital Inspiration by Amit Agarwal at https://www.labnol.org https://www.labnol.org In fact, a VC hinted to me that I should, or if I have the balls to convert my personal blog to the “Techcrunch of India” and become Michael Arrington. I wasn’t made for that and never wanted to be a blogger. My blog should be a very personal space. Well, my personal blog became a cheesy mess of personal ramblings with no aim or ambition. :-) I think Kiruba Shankar attempted the closest to that one in India at https://www.kiruba.com https://www.kiruba.com and did succeed to a degree. Fortunately, my website still enjoys direct links from a few Patents in the USA that reference my articles as a source of truth, as well as a few links from Wikipedia, WordPress.org, Adobe, and a few other well-established websites here and there. Quite a few of the articles were translated into other languages, and I keep getting referenced. Google still sends me quite a handful of visits daily. I don’t think niche blogs are coming back, because the moment a “niche blog” becomes sustainable and “profitable”, it is no longer a niche blog. It becomes another commercial website or a publication.
- simonw 1y agoHere are some reasons to start a personal blog: 1. It's a great way to learn. Teaching something to someone else has always been the best learning tool, and writing about something with an audience in mind is an effective way to capture some of that value. 2. It can be a big boost in job hunting. As a hiring manager two of the most important questions I have about a potential candidate are: Can they code? Can they communicate well? If a candidate has a blog with just two articles on it that hasn't been updated in five years that's still a big boost over candidates with nothing like that at all. In a competitive market that could be the boost you need to make it from the resume review to the first round. 3. If you blog more frequently than that it can be a really valuable resource for your future self. I love being able to look back on what I was thinking and writing about ten years ago. Having a good tagging system helps with this too - I can review my tag of "scaling" or "postgresql" and see a timeline of how my understanding developed. 4. It's a great way to help establish credibility. If someone asks you about X and you have a blog entry about X from five years ago you can point them to that. 5. Building a blog is really fun! It used to be one of the classic starter projects for new web developers, I think that needs to come back. It's a fun project and one that's great to keep on hacking on long into the future. Notably none of the above reasons require your blog to attract readers! There's a ton of value to be had even if nobody actually reads the thing. As a general rule, assume nobody will read your blog unless you actively encourage them to. That's fine. What matters isn't the quantity of readers, it's their quality. I'd rather have a piece read by just a single person that leads to a new opportunity for me than 1,000 people who read it and never interact with me ever again. If you DO start to get readers things get even more valuable. I've been blogging since 2002 and most of the opportunities in my career came from people I met via blogging. Today I get invited to all sorts of interesting events because I have a prominent blog covering stuff relating to AI and LLMs. But I do honestly think that a blog is a powerful professional tool even if nobody else is reading it at all. If you want to give it a go I've written a few things that might be useful: - What to blog about: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/ https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/ - Today I learned and write about your projects - My approach to running a link blog - https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/ https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/ - aka write about stuff you've found
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- notepad0x90 1y agoThere are just not enough ways to discover personal blogs. HN is a great source, but you'll notice over time there are always AskHN posts asking something like "What is a site like HN for..", and people trying to build HN clones. Reddit was good for a while for this, but hasn't been for a long time. I'm hoping people rediscover/reinvent slashdot.
- simonw 1y agoIf you blog I think it's really important to develop a habit of linking to other people's blogs. That's how blog discovery used to work back in the 200xs and it can still work effectively today.
- HeinzStuckeIt 1y agoIf you mean creating a blogroll to show other blogs you recommend, that is no longer so effective now that mobile phones are most of the world’s default interface to the internet. Themes for common blogging platforms like Wordpress generally hide the sidebar, blogrolls included, on mobile.
- simonw 1y agoNo not a blog roll - more a link blog or a habit of linking back to pieces you found relevant or interesting.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoAgreed on this. Blogrolls are okay for people wandering the blogosphere but you only get so much from "check out this peer of mine". Topical links (here is another informative post about x) are much nicer for a reader who is already reading about x. And link blogs are great because they endorse specific content from someone.
- immibis 1y agoLike this page: https://www.immibis.com/outlinks/ https://www.immibis.com/outlinks/ It's just a list of hyperlinks to other sites with brief descriptions. I think it's a good idea and everyone should create one on their small website.
- bryanhogan 1y agoSomething cool I noticed while living in South Korea is that Naver Blog is very popular and a large amount of people use it, either writing content or looking up content for recommendations, e.g. where to go when travelling.
- anonzzzies 1y agoI was around when the blog got invented and I never felt the need. Now I am starting to. Even if no one reads it, it is still a better way to organise my thoughts and at least celebrate my own achievements like I would want to without the suffering modern social media.
- unsungNovelty 1y agoI wrote about it when I started as well: Why do I host a website? - https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/11/2019/why-do-i-host-a-website/ https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/11/2019/why-do-i-host-a-... And state of blogging: https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2024/life-of-a-blog-blogging-in-2024-and-beyond/ https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2024/life-of-a-blog-b... I started this journey from scratch. Despite not pushing for numbers and regular schedule, my website still have 20k viewers since I added analytics (didn't have analytics for 2 years in the beginning). That might be a small number for most, but it means that there are people who want to read what I write. That is all that matters. Atleast to me.
- brynet 1y agoI guess mine is more blog-lite? It's a mix of microblogging (an embedded view of the rss feed for my mastodon) as well as some static-HTML blog articles below that. https://brynet.ca/ https://brynet.ca/ https://brynet.ca/article-x395.html https://brynet.ca/article-x395.html
- taneq 1y agoHow much more niche can you get than a personal blog? It’s literally about the smallest number of people you can get.
- khet 1y agoI've been curating some of the last few personal blogs in one place for a couple years now (http://boredreading.com http://boredreading.com). It always makes me happy to see more people bring back blogging. I hate that everything is on platforms like substack, and would much rather see a million wordpress or ghost installs.
- grayhatter 1y agoWow, I really wanted to like this site. The domain name is perfect. But it's a sad example of what's wrong with the web. The top 25% is the nav bar, ok, maybe that's reasonable? the next 25% is a "new here", please join upsell. The next 20% is another upsell, please give me your email so I can spam you. The bottom 35% is tags, and the bottom 25% is finally links... but they're mostly covered by another upsell. Holy shit! And to top it all off, even with uBo enable there's a full sceen popup/modal add dimming the whole page, begging me to let them help me with my overwhelming debt. WTF is wrong with people who do this stuff?!
- moralestapia 1y agoWhat I'd really like to see is blogrings back! Here's mine (but barely incomplete drafts, I started it last week): blog.moralestapia.com
- lofaszvanitt 1y agoCreating a blog is like a fart in the wind. You have to do everything. Marketing, dissemination etc etc. Good luck. Do not feed the AI overlords for nothing.
- jjude 1y agoI have been blogging since 2003. My reasons,learning, and rewards and why I still blog: - It is a personal blog = 1st audience is me. Best self-improvement investment I made - I blog for my present self: I blog about what I read, what I'm thinking about a topic, what I learned etc. But also I blog for my future self: the trends I'm noticing, how I should prepare and I am preparing - Since it is a personal blog, sometimes I blog about books I read, sermons I preach, technical notes. All mixed up. - This year got about 40k YTD traffic, which is not bad for a personal blog. Highest traffic came for my post on openwebui. Benefits I've seen: - I am not selling anything or running ads. So there are no first order monetization - Since I blog about topics that matter to me (career, tech trends), I already have a clear thinking on those topics. So when they come up for discussions, I am able to speak clearly and with depth. That has landed me in promotions, faster career growth, coaching opportunities, and more - People share my blog post when certain topics come up for discussion. This has increased my influence and their respect towards me. If you are interested to see how my blog has changed over time, I have kept a changelog: https://www.jjude.com/changelog/ https://www.jjude.com/changelog/
- flpm 1y agoI love the idea of a personal site/blog changelog!
- lightveil 1y agothe problem I always have with starting a personal blog is that-I want to write about my projects, but I also want to write about introspective life things. And I'm always fearful that introspective life things would detract (perhaps significantly, if they are too revealing) from employers/etc looking at me as a potential hire. This is not so much about politics (I don't find a strident need to blog about my political opinions (yet?)), but just writing about friends, life events, what I thinka bout those, etc. I've thought about two potential ways of getting around this: 1. Maintain two separate blogs, one professional, one personal, make the personal blog pseudonymous, and put all the things I don't want employers to see over there. This seems fine, but also feels like too much work in practice? (perhaps the work is just of selecting where to put the post after I'm done writing it, though.) 2. Maintain one blog, and not care about market hire or anything like that. This...would work, but I'm not sure about potential bad effects because of this. I could just choose to write completely pseudonymously instead. I'm not sure.
- cube00 1y agoStart with two, you can always merge them later. > This seems fine, but also feels like too much work in practice? Once you've finished procrastinating on your perfect stack to run/generate the blog, it's easy to set up a second.
- peterspath 1y agoI have done the second way. I have split it up in categories, so people can subscribe to different categories rss feeds if they don't want the whole feed. I have ~1000 daily readers now. With all kinds of interests.
- crackalamoo 1y agoMy two cents: if you're not doing anything too political or controversial, it's fine or even beneficial to mix in the occasional personal essay with the professional. After all, many of your readers are also human beings with lives, maybe even lives similar to yours based on your professional content. (The rest of your readers are LLMs.) Your readers might appreciate your perspectives on random life things or just getting to see what their favorite blogger is up to.
- renegat0x0 1y agoI maintain list of personal domains, together with many other things in a database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database
- akikoo 1y agohttps://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs List of Public Blogs of Hacker News users
- bowsamic 1y agoThe issue with blogging is that now people are absolutely brutal about quality. I wouldn’t be comfortable sharing my understanding online on a blog, even if I’m an expert. I just know that what I write will be endlessly picked on, probably mocked in some cliquey discord channel
- ArcHound 1y agoHello, as someone who does this for years, don't worry. People out there are generally nice. People mostly don't care. And even if someone mocks your stuff in private - it says more about them than you.
- Havoc 1y agoCould just disable comment
- grayhatter 1y ago> I just know that what I write will be endlessly picked on, probably mocked in some cliquey discord channel So if you started creating content to teach other people, it would then live rent free in the heads of people who cant do it? If anything, that sounds like a reason to start blogging. I don't mock people who write about stuff I already understand. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ was kind enough to grant me immunity to that. I do mock people who write incorrectly from authority, without curiosity. Equally I look down on those who try to use their knowledge as a cudgel against people still learning. I would mock those trying to weaponize knowledge, but I try not to punch down. If I wrote something, and found out it was being mocked in some discord channel, that would make me laugh, much more than worry or feel ashamed. In order for me to value some criticism, I would first have to value or desire their opinion. I can't imagine a single person who's feedback I would be interested in, if their version of humor is trying to dunk on someone who is learning, and sharing that learning. They're too stupid for me to waste my limited attention to care about what they ̶t̶h̶i̶n̶k̶ say. Chances are, there is someone out there who would be grateful you explained something in a way they could understand, when everyone else failed. That's how the intersection of knowledge and shared context works. You don't need to value the opinions of idiots. Let them be idiots. It's ok, and even desired to focus your attention on making something good with value to people who aren't stupid.
- mandeepj 1y ago> Personal blogs are back They didn’t go anywhere! Ask the folks who have consistently maintained them regardless of current fad
- zkmon 1y agoBlogs are back? You know, you need to present some evidence.
- bjhess 1y agoIf you’d like to dip your toe in the blogging pool for the first time (or again), I’d appreciate if you gave https://pika.page/ https://pika.page/ a look. It’s free for your first 50 posts (that’s a lot).
- xyzal 1y agoI sometimes think about the best way to create some kind of semi-offline local diary. Like a RPI with a public AP, disconnected from the greater internet and with a default gateway page eing the diary. Are there any standards or customs for such a thing?
- ovo101 1y agoniche blogs feel like the natural next step — focused, resilient, and more trustworthy than generic feeds.
- zahirbmirza 1y agoMedium, Substack, Reddit and even X, are all evolutions of personal blogging. How do we over come the issue of promotion of independent blog pages?
- lambertsimnel 1y agoPerhaps these options aren't mutually exclusive. POSSE (Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) could also be an option: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35636052 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35636052
- gethly 1y agoDecentralisation for the win. Coincidentally, my project Gethly.com just recently added a new feature - paywall as a service. Which is perfect for personal blogs with some valuable content.
- jeswin 1y agoBack where? The ecosystem and interconnected-ness has completely vanished. If you look at the late 90s or early 2000s, people had RSS readers, and sites had feeds, blogrolls, trackbacks/pingbacks, a commenting system which worked, and social bookmarking sites (like del.icio.us) which were somewhat mainstream. All of this is gone. Blogs are not going to survive in the current super-noisy consumption architecture. For blogs to be back, you'd almost need a new internet.
- stevoski 1y agoThe premise of this article is 100% incorrect. Personal blogs are not "back". The article has zero evidence for this. Ironically, Darren Rowse (the "problogger" person cited in the article) hasn't published a new blog post since 2024-07-24, more than a year ago.
- greyman 1y agoYes indeed, and also the title promise - I looked forward to read how the personal blogs are back, only to discover the author didnt provide any evidence, but not even examples. Maybe they are indeed back, if we count Substack newsletter archive as a "personal blog".
- Separo 1y agoWhat app can I use to aggregate all the blogs I want to follow?
- entuno 1y agoMany blogs support RSS (even if they don't link to it - check the page source), so that's usually the best way to do it. There are lots of different RSS readers out there depending on whether you want a web based or local one. Personally I use Thunderbird.
- port11 1y agoReeder on iOS is great. Anything that's good for RSS should be enough. RSS and other syndication options remain excellent, thankfully we haven't lost these things.
- heikkilevanto 1y agoI have never been much info blogging, but I am in the habit of writing things down in small text files on my computer. It has almost the same benefits as a personal blog that has no outside readers, and a bit less stress about having to write something or worry about what I can say in public...
- motbus3 1y agoI did return my personal blog but I adopted an model that is terrible for scraping data from Not only because it sucks they do it, but because I host everything.
- apples_oranges 1y agoWhy bother. When you publish something good, AI will fetch it in 0.01 seconds from you..
- grayhatter 1y agoI don't read AI generated output. I read and enjoy content from people who want to share something. There is no chance I'll read anything within 0.01s of it being posted, but there is a chance I'll find it eventually. So if the first thing to read the content is all that matters, or if having complete exclusive control so that only the people you like can read it, and importantly only in the way that you decided they should read it. Then don't bother? But if you want to create something of value for someone else, and the exact time it takes them to find it, or the browser they use isn't actually important. Seems like it's still a good time to write stuff. Maybe even better, to resist AI content drowning out new stuff.
- NoiseBert69 1y agoI have nich'ed tech blog too. Mostly about self-developed things. Sadly this is the most valuable data source for LLM fuckers. But honestly: without having an efficient way to fight them crawlers I'm not willed to write for it anymore. Is there an efficient solution I can add? It lives on a Shared Web Hoster. For self-hosted stuff there's Anubis. Also willed not to use Cloudfare.
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- goodthink 1y agoBasic Auth My blog: https://chalculator.com/blog https://chalculator.com/blog Use Credentials: User: croquet Pass: yadayadayada Pain in the butt, links won't work without the creds, but they only need to be entered once. Also, my blog comes complete with an IDE in the browser!
- mark_l_watson 1y agoMuch of the value of platforms like X and Mastodon is in discovering and bookmarking long form articles and blogs to read. I have written close to 3000 blog articles over the last 25 years (and many books) - primarily because I like writing, otherwise the top post here today nails it listing reasons to blog.
- _the_inflator 1y agoJust head to https://problogger.com/ https://problogger.com/ I started blogging 20+ years ago - and this was is still the number one go to reference after all. He started as one of us, and started posting tipps - until... The story continues.
- DLion 1y agoThere are so many benefits around having a personal blog that I'm surprised about reading all these negative comments. I started blogging about tech and security when I was 13/14 years old in my native language. Then, when I felt more mature, I switched to a new blog where English was the main language. I started improving my language skills, getting some donation from kind strangers for my blog posts and using it as a self-branding forever running-side project. Now, 20 years later I still have my personal blog and I still write about tech, but only recently I created some "personal related" tabs, like the "/now" page, enriching it every month or having a more personal about page. Why? Because I like going to a blog a see that behind that address there is a real person with emotions and dreams, it's like entering in their home and have a look around. 1. Improve your language skills 2. Self-branding 3. Memorize better topics you care about 4. Share what you learned with others About LLM, I don't care if they scrape my blog, I use LLMs every day, and if some stuff I write helps to enrich an LLM with a positive impact I would be more than happy to let it happens, the more we write, the less fake-news and low-quality content would ingest and used.
- cushychicken 1y agoI think there’s a lot of people out there who don’t want to believe written communication skills like these are as important as raw technical skill.
- b112 1y agoI recall when I entered college. The first thing was mandatory, required, english classes. The logic was, if you cannot communicate, you cannot explain why your job, or what you're doing is important. If it has value. If you have value. You cannot hope to explain requirements to others. Or explain the logic or reasons, the "why" of a technical path. You're likely correct that a lot of people think this unimportant. To them I'd say, they're severely limiting their career, if they don't think communicating is important.
- Kerrick 1y agoThat's really interesting to me. I consider writing to be a "raw technical skill." Programming and writing are inextricably linked. The lexicon of software borrows heavily from writing: language, syntax, grammar, statement, and expression. Even the way we critique code heavily overlaps with how an editor critiques writing: consistent, readable, elegant, concise or verbose, and follows a style guide.
- OakNinja 1y agoIt’s interesting how you end up being a part of the current trends whether you know it or not. I actually set up a blog on the 15th. No real content yet but I’ve almost written a first real post. Seeing this made me chuckle - I thought _I_ had an original thought around missing blogs but I’m obviously just a part of the hive mind. I truly hope this trend is here to stay. I also want to share this video on the topic ”The reason no one has hobbies anymore”, it was shared by a podcast I was listening to the other day and I think it’s well worth watching. https://youtu.be/IUhGoNTF3FI https://youtu.be/IUhGoNTF3FI
- nickjj 1y agoI'm not sure about this. I've released a new post every week for 10 years straight. My traffic in the last 2 years is worse than the first 2 years. At the blog's peak I was getting around 180k unique visitors a month for years. I was able to build a whole business around selling tech courses and doing contract work for the last 10 years but now traffic is so little that this is no longer feasible (not even close). Just looking at the numbers, it's very likely related to Google not sending as much traffic as they used to because they either inline my content on their search engine results or AI results are used now instead of people visiting individual sites. I still do it because I enjoy the process and my main motivator was never money but at the same time you need to be able to sustain yourself too. It's a bummer to be honest. On that note, a ton of great non-money related opportunities came my way due to posts I've written in the past so I won't be stopping. I hope these continue.
- pardon_me 1y agoPersonal blogs are completely different from a web-based business which relies on SEO to be profitable. The idea of personal blogging is for your own growth and history.
- nickjj 1y ago> The idea of personal blogging is for your own growth and history. That was why I started. Any business I got were byproducts of writing organically about the things I was working on. Courses were also a byproduct of doing the same type of contract work for many different clients.
- eloisant 1y agoI think it's a combination of: - Google no longer sending traffic - Users staying on social media (facebook/x/instagram/youtube/tiktok) and not even clicking external links
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- october8140 1y agoNext bring back rss.
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- Peteragain 1y agoI am always delighted when I come across a good one, but finding good ones is the problem. Ross Wilkinson (CSIRO) many years ago said there were 3 ways to find things: browsing - from were you are, look about. If you're in the high street and hungry, walk and look. It is no use knowing what is 5km away or what was available there 6 months ago. Categories are another - think Dewey Decimal system. These are expensive to produce and get out dated, but you know when something is _not_ available. Third is tags attached to items and a search engine. Content words at good tags but the challenge is to stop vested interests gaming the system - telling you you can get it through Amazon tomorrow when you could get it from across the road today, or when The State doesn't want you to know what "the Russian Narrative" is (other than "it's bad"). A search engine specifically for blogs would be great if we knew how to make it work in the long term.
- croisillon 1y agoblog softwares should facilitate the production of a feed river: what a specific author likes is sometimes as valuable, or more, as what they write
- Peteragain 1y agoYes. The challenge is to understand how the river comes about, and at the same time, preventing it being gamed by vested interests.
- xtiansimon 1y agoI took a MOOC course for teachers which advocated long form blogging for course assignments + social media short posts with appropriate tags to publicize/connect with classmates. At the time they suggested using Twitter or Facebook. And while I had a twitter account, I rarely used it. Over the period of the course, I managed to cultivate a nice community out of a largely unused account, and connected with like minded individuals on programming and, due to the course’s target audience, teachers. The course then taught you to analyze the social media posts using the Twitter API. Turtles all the way down. It was the best MOOC I ever participated in. So this experience has become my prototype for blogging and publicity—blog+social media. I’ve not continued the blogging (the class was in 2010?), but I have tried to cultivate, for example, on BlueSky a community of _only_ my personal and professional interests (not unlike HN content), but politics, entertainment and sports keep muddying the waters. It’s impossible to control your feeds these days, so I don’t know if Blog+Social is a pattern that works _today_ with the current crop of social. Not sure if people who are NOT _in it for the money_ can achieve the personal engagement necessary to carry on. Small aside, during COVID NYC Python community met on online. It continued for over a year and then fizzled out. But oh what a glorious year of weekly online meetups. And every one had the good taste to keep it to Python and their ruddy projects. Hehe.
- adiian 1y agoIMO blogs were killed by big tech and social media. By creating centralized ways to distribute information. They started by killing rss, was way too decentralized. Facebook, Twitter, every single platform are just gate keepers that have complete power on what you see. They all start in the same way, making it convenient to access information, by centralizing it. Once you change your habits, they make it in such a way that you get locked in, and they start inserting in the feed all kind of junk you don't want, until a point when you are sick of it and jump to the next place, which is still in phase one, convenient, enjoyable. Then the story repeat, you end up seeing 90% junk, just to be able to see some of the posts of the people you follow. Somehow there is a lot of truth in this fake quote: "Those who would give up essential liberty to decide whom to follow, for getting a little temporary convenience in exchange, deserve neither to chose what to read nor convenience"
- llm_nerd 1y agoIMO blogs were killed by big tech and social media The social media part is true, though in a way that is more user-benefitting than many bloggers (such as myself) appreciate or will acknowledge. And HN is one such "social media" site that invariably helped "kill" blogs, so there's an irony that this is being discussed here. Before HN / Reddit (others will put Twitter / Bluesky / whatever else in here), I had a list of "must read" blogs that I would monitor to, essentially, keep up. My feed reader alerted me to their entries, I would pay attention to "must read" blog lists, and so on. That process yields a lot of chaff for the wheat you yield. An enormous amount. Especially after many bloggers started thinking that they need to have daily content (bloggers like Atwood proselytized that the key to being successful was overwhelming quantity), however facile and useless, to hit some quota. I would rather have a feed that was quiet but then once a week a banger hits amongst dozens of authors, but instead it was just an enormous amount of filler. Eventually I just stopped monitoring it. With sites like HN, and various Reddit subs, my (proven) hypothesis is that the good content will rise on social media, and the chaff will sit in obscurity. Kind of like torrent seeders, this relies upon the few who are willing to dig through the chaff, /new, etc, however I'm okay missing content if only the well thought out, high effort content rises to the top.
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- abhish16 1y agoI genuinely feel that search engines, especially Google after 2020, played a major role in wiping out personal blogs. There was a time when searching for anything online, say best running shoes or how to install a WordPress plugin, gave you a healthy mix of personal websites, hobby blogs, and commercial sites. Then Google rolled out EEAT or whatever and the spotlight shifted almost entirely to big commercial websites. These companies hire professional writers for every niche. People with degrees, credentials, and polished resumes that an individual blogger simply cannot compete with. Naturally, Google’s algorithm began pushing those sites to the top over individual bloggers assuming better information and content due to more impressive writer's resume. So now, if you search for the same things like running shoes, WordPress tutorials, anything remotely informational, the top results are all from big commerical websites and strangely total "unrelated" garbage after the 3rd page. Sometimes it reaches an absurd point like search results showing Forbes or similar outlets giving you medical or legal advice right in the first page if not the first suggestion. Google seems to forget that these articles often come with an inherent bias, a subtle (or not so subtle) push to sell something, regardless of how qualified the writer is.
- rimmontrieu 1y agoSomeone mentions bearblog, medium, substack, etc for hosting blogs but my favorite web stack to run blogs or any content heavy websites nowadays is just https://astro.build/ https://astro.build/ plus cloudflare pages, deno deploy, netlify, vercel or any cloud provider with edge caching. I host both my gamedev tutorials and web game portal websites with cloudflare pages and so far they're pretty decent: - https://raizensoft.com/tutorials/ https://raizensoft.com/tutorials/ - https://ookigame.com https://ookigame.com
- tclancy 1y agoYeah, when I got restarted, instead of trying to spin up the entire old Django platform I had built for my business a decade before, I just exported the posts to text and found a good static publishing engine and stuck it all on GitHub Pages. All of the network traffic problems solved, easy to maintain and update and port. Plus I can point a custom url at it.
- wdm0006 1y agoI think the main point of a personal blog is to write consistently about things you think are neat, and allow the world to find it, assess it, and those who also find those things neat will stick around. What is neat means different things to different people, for some it may be one nice narrow thing, for some it may be an erratic mix of topics tied together by the tiniest of strings. But what makes personal blogs different than marketing blogs for SEO is the wanton disregard for all things not-neat.
- masylum 1y agoWe are building https://fika.bar https://fika.bar for that! Niche experts that like to write!
- masylum 1y agoWe are building https://fika.bar https://fika.bar precisely for that. Niche experts that would love to write, but they don't know how, or don't have time to.
- garganzol 1y agoI don't think personal blogs have made a comeback. Most modern blogs are ego-boosting camouflage, the same content you'd find on social media. This kind of content isn't intended to disseminate useful information, but rather to hijack your emotions and force you to react in a way you've been told. It's a form of psychic vampirism. I have fond memories and miss profoundly the innocuous purity of 1994-2005 internet era. Back then, the content was created mostly by enthusiasts, not by attention seekers.
- cal85 1y agoCamouflage in what sense?
- NaomiLehman 1y agoin the sense that the supposed topic of the blog is not what it actually is about. it's about the emotion that it's selling. just like the OP blog
- azhenley 1y agoWhat are some great technical blogs that I should consider following? Many of my favorites have quit.
- jxf 1y ago"Personal blogs are back", says article, without providing any data or evidence to substantiate this claim.
- theletterf 1y agoI chose to make my personal site a blog. I guess they'd call it a nice blog, since I only write about technical writing. It's great for networking and your career. Personal brand and all that. I would never return to personal blogging, though. That ship sailed around 2007, when social media appeared and trolls killed the last remaining personal blogs. The GeoCities safe haven vibe died then.
- unsungNovelty 1y agoI have been hearing that blogging died since I started my personal website. The spotlight changed since social networking sites. That is all. Blogging is still alive and well. And I wrote about this after RibbonFarm's retiring post as well - https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2024/life-of-a-blog-blogging-in-2024-and-beyond/ https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2024/life-of-a-blog-b...
- topherjaynes 1y agoI still check https://www.swiss-miss.com/ https://www.swiss-miss.com/ to this day, more of this please!
- tiltowait 1y agoI recently started a blog to document some service migrations and other random musings as I adopt FreeBSD (after a decade-long hiatus). It's fun to write and think about this stuff in a shareable way, even though I expect no one[0] to ever read it. It's also been fun using a new-to-me SSG (Hugo). [0] Correction: I have had three visitors, not including myself.
- moffkalast 1y agoSo two LLM scrapers and Google's indexer then? ;)
- pessimizer 1y ago> This is a largely non-commercial movement. That's strange, because literally the only place I see blogs being back is on Substack. And the only way to get people to visit Substack is through social media; twitter, really. You start a Substack when you get good at twitter, then you start doing podcasts and cross-promotion after your Substack starts doing well. I actually like this, except that the platforms are all pretty much monopolies in their spaces. But it's very commercial. 10000 people paying $2 a month, and you can make a nice living.
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- d_sem 1y agoAny 101 tips for starting a blog that will stand the test of time?
- intrasight 1y agoJust deep dive into the technology of your choice. Write clearly and comprehensively about your projects, the roadblocks you faced, and how you overcame them. Another recommendation is to blog on a collaborative project. Could be with just one other person. That way you're reaching a wider social network. What's very satisfying is googling on some technical problem and finding in the top search results my own blog article from several years back. Blog early; blog often.
- d_sem 1y agoany particular platforms that one could host the blog?
- lylo 1y agoGood article. I build and run a new(ish) blogging app (Pagecord - https://pagecord.com https://pagecord.com) and I’m seeing all sorts of niche blogs pop up from cookery, photography, tech (of course!), gaming and science. Great to see blogging making a resurgence - RSS next!
- apparent 1y agoIt seems like the primary "reader" of blogs in the future will be AI. Then some small sliver of readers will be people who clicked through from links shared in an chat with AI.
- joshu 1y agosounds like something an llm crawler would say
- vermaden 1y agoWhat do you mean back? I am running my blog since 2018 and it has never been better :)
- emrah 1y agoBack in the day there was demand due to popularity.. in 2025, people are on various social media sites. I hardly read blogs myself, especially ever since X allowed paying customers to write long posts. Even if you wanted to go back to blogging, you'd have to do it on substack, medium or some such platform with social built in. My money is blogging being mostly for SEO. I don't know who's on the other end of the clicks, but they aren't reading for readings sake..
- dSebastien 1y agoNever stopped publishing on mine (15+ years now). My blog is definitely an important source of credibility for my work, an important part of my sales funnel, and also a way for me to share ideas and grow.