I used to do exactly this, but 99% of my blog's traffic was bots, so I shut it down.

The web is on its last legs. Why bother publishing if nobody will read it? Nowadays I just write explorative/study notes in a notebook. I retain that better than typed writing anyways.

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beej71 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If I may, one reason to write about it is to understand it more clearly. Even if nobody reads something I wrote, at least I got better at it.

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tayo42 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think he means publishing isn't worth the effort,since he has an offline notebook for writing still.

Unless you think actually going through with the work of making something online is worth the effort.

	▲	conradludgate an hour ago \| parent [-]
		In my experience, it's the act of writing for someone else that makes me learn the most. It helps clear out the assumptions I had which I had been satisfied with but didn't actually have the evidence for. When writing for myself, I don't think about the assumptions as much, but when writing for others they become a lot more evident to me.

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ahmadtbk 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

WOAH ITS HIM

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shaewest 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Genuine question, did you put work into distribution so people knew about it first?

I've known a bunch of people who have said 'blogging is dead' but that's often shared with a lack of sharing the work in the first place or sharing it.

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krapp 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Why bother publishing if nobody will read it?

The vast majority of blogs go unread, even back on the old web. I used to blog almost every day, for years, back in the early 2000s, and probably no one noticed.

But the fun was in the activity and the self-expression, both in blogging and discovering blogs. And if someone happened to come along and say hi it was a bonus. I'm trying to recapture some of that fun but it's difficult.

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cindyllm 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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