The web itself seems to be pretty much over, as far as you can consider it to be a community medium, and the death of blogging is just the most visible aspect of that. I still post on my blog from time to time, but it's basically just out of habit, or because I think I might want to find some interesting link again later.
One such community: https://neocities.org/
I'm not financially affiliated in any way - but I do maintain my own Neocities page and attempt to outreach to those who host sites with similar interests. It takes me back to the Geocities days, which is kind of the point.
I have a similar feeling on HackerNews, that people will jump on me. It's also why I don't use Twitter.
fuck those other humans. write what you want to write.
humans die everyday. their voices are never heard.
you have an opportunity to speak. take it.
sincerely,
council of space bats
In 5 years, you'll be happy that you did it, or sad that you didn't.
Really though, I need to get together some folks who can do usability tests on my writing. (If, uh, anyone is interested and wants to learn about server configuration, please tell me what you think of https://saltstack-from-scratch/
http://amfarrell.com/saltstack-from-scratch/
I tried some different TLD endings to the link you posted but got bored after a few and hit google.
Discourse and Flarum are both so heavy and app-like, it's just not necessary.
Blogging for personal reasons is still a good option (as many would say), but why spend limited time on writing a blog post when you could be working on a side project instead?
In 2016 blogging is just screaming (or whispering) into the void. If there is a conversation around the post, it will be in short comments on aggregator sites (such as this one).
The only area's I have any in depth knowledge are already well covered by others.
I used to blog on & off since early 2000s. It was mostly about my daily life, interests, and photos. It was a lot of fun and many friends read it.
Then I added ads and affiliate links. I hardly made any money from those ads or links but once I accidentally ended up making $200+ from one affiliate link. This got me greedy, and I started to think I can become a professional blogger. I cleaned up my personal stuff from my blog and started to write with a focus of gaining views. This ended up being work and boring. Also my blog suffered negatively as my friends stopped visiting it. I lost my interest too. Started to blog less often.
But this year I will re-start personal blogging. I don't have anything important to say to the world. My blog will be just for my friends & family. Also I removed all ads and affiliate links from it to remove any temptation of making money.
Simple web pages (as opposed to walled gardens of social networks) are search engines' best friends.
As for mine, I actually wrote a static blog generator from scratch in 500 lines of python and all the articles are in pure HTML. Runs on S3 (can move away in a heartbeat), fast as a Ferrari and I wouldn't give it up for the likes of Medium in the long foreseeable future.
Blogging is just putting your opinions out as fact with no way for readers to disagree. I prefer commenting.
The other thing is that that there a handful of disjoint subjects that I might like to blog about: a hobby (that I do have a nascent blog for), things learned in tech, etc. But they don't have much to do with each other, and putting them all in the same place feels silly.
They're all sitting on my laptop, but I worry about keeping topics separate from our employers. I want to keep things classy.
If you've got suggestions how to approach this, let me know.
I've ran various news sites in the past, and I'm working on one now, if that counts as blogging.
But I don't run a personal blog. Why? Because I don't see the point. Anything related to gaming or tech is already discussed on my existing sites and social media accounts. My personal life is kind of boring by comparison, so no one would want to read about it. And anything political goes on Medium or some other such platform instead.
Now blogs are simply the place I put something if I truly write something for enjoyment where that enjoyment needs to be 100% of the reward. This does happen, but rather uncommonly (because: life).
Players play the game. Commentators talk about it.
