Substantially more grotesque: I’m not going to redesign my website and architect an entirely new blog. I’m just going to use… my existing website. 🤢
I’m not sure anyone truly engages with blogs though. They may skim something they’re linked to on here, but I don’t know if people actually follow along with someone’s regular musings.
@james idk about regular musings in the life/opinion sense, but I've found that my technical pieces tend to result in quite a few people reaching out to ask questions, which is always nice and also implies that folks are reading the content instead of skimming.
@gsuberland I’ll be doing my content “reach” a disservice as I will be streaming to do both personal opinion AND code shit
@james I certainly also read others' blog posts thoroughly when the topic is interesting to me.
@james honestly I'm not sure that mixed content harms reach. the majority of traffic I see comes from off-site, and (with one exception for a series of posts I wrote about capacitors) only a few percent of my blog views come from people reading one article and then clicking through to another, and those that do seem to be selective/consistent about which post topics they click through to anyway. there are a few regular readers with notifs enabled but they're a small minority.
@james I don't obsessively monitor this stuff, so maybe there's more binge reading than I've seen, but it's wordpress so they show me analytics every time I open the admin panel to edit or write a post.