Where do you blog nowadays, or in the past?
Weiwei
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Do you still blog, and if so, on where? It feels like a lot of folks hand-make their websites now if they want to blog. (I have my own website hosted on GitHub)
For more self-serve options, it seems like we have: Tumblr, Wordpress, Blogger, Medium, Weebly, Neocities(!)
I kind of miss the blog-o-sphere, and blog rings, wishing that there are more of them.
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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover
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I used to write on Medium a ton, especially when I was keen to increase distribution for my posts. Now I publish on https://ryanhoover.me or https://weekend.fund (if it's WF specific), primarily to centralize everything and "own" the SEO.
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I write a weekly newsletter on Substack at https://lyle.substack.com. I said newsletter, but to me, it feels essentially the same as blogging did years ago. It’s dead simple, which forces me to focus on my writing and shipping a new piece each week. Plus, I own my email list and can take it wherever I want to if I eventually want to move elsewhere. I’m more than happy with my decision to start publishing my writing there.
My longest stint was on wordpress.com, looking back seems like [I started in 08](https://bentsai.wordpress.com/20...) (coincidentally regarding Enso, which is where I learned about Aza ;) ). In the past year or so, I moved that over to bentsai.org, which is 11ty-based (hosted on Netlify via GitHub).
Having said that, it seems I'm perpetually starting new blogs on various platforms, experimenting with them. Suffice it to say, I've tried a lot. I've got a few frustrations about my current blog (boring design for one).
multiverse.plus is really interesting to me, but I haven't had time to explore. I like the idea of making it easier for people to be creative with their blogs :)
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I have a Tumblr but honestly Instagram is the closest thing to a true blog, functionally speaking. I find it to be the most intimate and where my friends and followers engage the most. I have also made lots of new friends through it (similar to twitter), and gotten to know existing ones better. The fact that it's mobile-first (portable and always on me), gives me the shortest path from emotion/thought to post. This is important because insights and observations always come to me while I'm on the go.
You know how they say that the best camera is the one that's always on you. It's similar to that. I do wish it were more interactive though since it's quite one-directional. Discussions tend to get moved to DMs.
For more fully formed thoughts, I still post to my Tumblr then cross-post to Medium to reach more people.
Testing out getpublii.com recently — themeing was annoying but writing has been breezy. Is an electron app that runs locally, easy to write/edit things, publishes static html flies, click once to sync with server. End result at https://blog.byjasonli.com/
I do still maintain/edit/run a 10+ year old Wordpress group blog, which is still sturdy and stable for the most part, and Wordpress has been great for longevity
