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diff --git a/build/self-hosted-blogs/index.html b/build/self-hosted-blogs/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aee2643 --- /dev/null +++ b/build/self-hosted-blogs/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +<!doctype html> +<html lang="en" id="top"> +<head> + <meta charset="utf-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> + <link rel="icon" href="data:,"> + <title>What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?</title> + <link href="https://bt.ht/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> + <style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{overflow:auto;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}</style> +</head> + +<nav> + <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> +</nav> + +<main> +<h1>What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?</h1> +<p>2018-10-18</p> +<p>I remember a time on the internet<sup>1</sup> when everyone and their grandmother was running a personal blog. And I mean <em>personal</em> - not hosted on some side platform or a tacked-on addition to the rest of their website.</p> +<p>Nowadays companies and individuals alike use platforms like Medium to host and promote all of their articles, essays and case studies. I understand the draw, and can even list out the positives:</p> +<ol> +<li>A large community already exists under the Medium brand</li> +<li>It's easy to promote your own work and follow others</li> +<li>The platform is fairly easy to setup and implement</li> +</ol> +<p>Unfortunately this has had a pretty severe impact on the blogging community as a whole - no one controls their own blogs anymore. I remember when finding a new blog was an interesting and fun experience:</p> +<ul> +<li>how did they decide to layout the page design?</li> +<li>what typefaces have they decided to use?</li> +<li>what back-end are they using?</li> +<li>how does it look and feel on mobile?</li> +</ul> +<p>These custom self-hosted blogs inspired other developers and designers to create their own blogs or tweak current ones. In a way it was a small factor in pushing what we could do on the web further and further, as designers engaged in friendly competition trying to one-up each others' creations.</p> +<p>I also believe this inspired people to write better content instead of opting for clickbait garbage in order to get "featured" or boosted promotion on the main blogging platform. But I don't even think that's the worst to come of this mass-migration to a singular blogging platform.</p> +<p><strong>All<sup>2</sup> blogs look identical now.</strong> I'm not sure if that was Medium's intention, but either way I personally think it's horrible. The individual personality of most design and development blogs has been completely stripped away.</p> +<p>Maybe I'm just a salty designer with a narrow-minded, pessimistic view on where our blogging communities seem to be heading - or maybe I just have higher standards.</p> +<h2>Refs</h2> +<p><small><sup>1</sup> <i>the design world of the internet</i><br/></small> +<small><sup>2</sup> <i>by "All" I mean the majority</i></small></p> +<footer role="contentinfo"> + <h2>Menu Navigation</h2> + <ul id="menu"> + <li><a href="/">Home</a></li> + <li><a href="/projects">Projects</a></li> + <li><a href="/uses">Uses</a></li> + <li><a href="/wiki">Wiki</a></li> + <li><a href="/resume">Resume</a></li> + <li><a href="/colophon">Colophon</a></li> + <li><a href="/now">Now</a></li> + <li><a href="/donate">Donate</a></li> + <li><a href="/atom.xml">RSS</a></li> + <li><a href="#top">↑ Top of the page</a></li> + </ul> + <small> + Built with <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~bt/barf">barf</a>. <br> + Maintained with ♥ for the web. <br> + Proud supporter of <a href="https://usefathom.com/ref/DKHJVX">Fathom</a> & <a href="https://nextdns.io/?from=74d3p3h8">NextDNS</a>. <br> + The content for this site is <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC-BY-SA</a>.<br> The <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~bt/bt.ht">code for this site</a> is <a href="https://git.sr.ht/~bt/bt.ht/tree/master/item/LICENSE">MIT</a>. + </small> +</footer>
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