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diff --git a/build/self-hosted-blogs/index.html b/build/self-hosted-blogs/index.html index aee2643..738ae81 100644 --- a/build/self-hosted-blogs/index.html +++ b/build/self-hosted-blogs/index.html @@ -1,42 +1,55 @@ <!doctype html> -<html lang="en" id="top"> +<html lang="en"> <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> + <link href="/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> + <link href="/rss.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" title="RSS feed for blog posts" /> +<style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1.33;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{border:1px solid;overflow:auto;padding:5px;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}.footnotes{font-size:90%;}</style> </head> <nav> - <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> + <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> </nav> <main> -<h1>What Happened to Self-Hosted Blogs?</h1> +<h1 id="what-happened-to-self-hosted-blogs">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>I remember a time on the internet1 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>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> + +<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>All2 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 id="refs">Refs</h2> + +<p>1 the design world of the internet +2 by “All” I mean the majority</p> <footer role="contentinfo"> <h2>Menu Navigation</h2> <ul id="menu"> |