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Yeah, so I was wondering : " how many people are still keeping a blog updated ?".
Is keeping a blog still a thing on the interweb ? Or, are we all supposed to be addicted to social media stuff like X, Facebook, and Tiktok ?

Also : How many of you are updating a blog on a personal domain ? And for how many years have you done it ?...
(I would have deeper questions but then this topic / questions would be too long.)

I personally think this would be a great time to blog again

yeah, there is this new trendy platform called "pouet" everybody seems to be using!

Oh yeah I heard about it on usenet. It looks neat , but the registration process is a little cumbersome to me.

Ja.. social media just got more addicting than ever. It would be nice to read some blogs instead. The only problem - how to find them.

I do write on my blog and keep it up to date, and host it. Actual (old) humans still read it, which is why I do it. But in general, I feel at this point blogging is mostly the act of creating free material for the AI/LLM companies to repackage without attribution and sell for profit without compensation.

At least the traditional search engines and Youtube brought you discoverability, traffic and a chance to build a brand or whatever you felt was important to you.

(Also, ironically, if you host your content then YOU are the one paying for their stealing, by having to use ever more expensive hosting services in an attempt to keep the blog afloat under the ever rising scrapping traffic)

But also I might just be the cranky old man yelling a the clouds.

I also hate the lack of regulations when it comes to AI/LLM training data collection, but it's not like blog posts were ever protected from theft.

The general wisdom is, if you don't publish a novel idea in a scientific journal under your name, it will be blatantly copied without proper attribution by others. It could be also unintentional, like a person would simply forget where he read about an idea first. Also, it's not a common practice to reference blog posts in papers (or any non-permanent URLs for that matter).

But I think what Shantee meant are just posts with general ramblings that are usually of little value.

Honestly, writing about a never seen before scientific innovation in a random blog is such a power move. :)

I'm considering making a personal website again, maybe "blog" on it or whatever, but for now I just have a static page that links to other places I exist at.

I do not Blog. Blog seems to have taken over for much of the indie "mags" though.

Some coders blog which is interesting. I have developed the 7id wavelet myself though, so I do not need to read. (So you do not need to do this for me, though.)

P&L.

Ihave a personalwebpage that date from before these things were called blogs, and I still update it with information about my various hacking projects. It sometimes ends up being unexpectedly useful to other people, although I do not get much activity in website comments these days.

I think I managed to block the scrapperbots, for now.

Well, one-time demo writeups often come in blog form nowadays, with the occasional update even. :)

Slummy's codingwithballs, platon's write-ups (HAM Eager, HAMazing, Magnum A.I.) , the Eon tech blog series at tbl.nu, gigabates' Inside the Machine write-up, grip's Amiga/retro musings at datagubbe.se come to mind. There are probably more I forgot!

I myself made a habit of blogging regularily (write-ups, Amiga/Teletext stuff, nerdy nitpicking) at heckmeck.de.

I actually started a blog just last year. It has only one post right now, but I'm planning to do more ^^

Losso's blog is very nice!

i vlog instead

Nice blogs indeed!

It would be nice to have a feed on pouet (one more tab) from prolific demoscene bloggers for more exposure.

I have a statically-generated microblog here. It was sort-of my placement for my Twitter profile but it's only a casual thing and not often updated anymore.

i think i'm close to my 25th anniversary year of hosting only placeholder content (usually some logo design, i changed those around though) on my website. sometimes with 'soon' written underneath to give that false hope for actual content, perhaps even blogging, one day. i think it's quite an achievement still! \o/

I self host a blog over here focused on Atari ST techincal things and anything that I'm interested in. Often times it also hosts other esteemed people's thoughts.

We still maintain https://www.ctrl-alt-test.fr, we publish long and infrequent articles since 2010.

I also have a personal blog, which I restarted 1.5 years ago.

I'm bad at social medias, but I sometimes advertise my articles on Mastodon, Reddit, or Hackernews.

19 years of https://trixter.oldskool.org/ still going. I don't post regularly, but instead use it to post things that I don't want buried or lost in other places (reddit, forums with a post limit, etc.).

(Click "demoscene" category if you only care about browsing that stuff from the past 15 years, although it stops in 2018.)

That would be a nice replacement for the removed newsfeed.

Perhaps not "prolific" avoiding a fanboy vs EGO stuff, but feeding with a content from the coders, artists, musicians who share interesting information about techniques, "how to do" or tech achievements. =)

Ah, I meant any blogger. Ofc with some small exceptions for blogs that blatantly violate community guidelines.

that feed for demoscene blogs would be nice!

fyi, articles and other content are sometimes shared on https://www.reddit.com/r/Demoscene/