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+title: "Tired of Blogging"
+category: blog
+abstract: Thinking of the web of the past
+date: 2023-10-27T12:13:20+02:00
+year: 2023
+draft: false
+tags: []
+---
+Recently, this site has had another phase of semi-hiatus which had two distinct reasons: I've been doing things with music theory (I'm not in a position to write about that), and, well, I'm a bit tired of *blogging*. I'm starting to think that the very nature of a *blog* is not cut out for me. Or is it the other way around?
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+As Vloggers say, "hear me out": there is a clash between what constitutes an important *blog* thing and what *I* consider to be important.
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+I am a bit old-fashioned. I listen to 70-year-old recordings of long-dead musicians; I wear a mechanical watch; I use software way past its prime time; I read books getting close to being a century old; I watch movies from the end of the last century. It's not the only thing I do, but there is this very real trend towards that I don't care about what's new. 
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+In most cases, I *despise* modern things and trends with its Tik Talks, Netflixes, smartphones, LLMS, and NFTs. Basically, what Silicon Valley has done to our lives.
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+And yet I have a *blog* which, by its very nature, puts new things on top. I don't write about current affairs, but what I published recently gets the prime spot. 
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+The best *blog* I know is written by [Ruben](https://rubenerd.com). I love reading what he publishes, following his descent into vintage computer madness. But he published daily (on a slower period, at least), so there is always something new. This however also means that there is no structure, no way to find interesting stuff from 10 years ago. 
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+This blog is an E/N site. It makes mind-dumping easier, and having it online is a breeze thanks to Hugo and rsync(1). But looking at it from any other point of view shows, that it's just a bag for random things. The only structure here is chronology. There are no connections[^tags].
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+[^tags]: Tags and categories are nothing more than a prosthesis, a pretend play. Looking at stats, people rarely use them, and if they do it's those categories on top.
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+Back to Rubens's blog, I enjoyed his [Omake](https://rubenerd.com/omake.opml) section even more than the main dish. I come back for the posts, but it's the Omake that made the first impression. It has a structure and allows for a sense of discovery. It's just a list, but it's nice to play with it.
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+And it's *ever-green*. This is something I have another problem with. Since *new* post is what people will see, what is the incentive to go back and update old posts? [Vermaden](https://vermaden.wordpress.com) does it, but do I? No. The only time I changed something in the past was in the sad case of having written text so bad that I would be ashamed to show it to my mother. But is the last thing always the most important? No.
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+Where does this leave me? I'm rethinking how this site will look in the near future. It's already halfway there, since the main *topics* are displayed and presented in the main nav. This leaves me with chronology, which I come to think of as a problem rather than a solution. I'm starting to think I would be better off moving them into dedicated sites (bsd.sapka.me, for example), each treated as a *book* and not as an update list. This gives space to play by having dedicated layouts, maybe even bulletin boards or (dare I say it) guest books.
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+But I would also like to still have a place with a flow of consciousness. A simple list of updates and a single place to follow all those sub-pages.
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+The sites of the past I've created were separated into *updates* page and the actual content. We might have written about Cell's forms and SSJ4[^db], which were separate *articles* but an *update* would tell frequent visitors about it. I think this is a much better way than putting everything in the latter if you want to focus on a single subject.
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+Biggest risk? *Google* and *Duck Duck Go*. *Fadon*, *Wikia*, *Wikipedia*, *FB*, *Twitter*, and *Reddit* have such strong positions there that any fight for the visitor is futile. In 2023 it's impossible to just rely on people simply bumping into a random page. Those, clearly inferior alternatives to smaller size sites have such strong positions that gaining any popularity is impossible. Don't even start me on *Youtube*.
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+The voyage is the goal though. Not everything has to have a goal of total domination. I may create a fansite dedicated to *Grim Fandango* or about living in the terminal just for the fun of doing it. Just a bunch of texts with logical structure and be done with it until the content becomes obsolete.
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+Maybe the web will fix itself and such form will regain its rightful, prime spot. With the younglings moving from *Reddit* to *Discord* there is a chance. 
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+[^db]: Yup, I started my webmaster journey writing about *Dragon Ball* and then anime
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+This blog post is sponsored by letters W, E, B, and an existential dread after reading ["Fan Sites VS Fandom: A Case Study"](https://brainbaking.com/post/2023/01/fan-sites-vs-fandom-a-case-study/). I really miss the old internet and the fansites. Screw you, *Wikia*!
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