I think I’ve been unconsciously negatively prioritizing traffic growth on ribbonfarm. The marginal cost of traffic (overages on my hosting plan) is not worth the marginal value of new readers. It’s a kind of stock buyback. Growth without a good idea driving it is a net liability.
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Replying to @vgr
Seems like for your content a better target than pure reader growth would be like, getting assigned in college courses. or finding untapped readership internationally.
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Replying to @hamandcheese
that's actually happened quite a bit. At least half a dozen times, a student in some course somewhere has emailed me asking questions because an instructor assigned it as reading.
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