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Well you've been down that rabbit hole for a while... But you also staunchly under-monetize ribbonfarm. Not sure the real lesson is that blogs are getting too cost prohibitive to run.... My static site blog is free :) (Don't get half a mill visits tho)
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Yeah, I'm not opposed to monetization in principle, just need a mode that's in line with how I like to operate. Right now, it's looking like best option would be to retire the existing WP-based ribbonfarm and move the future to substack.
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Sometimes it feels like ribbonfarm and slatestarcodex are the last regular longform blogs still doing their thing... everybody else has moved on to newsletters and medium etc
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I might be done with hands-on experimentation with new models and piggyback on stuff like Roam and Substack. We'll see. It does feel to me like blogging as such is over, and wordpress has become more a high-end CMS for businesses and things
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I think it's gonna evolve. "over" feels like too strong a statement to me. Maybe this era of blogging is over. If you kill ribbonfarm you could become the hero of the next era 🤣
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Yeah I see that - but equally roam and substack are very single purpose so hard to compare them with WP. Maybe the truth is blogging is fragmenting (obviously true) to the point that "blogging" is meaningless. Future could be as much about language as about tech/product
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