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band-aid move that will only temporarily help... I need a deep rethink/pivot of why/how I'm doing ribbonfarm at all
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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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But I agree, in some big ways it would be a mistake. I'd have to give up experiments like blogchaining etc
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Maybe you need to launch a new site to experiment with new models / tech. I feel like WP becomes barnacle crusted after a long period
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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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I think substack and roam are two poles of the shift to the next thing... solid serialized content vs. solid hypertextual content... barbell. WP is caught in the middle as not great at either.
"blogging as such" = as represented paradigmatically by modern WordPress, not generally
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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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