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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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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.
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Mainly I'm a bit sick of keeping up with the hands on part of the tech. I'll be happy to never update a plugin or fix some crappy theme CSS issue ever again. At this point in the evolution of web tech it feels a bit hairshirt to do this stuff yourself if you aren't a programmer