Why all personal websites die(theyellowarchitect.com)
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Why all personal websites die
https://theyellowarchitect.com/blog/why-personal-websites-die#title
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I'm very happy to declare that my personal website is alive and kicking. It went on coma a few times. Now, I have revived it and is alive. It is 20+ years old.
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My personal website has been online since 1994 and have no intention of dropping anything.
Why does this read like it was written by an incel?
The author seems to be mainlining Luke Smith's kool-aid (I think he runs landchad.net). Even though Luke is clearly intelligent and occasionally makes a good point, he has a habit of draping everything in this weird alt-right-esque meme-language that makes it all fairly hard to swallow, although that may well be the point.
How old is that guy. I can’t help but get “fellow kids” vibes from him.
Apparently we're not the target audience.
When I got to "I write a lot.", my first thought was "That's a shame."
Not my proudest moment.
After stepping back for a minute and assuming the author is reasonable, I'm left to conclude that he made a strong choice to speak to an audience that he felt like he could and should reach. If that's true, and that voice is the way to reach them, then it's also possible that the target audience is turned off by the sort of voice that would reach me.
There are a lot of assumptions there, but I would also be making assumptions if I were to go with my initial thought.
When I got to "I write a lot.", my first thought was "That's a shame."
Not my proudest moment.
After stepping back for a minute and assuming the author is reasonable, I'm left to conclude that he made a strong choice to speak to an audience that he felt like he could and should reach. If that's true, and that voice is the way to reach them, then it's also possible that the target audience is turned off by the sort of voice that would reach me.
There are a lot of assumptions there, but I would also be making assumptions if I were to go with my initial thought.
I think it is the use of the term "landchad". I've never heard it before. Maybe it's a thing, but it sure sounds like a phrase from the incel world.
Actually kind of agree. Need to go through revision. Sentences feel unnecessarily long and drawn out.
Perhaps just personal websites that are not legible will have to die...
Although I do have to admit, this page had a very GeoCities vibe to it. Needs a few more animated GIFs, though.
Personal websites die because the interest to keep them waning. Basically: a website MUST also means a personal domain name, that's like a home address, you can't be a netizen without one. But the domain is more interesting for emails or as a DNS-based way to quick reach something you host than a website.
Website as a living CV? Well... It's very nice as an idea BUT you do not normally want to give your CV to the world, you craft CVs tailored to their target, a generic one might be counter productive.
A website to share your thoughts to the world? Well... They are not regular so in general you might have a period where you publish much and a longer phases where you publish nothing. The sole thing that makes such websites usable for readers is RSS so those who read do not need to check regularly but find new posts pushed in their favorite client. Something similar to a newsletter with some differences. Something NOT much popular these days because on one side big&powerful do want people on their platforms for munge more data and direct people more, on the other side most people do not even know RSS and do not want to spend time installing and maintaining something.
Long story short a personal website have unclear and limited purpose and since demand a bit of effort...
Website as a living CV? Well... It's very nice as an idea BUT you do not normally want to give your CV to the world, you craft CVs tailored to their target, a generic one might be counter productive.
A website to share your thoughts to the world? Well... They are not regular so in general you might have a period where you publish much and a longer phases where you publish nothing. The sole thing that makes such websites usable for readers is RSS so those who read do not need to check regularly but find new posts pushed in their favorite client. Something similar to a newsletter with some differences. Something NOT much popular these days because on one side big&powerful do want people on their platforms for munge more data and direct people more, on the other side most people do not even know RSS and do not want to spend time installing and maintaining something.
Long story short a personal website have unclear and limited purpose and since demand a bit of effort...
They also die because the author dies, sadly enough.
Interesting read, particularly the mention about hypercore. In that sense the read is a bit anachronistic - it's geocities style regarding layout and text, but it is a keen observation about the sad state of an internet basically consisting of siloed networks and seo/sea marketing.
Coincidentally I made a quick and dirty overview of activitypub, hypercore and scuttlebutt this morning on my personal site https://olin.monster/pages/decentral/ - sometimes HN comes up with something that I was looking into just hours before. Are we a predictable bunch or just surfing the waves of cyberculture together?
Feel free to hyper-link :-)
Coincidentally I made a quick and dirty overview of activitypub, hypercore and scuttlebutt this morning on my personal site https://olin.monster/pages/decentral/ - sometimes HN comes up with something that I was looking into just hours before. Are we a predictable bunch or just surfing the waves of cyberculture together?
Feel free to hyper-link :-)
[Bear](https:/:bearblog.dev) has a lot of active personal websites (some of them very neocities). I guess we’ll see how long they stay active.
GitHub Pages is free to get started with, likewise, so is CloudFlare Pages, but obviously KF debacle makes that hard to recommend.
I see personal websites more than I have done since 2006. I'd say there is actually somewhat of a renaissance with concepts like Indieweb and Gemini protocol.
I see personal websites more than I have done since 2006. I'd say there is actually somewhat of a renaissance with concepts like Indieweb and Gemini protocol.
4chan speak in longer articles is cringe
The numbers quoted as in ‚95% of all personal sites are dead‘ do not seem sourced but more of personal estimation quoted with overconfidence just to get the author‘s point across.
To be honest: I stopped reading after the third section and only scrolled through the rest.
Concluding from the URL and the OP‘s user name I‘m assuming they posted it themselves so please take my comment as constructive criticism.