Ask HN: Where are people sharing their blogs these days? I really like blogs, and I've started blogging again like this past week. I want to share what I write but get some nice reading lists going to. Today I basically use HN as my blog curator, but I yearn for more. Where do you find a blogging community nowadays? How to discover new blogs and how to share your content? |
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You can download the OPML file and load it up into your RSS feed. I did start visiting the various blogs to find some i'd enjoy reading, but there are so many!
I share my blog on HN and Bluesky and a few niche communities like Mander (when it makes sense).
Most of my traffic right now comes from chatbots citing my posts, StackExchange, or links in documentation.
My website is https://bcmullins.github.io
As for sharing my own blog, it's mainly here for me as well, or in open comments sections where that's encouraged.
So... I'd also love suggestions on other ways!
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bobbiechen announces https://bobbiechen.com/blog
It's also pretty trivial to find what writers other bloggers enjoy based on the "reads" list tab. My algorithm is:
-> Find blogger you like -> Check their substack "reads" for other writers -> Repeat
The more niche your blog is, the more chances you'll have at sharing it on highly specialized subreddits - otherwise you can always drop links to your blog in HN conversation threads if it feels relevant. That's how I developed a bit of readership on mine.
And in the interest of sharing blogs, a classic is "Old New Thing" written by Raymond Chen. It's highly technical around Microsoft/Windows but I enjoy how incredibly thorough it is.
Also, your social media algorithm might have adjusted to feed you blog related content.
Having said that, here's my own personal blog - https://www.rxjourney.net/
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This is a community of ascetic bloggers and web builders that can be seen as sites from the 90s, there is access to HTTP (it was very important for me because I would like the site to open from absolutely any piece of iron, given its direction and subject). I am writing about the old Internet, the formation of the Internet, and what is happening at this time in small web.
Perhaps you will be interested in this course as a direction, this is not neosities, it is more minimalistic and rough (but only in a verd look)
Mostly a few static articles, my machines (openbsd), mastodon feed, but.. it's blog-like! :-)
While I much prefer blogs to exist outside of walled garden-type websites, I've begrudgingly come to terms with Substack.