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?
Some time ago @revskill posted a request for peoples blogs here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081
The responses were aggregated and posted to Github here: https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs?tab=...
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!
It takes a bit of curation, but I find substack's algorithm to be quite good at recommending other bloggers I'd be interested in.
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
I mainly discover new blogs from links from other blogs I read or from HN.
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
Besides Hacker News, I mainly discover new blogs via links from blogs I already read.
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!
What's your blog?
As you're aware, HN users have an editable about section in their profile. eg:
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=bobbiechen announces https://bobbiechen.com/blog
From blogroll sites, webrings and blogroll pages of other bloggers. When you get into small web, indie web world you will discover lots of nice blogs. If you do not mind checking mine, you can discover a lot via my webrings and cool links pages actually.
For finding blogs I either pick them up organically here or on lobste.rs.
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.
I think I'd like to try lobster.rs -- would you move sending me an invite? (Email in profile)
What's your blog, I want to see it.
People share their blogs here occasionally. Both technical and personal blogs.
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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I recently found: The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News
HN.
Mostly a few static articles, my machines (openbsd), mastodon feed, but.. it's blog-like! :-)
Try to submit your articles to email newsletters within your topic. Example: https://iosdevweekly.com/
There's a lot of great ideas here already. The only other source I regularly use is marginalrevolution.com, although it's somewhat niche.
I've discovered (and rediscovered) several blogs through MR over the years. I'm not a fan though of the recent trend of linking to X threads and essays.
While I much prefer blogs to exist outside of walled garden-type websites, I've begrudgingly come to terms with Substack.
my page http://elpis.ws located on web 1.0 hosting http://web1.0hosting.net/
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)