I wrote this three years ago:
“One day, Twitter and other publishing platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or Medium will indeed die, like so many sites before them. And every time this happens, we lose most of the content we created and with it a fair amount of our collective cultural history.”
Own your content.
Publish on your own site.
https://matthiasott.com/articles/into-the-personal-website-verse
@matthiasott Great article, thanks for sharing.
I used to blog regularly and found a lovely community. We are still in contact on other platforms but I miss that space. I definitely had a blogroll🥰
Nowadays I want the convenience of a hosted platform like Wordpress dot com but the flexibility to explore the nuts and bolts.
Unfortunately I have a tendency to get easily lost in the implementation that I forget to, you know, write.
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.
@matthiasott Thanks, another nice read😊
Every so often when I was blogging regularly, I would experience an identity crisis of what the blog should be about. I’d get so wrapped in knots deciding what to write about/or not that I’d lose momentum.
Starting again is a fresh start for new interests but there are also interests I don’t want to leave behind.
Chris Coyier’s site that you linked to is a great example of a personal site that combines interests.
Matthias Ott
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