[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Does your personal page get any interaction?
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Ask HN: Does your personal page get any interaction?
I'm slowly creating my website (using Hugo) were I can share my art
and hobbies, practice writing in a non-native language (which is
English) and have a slice of the Internet which I can call 'mine'.
Although it doesn't bother me much I was wondering what are other
people experiences on having a website. Do you just have it without
any particular interactions from other internet persons? Or you do
have interactions and feedback to your content? Does it bother you
if you don't get any hits or you maintain your website just for fun
and you find it fulfilling?
Author : kcindric
Score : 8 points
Date : 2022-08-28 20:18 UTC (2 hours ago)
| arthurdd wrote:
| My site is mainly for my own entertainment, and I've only been
| contacted a handful of times with nearly 20 years running it.
|
| It is probably helpful to present a competent image when job
| searching. It shows you can develop and run a site, and that you
| have interests of your own.
| y42 wrote:
| Same here. I don't do any SEO, so my site runs under the radar
| and that is a good thing, because more traffic means more
| responsibility. It's just for showing off my skills, like when
| I'm looking for a new job, and playing with technologies. Right
| now every now and then someone leaves a comment, but that's it.
| qudat wrote:
| I wrote an article about this recently.
|
| I used to write for other people to read it. I learned after
| awhile that writing for other people diluted my thoughts and
| resulted in me not having a clear voice in my writing. Something
| about accommodating the average reader that really suppressed my
| thoughts. Now I write for myself and if it resonates with others
| then so be it.
|
| The result is that my articles have hit the FP multiple times
| since the mental switch.
| Lacerda69 wrote:
| >you maintain your website just for fun and you find it
| fulfilling?
|
| This.
|
| Also I use it as a public repository of information I either
| often forget and have to look up again or want to have accessible
| everywhere easily (for example recipes, restaurant
| recommendations and git conmands)
|
| Ultimalely I just like tinkering on a website without pressure to
| perform well in aspects that are business relevant.
| _bramses wrote:
| Yes and no!
|
| Case 1: a few posts of mine go viral and land on the front page
| on HN or Reddit and I get a few to ten thousand ish views. Those
| days I get three to four emails from people on my contact form
| and we have a brief convo
|
| Case 2: I have a few tutorials that have been linked back across
| the web and receive daily traffic from Google.
|
| Outside of those two cases, most of my posts get little to no
| traction. My analytics are public [1] so you can see an example
| if you're curious!
|
| [1] - https://plausible.io/bramadams.dev?period=year
| derekzhouzhen wrote:
| Some interaction are very useful, such as comments. However, I
| won't allow 3rd party javascript on my websites. It is a problem
| for static sites; So I made https://roastidio.us for exactly this
| situation.
|
| The idea is simple: You merely link to my site, and ask your
| visitors to leave comments there. Comments will be emailed to
| you, with user identity redacted and rate limited. You can reply
| to the constructive comments on my site and ignore the trolls.
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