Should I quit publishing?

[BikeGremlin]

I've written a short post reflecting on whether it still makes sense to keep publishing articles and videos online - in the current state of search, social networks, and the broader Internet.

Should I quit publishing?

It's a personal take - not asking for sympathy, but if it resonates or you've had similar thoughts, feel free to chime in (I am also curious to see if this thread gets any views over the following weeks and months ).

Relja

 

[VlPo]

Yes, the question is really philosophical. It seems to me that you just need to answer the question "why are you making these publications?"
If it is for the "masses", then it is necessary to play by the rules of these very "masses". Including taking into account the "policies" of Google and others...
If "for yourself" or for "a searching (adequate) person will find something useful for themselves," then it doesn't really matter what algorithms someone has...
I found your website when I was looking for answers to my questions

Yes, this is my subjective view of the situation. That's why I eliminated my website dedicated to photography a long time ago

 

[it's_a_wonderful_world]

I second everything VIPo says. The days of the open internet are gone. I think the most viable solution for people wanting to create a community online nowadays is more grass roots (comment sections and personal connections), but even that is hard. I heavily, heavily appreciate what people like you do, but unfortunately less people are straying off the beaten path to find your stuff nowadays.

 

[BikeGremlin]

Thanks for the thoughtful replies guys.

It is both comforting and sad to see you also notice the same problems.

For now, I plan to keep writing and recording on my own terms - but thanks to the ever stronger censorship and other trends, it feels a lot like making personal notes. Gone the full circle.

@VlPo I suppose photography websites, and photographs in general, are also "killed" by the modern trends and technology (everyone is "a photographer" today, with smartphone cameras and software filters).

@it's_a_wonderful_world yes, with Google (and many users) turning to "AI" answers for everything, people would really need to deliberately go out of their way to find my stuff - and that is not a realistic thing to expect.

 

[VlPo]

I suppose photography websites, and photographs in general, are also "killed" by the modern trends and technology (everyone is "a photographer" today, with smartphone cameras and software filters).

Exactly...

P.S. By the way, your website opens normally again in the mobile version of Vivaldi.

 

[wrcole26]

I've written a short post reflecting on whether it still makes sense to keep publishing articles and videos online - in the current state of search, social networks, and the broader Internet.

Should I quit publishing?

It's a personal take - not asking for sympathy, but if it resonates or you've had similar thoughts, feel free to chime in (I am also curious to see if this thread gets any views over the following weeks and months ).

Relja

I enjoy reading your posts and the subsequent comments. I received this email today with several of the recent posts, and I don't recall seeing similar emails often (maybe I missed them), but it was a nice reminder that you're there and I immediately clicked through to look at several of them. My vote is to keep publishing!

 

[NightZT]

Some friends and me have a youtube channel where we do some very dadaistic-like art. Several years ago quite a few people visited that channel and most of them were just confused, but some of them stayed and we gathered a small but active fanbase. When we upload a video now, the only people watching it are already our fans, almost no new visitors. We still keep on making videos because we just like producing them and find them entertaining for ourselfs and probably our small fanbase. But discussing with some strangers was always very entertaining too.

I understand your thoughts on the subject and would also find it very understandable if you greatly reduced the number of your publications. But I'd be really sorry, I watch all your videos, I also like to check out the forum and think you are one of the few educational YouTubers left, who actually concentrate on the content and not on being even more pompous, flashier and more spectacular. That kind of thing just really annoys me.
So many bike bros with cool music, special effects, rankings, unboxings, etc in front of their expensive equipment that no mortal can even afford, where you get the feeling that they just take themselves way too seriously but at the same time the actual information content is very scarce. In comparison to that I find your videos with lots of precise information, but at the same time not deadly serious and funny in combination with the Slavic accent simply much more appealing and also relateable.

 

[BikeGremlin]

Some friends and me have a youtube channel where we do some very dadaistic-like art. Several years ago quite a few people visited that channel and most of them were just confused, but some of them stayed and we gathered a small but active fanbase. When we upload a video now, the only people watching it are already our fans, almost no new visitors. We still keep on making videos because we just like producing them and find them entertaining for ourselfs and probably our small fanbase. But discussing with some strangers was always very entertaining too.

I understand your thoughts on the subject and would also find it very understandable if you greatly reduced the number of your publications. But I'd be really sorry, I watch all your videos, I also like to check out the forum and think you are one of the few educational YouTubers left, who actually concentrate on the content and not on being even more pompous, flashier and more spectacular. That kind of thing just really annoys me.
So many bike bros with cool music, special effects, rankings, unboxings, etc in front of their expensive equipment that no mortal can even afford, where you get the feeling that they just take themselves way too seriously but at the same time the actual information content is very scarce. In comparison to that I find your videos with lots of precise information, but at the same time not deadly serious and funny in combination with the Slavic accent simply much more appealing and also relateable.

Thank you for the kind words and understanding.

Dadaism was mostly "popular" (if that is the right word for the movement) in the western parts of my (now no longer existing) country (Yugoslavia) - mostly in Slovenia. Faded after the WW2. It did have an impact. Some traces can be found in some works of the Slovenian band Laibach (they are mostly industrial-sound, but use irony, parody as criticism, and absurdity):