If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs
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HN comment orderThe best way to bring back blogs is to start with your own. It looks like this is the author's fourth post and s/he hit a home run with the top post on HN. But that's rarely how things work. The thing few people tell you when you start blogging is how futile it will seem - for a long, long time. You'll start by posting something you put a lot of work into. You'll publish, thinking of all the…
As a minor counterpoint: I've come to dread blogs and newsletters because so many of them are written by grind culture freaks who only write faux-insightful SEO'd content as a way to build an audience to sell snake oil to. These days the only blogs I trust are the ones I see on the top of HN or lobsters, which is unfortunate because I have interests beyond tech and I find it very, very difficult to find good blogs I…
I agree, the death of blogs was a tremendous loss to the web.
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1800
- Total comments
- 938
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-16 | If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogsFirst breakout · Best thread | TTTThis | 1186 | 614 |
| 2021-09-20 | If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020)Latest 20+ point return | artkulak | 613 | 323 |
| 2025-03-19 | If I could bring one thing back to the internet it would be blogs (2020) | colinprince | 1 | 1 |