Re:I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]
by betenoire on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:58PM
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The key issue here is discoverability...
Yet here we are discovering it, specifically because he made the video
Re:I made a robot to cut my hair with scissors [video]
by swsieber on Thursday July 16, 2020 @03:22PM
(#23862796)
That is the point - youtube makes him a lot more popular not because it's inherently better, but because there is better discoverability on youtube than on blogs.
The key issue here is discoverability. We used to have search engines, but with SEO tricks and Google wanting to prop its platforms higher, that doesn't seem to work anymore.
Then, there is the matter of following the blog for updates. Not everyone knows what a RSS feed is. Heck, I wanted to subscribe, but there's no meta tag, nothing in the footer or about page that gives a link to an RSS feed. I even looked at the HTML, hoping to know which blog engine this was running, then looked for its common RSS feed URLs [1], but that didn't work.
I don't disagree with your other points, but If I ran a blog, I would do it for myself and my readers, not as a billboard for advertisers to show them ads.
[1]: https://github.com/getgrav/grav-plugin-feed