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Re:You don't need analytics on your blog by Andrex on Sunday December 24, 2023 @01:50PM (#38755607)
I always viewed comments as the true decider, for me personally. A view could be anything, but someone taking the time to leave a comment or reply to somebody else is a great motivator for further writing.

But I'm of the "a blog without comments is not a blog" folks.

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Re:You don't need analytics on your blog by medimikka on Sunday December 24, 2023 @04:18PM (#38756942)
It's 2023, just federate your blog and pull in comments from across the ActivityPub spectrum. If you're into low effort, just webmention.io it, else there are premade solutions for WordPress, 11ty, Jekyll, and many others.

Comments are so 2003 pre-Trackback/Pingback.

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Re:You don't need analytics on your blog by marginalia_nu on Sunday December 24, 2023 @02:27PM (#38755981)
I don't have comment fields on my blog. Comments often feel low effort and noisy. Also no analytics.

Figure if someone wants to reach me there is email, and if someone wants a discussion, they can post the article here or on reddit or whatever...

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Re:You don't need analytics on your blog by javchz on Sunday December 24, 2023 @02:03PM (#38755719)
Depends a lot on the niche. A lot of people are just readers in tech blogs, and only comment if you made a mistake. But if you have a personal blog, the most random opinion can get dozen of comments even with a fraction of the readers.
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