The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Successful Blogs?

Re:The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Success... by firefoxd on Sunday July 05, 2026 @03:48PM (#48797372)

I consider blogging to be similar to the music industry. To me if AI fully takes over the music industry, I don't see it as a bad thing because I don't think there is a shortage of music in the first place. You could literally listen to a different song from a different artist for the rest of your life. The industry is saturated.

In 2020, I was getting an insane amount of visitors from Google on my blog. Today, Google doesn't bring more than a hundred a day. Yet search impressions are higher than ever. It felt like a failure on my part, but then we always talk about the small web and what happens when the websites become two commercial. Despite the thousands of AI blogs that regurgitate whatever gets posted on HN, we get to read so many good small blogs right here. Blogging is still a fun practice, and I encourage people to do it, even it's only to help them refine the ideas in their mind.

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Re:The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Success... by Earw0rm on Sunday July 05, 2026 @04:09PM (#48797534)

Nope, sorry.

As someone who cares about music, there may be a superabundance of adequate, filler-level stuff which AI can adequately substitute for.

But for any given mood, moment or taste, there's only a finite amount of A-grade stuff.

There's only one Stevie Wonder, and only a handful of great albums of his. There have been similarly valuable talents since, across different styles and genres.

The industry is saturated at the B tier, sure. But without a market for that stuff, how are the labels supposed to grow and develop the few-times-in-a-generation talent that matters?

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Re:The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Success... by another_twist on Sunday July 05, 2026 @10:22PM (#48800015)

Same sentiment here. B-tier hit factory stuff is easy to catch and easier to ignore and move on from. Also happy to recognize a fellow Stevie Wonder fan.

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Re:The Great Blogging Collapse: What Happened to 100 Success... by aboardRat4 on Tuesday July 07, 2026 @10:53AM (#48818685)

>But for any given mood, moment or taste, there's only a finite amount of A-grade stuff.

This finite amount is still enormous. I have downloaded many gigabytes of music from rutracker, and I don't think I'll get through it by the day I'm dead.

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