Ribbonfarm Is Retiring

I really don't get how and why are blogs dying.

Because people don't go surfing on the web anymore, they stay in the same facebook-twitter-instagram-netflix-amazon-reddit loop forever.

That's not death. That's non-virality.

For extroverts and fame-seekers, I guess that feels like death. But it's not.

False, while you try to make this a moral point, the reality is where the audiences go the content goes.

Sorry that’s just life.

Source: worked on this research at Google for decades. We accelerated the issue unfortunately.

That again only implies less popularity, if anything, not death.

I’m sorry to belabor this but you probably don’t know how growth and death cycles work.

Every day people churn in and out. As more churn out for audiences less new ones come in. Therefore it dies.

You should be sorry for yourself with your sad patronizing attitude.

What? I’m sorry are you not on a public forum where people share their expertise?

I think maybe you could just reread this as you being informed by someone who worked on this for many many years at internet scale.

It’s ok to have less knowledge or be misinformed about something. We all are. It’s not ok to respond to that with insecurity and insults.

I'm not insulting you, I'm merely stating you have an aggressive and patronizing attitude comment after comment which is a fact.

> I’m sorry to belabor this but you probably don’t know how growth and death cycles work.

> Sorry that’s just life.

> I think maybe you could just reread this as you being informed by someone who worked on this for many many years at internet scale. It’s ok to have less knowledge or be misinformed about something.

It's okay to share expertise, but this is better done with data (which you have provided none) and without that very sad aggressive attitude. "I know better, because I know and you don't" is no argument.

"The numbers for this and that huge blogging platform are down year after year" is an argument, yours isn't.