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I've had an interesting conversation with [Mr Creosote](https://dosgame.club/@mr_creosote) at Mastodon a few months ago that lingered in the cavernous debts of my subconsciousness until another related thought dragged it back up. Mr Creosote is the founder of [The Good Old Days](https://www.goodolddays.net/), a befriended retro game review website that---and this is the beginning of the problem---gets almost no views.
I've had an interesting conversation with [Mr Creosote](https://dosgame.club/@mr_creosote) on Mastodon a few months ago that lingered in the cavernous debts of my subconsciousness until another related thought dragged it back up. Mr Creosote is the founder of [The Good Old Days](https://www.goodolddays.net/), a befriended retro game review website that---and this is the beginning of the problem---gets almost no views.
The Good Old Days has been around [in various shapes and forms since 2000](https://www.goodolddays.net/article/id%2C-11/): it is no stranger to text-based internet publishing, and yet, according to Mr Creosote, nowadays, almost nobody cares. One of the major causes could very much be the shift towards video game reviews on a certain singular huge hosted platform. The decline in visits caused the following question to pop up:
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But yes, I admit: I still prefer _one_ mail over no mail at all. As Henrik Karlsson writes, _a blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and [make them route interesting stuff to your inbox](https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/search-query)_. I still prefer writing in public, thereby hopefully positively influencing my little community the same way as my little community influences me.
Others approach writing in public differently. For example, Julia Evans' [tactics for writing in public](https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/) can act as advice for very technical howto-like writers. These do not align with how I envision the act of _brain baking_, but these might make much more sense than the rubbish you're currently reading.
Others approach writing in public differently. For example, Julia Evans' [tactics for writing in public](https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/07/tactics-for-writing-in-public/) can act as sound advice for very technical howto-like writers. For me, these do not align with how I envision the act of _brain baking_, but for you, these might make much more sense than the rubbish you're currently reading.