Understanding the forum engagement.

TooOld2rock-nRoll said:
Do you think I would have more feedback on such things here at the forum?

Historically the discussion forums have been where most of the discussion takes place. The name should reveal why.

There are people who read the blogs, there are people who don't, both types exist. More people tend to look at the forums than the blogs.

The site as a whole is much less active than it was in years past, as many people shift to social media and sites like Reddit. Even so, the site has plenty of daily and monthly active users. Just because nobody comments doesn't mean nobody sees it. They just might not have any meaningful comments to add, or meaningful replies to answer questions.

TooOld2rock-nRoll said:
Are you actively against personal ramblings in this environment?

Meaningful ramblings and off-topic discussion goes in The Lounge. Anything on topic goes in the forum for the topic as best you can, or moderators will bump it to the right area if there's a better fit. Pure ramblings may be moderated into oblivion.

TooOld2rock-nRoll said:
Have you noticed it?

No, have not seen it. I occasionally look at titles of blogs. But it's pretty rare. And even if I do comment on a blog, and the author replies, I do not get a notification. So I would have to manually check back to see whether anything happened there. Which I don't really want to do.

Whenever I have some rambling and would like some reaction on it, I just make a thread. If you mostly want to ramble and want people to read that, I don't know what to do. The forum isn't really so conducive to that.

I once followed a blog about development of a game, and that was interesting to read. To see how the game took shape. I always looked forward to the next post.

In my experience though, such a blog is rare. As a result, I mostly gave up on them and don't actively look at new entries.

Every now and then my eye catches a potential interesting blog topic. However, when I look into it, it's often nothing more than a catching title and a link “look at my site if you want to actually know what the blog is about”. There is no actual content. In other words, just click-bait. In my view that is just plain advertising their own site instead of a blog.

TooOld2rock-nRoll said:
The blogs seam to have decent views, but just occasional comments

If a discussion emerges, it shows blogs are not really meant to discuss, due to some technical things:
Quoting isn't implemented, notifications also aren't implemented.

(That's no critique or request from my site, just an observation)

Hummmm so my initial instincts were right…..

I feel social media can't and shouldn't replace forums like this.

They are products and are not capable or trustworthy to maintain knowledge, as they are likely to be discarded or become ghost towns. While forums tend to be maintained by one or just few well engaged individuals.

Damn, you could go back to 2004 and see the kind of shit I was up to!

Yes, sure, we are out of fashion, but this kind of interaction that goes beyond the mere petty technical disputes may be a important part of what is missing from more recent generations of developers.

Telling them that “mastering the tool is not the objective” seams quite more important and urgent than it was before.

Alberth said:

There is no actual content. In other words, just click-bait. In my view that is just plain advertising their own site instead of a blog.

Yes: https://youtu.be/hAtbFwzZp6Y?si=kCMfVF8XZM-ADjvp

frob said:

The site as a whole is much less active than it was in years past, as many people shift to social media and sites like Reddit. Even so, the site has plenty of daily and monthly active users. Just because nobody comments doesn't mean nobody sees it. They just might not have any meaningful comments to add, or meaningful replies to answer questions.TooOld2rock-nRoll said:
Are you actively against personal ramblings in this environment?

The idea is not to be seen, but to have conversation, not even with me, but with the different ideas that are presented and negotiated during conversation. This can and usually is used in pure technical argumentation, but I do understand your concern for deranged discourse though.