A Site Nobody Reads
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LFA | 2025-09-17 | #phlog #thoughts
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Lately I was talking with some acquaintances about our personal
websites, blogs, phlogs, etc., and it always comes out the
"...nobody reads me..." thing: "That was too much work for a place
that nobody reads," "Well it's ok because nobody reads me,"
"For a couple guys who read me"... I'm sure if you have a personal
site and you have no delusions of being an influencer, it sounds a
lot like you.

I must confess that I thought the same thing about my site, but all
of a sudden I found that my article on Gopher has had some impact,
I've received encouraging and nice email messages and it was
translated into French and published at linuxfr.org. All this has
taught me that people who have a personal site with the sole purpose
of putting out their things and who don't have any stats, metrics
systems, and other intrusive things, really don't know if anyone sees
what they put out there until they start getting emails, Mastodon
comments or the like.

I'd tell everyone who thinks that no one reads her site or that
there are just a couple of guys reading it, you really never know
if somebody reads you, or who reads you, until one day they surprise
you with an email and you realize that, after all, someone is
reading you :-)

I want to encourage everyone who has a personal site and who has no
delusions of being an influencer to keep doing the things that you
love and keep sharing them in your personal site because even if you
don't believe it, someone is enjoying all the amazing things you do.

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[1] gopher://lucio.albenga.es:70/0/lfa/en/articles/2025/20250830-gopher_a_simple_alternative_to_the_bloatware_of_the_web.txt

[2] https://linuxfr.org/users/bublbobl/journaux/gopher-une-alternative-simple-aux-bloatwares-du-web