====== 令和7年1月29日 ======

I decided to start hosting a website with real content again. The catch is that it’s a wiki, so it’s not really a website or a blog. My main thesis behind this is that, in the past, I’ve tried to essentially run a static site with various index pages with no real organization beyond the blog format and some custom styling and hints.

I think the main problem with a blog or even SNS is the strict adherence to a linear post format. Linear posts are great, but by no means are they essential or even necessarily the core content. I don’t expect that people will read journal style posts, except for the most passionate of readers, but most CMS software and static site software assumes that this isn’t true.

The reality is basically that personal blogs are out of fashion, and hosting one now is essentially crazy. If you’re a journalist and you have a specific niche and following, it does work (look at John Gruber), but I’m really not.

But! Despite this, there are practical reasons to host a website. For example, just having a place where you can publish your own content from time to time is still valuable. In moving to [[:japan]], I’ve learned a lot about the process that would be valuable to share, but otherwise lack an appropriate venue. Now I have one!

Similarly, other formats just don’t work as well. Obsidian Publish seems cool on paper, but it’s not really SEO-able, or even searchable. Same with TiddlyWiki. I like these systems as concepts, but they don’t work well as hosted websites.

There was a post called [[https://j3s.sh/thought/blogs-rot-wikis-wait.html |blogs rot. wikis wait.]] from j3s, and I really actually think the title says it all. People who visit a blog find that it hasn’t had new posts and run away. But a wiki just doesn’t have the same time-based chronology. This led me down the path I’ve arrived at today: hosting a wiki.

I hope to use this as a place to post useful and meaningful content, but also to blog in public again. I think maybe I won’t feel pressured to post new things every week or anything, and I’ll feel more comfortable if it stays online for a while with no major updates.

this wiki is [[:the_quantic_sea|the quantic sea]].