That being said, I appreciate your answer and insight.
Edit: why did you stop writing, if I may ask you? (I'm assuming now that not publishing for the whole world to see equals not writing at all, which might not be the case)
That being said, I appreciate your answer and insight.
Edit: why did you stop writing, if I may ask you? (I'm assuming now that not publishing for the whole world to see equals not writing at all, which might not be the case)
I discovered HN comments and that fact that if I write something dumb on my blog nobody tells me, but if I write something dumb on HN everyone downvotes and corrects me, so I appreciate the direct feedback more than the "publishing properly" while scratching the same itch.
I have several comments I bookmarked to myself that I consider "my blog post on subject X". Also it's still possible to know what I think about stuff by going through my profile as if it were a blog, but people don't do that so it's sort of privacy while in public as well.