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Reigniting a blog after 14 years should be more common!

A trick I used when I restarted my blog in 2017 after stopping publishing in 2010 was to backfill it with a bunch of content imported from other places - mostly my answers to questions on Quora and Ask MetaFilter.

That's the great thing about having a self-hosted blog: it's your site, you make the rules.

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I have a lot of dead blogs in my RSS reader I don't remove for this reason. Maybe they'll start writing again. They've survived many opml exports/imports between different readers over the years.

Backfilling it with content from other sites is such a good idea, I'm stealing that for when friends say it's been a bunch of time since they published

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