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Content going back ages, mostly died out when blogging did -- with social media slowly dying, I'm hoping the overall tread will reverse.
To lose 95.8% of your site (judged by the 8467 out of 8838 subreddits gone dark) and not have a revenue impact at all raises some questions, primarily if there are any revenue streams based on usage, or only on monthly subscriptions and non-view-based ad contracts?
This is generally the thing Seattle is missing -- people that organize and then tell people to show up at X place on Y date. Most of the time, it's a million people that all say they would love to hang out more, but nobody ever makes solid plans.
The main issue I see is that most devs simply do not care, and/or dev management not prioritizing it unless required by regulations.
The biggest problem I see is that isn't likely ever going to change.
That said, I disabled that creator follow nonsense the moment it landed. Not because of the URL tracking, but because it is stupid.
The better health habits you can lock in now, the better -- it's only going to get harder from here on out to lay that foundation.
I know of English and Liberal Arts majors that are doing very well in tech fields doing work other than development: program management, developer relations, customer success, sales, marketing. Some in development too, just not as many.
The difference with those folks is that all of them kept a broad understanding of where they wanted their career to go, and allowed themselves to take on broader responsibilities and deeper challenges as time went on.
It's entirely possible that by the time I was into the second paragraph that I had simply adjusted to the writing style and was able to proceed without any issue; I haven't the time to properly compare the two.
Exactly. That's not renting, and co-op owners aren't landlords unless they turn around and rent the unit out.