[mumblemumble]

Perhaps there could be a ranking that takes posting frequency into account, and lets people decide whether they want to see higher- or lower-volume blogs.

Perhaps not a straight ascending or descending by frequency. For me, the sweet spot seems to be no more than once a month. More if it's one that does something like a weekly post aggregating interesting articles from other blogs.

[mlent]

That's a cool idea! Adding an "advanced search" is something I've been thinking about.

Gives people more control over their personal "algorithm" and what they value most when reading personal blogs.

Hadn't thought about frequency but that could definitely be something you could automate based on RSS. Thanks for the idea!

[pc86]

Why would you penalize a blog with 3 authors who publish 3x the articles of a personal blog? Why would you penalize higher volume at all? Trying to ascribe anything close to quality based on volume is like trying to grade developer productivity and/or skill by LOC.

[grep_name]

He's not asking them to be penalized, just to let people choose what their speed is. I get the same problem on mastodon: there are users there whose posts I really appreciate and find interesting but I had to unsubscribe from because their posting frequency flooded out everything else. I just check up on their feed separately every once in awhile instead

[mumblemumble]

I'm not asking for some strict formula, more some ability for people to describe what kinds of blogs they're after in more detail in a way that's flexible, but not overly fiddly to use.

I'd possibly put a shared blog under a similar category as the ones with weekly roundups. Which is exactly why I threw out that example - I don't want hard-and-fast Google-style rules, because I would expect that to work out about as well as hard-and-fast Google-style rules ever does.