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by mikro2nd 1465 days ago
This. This is why you don't want analytics on your blog/website/platform. Analytics leads you into crowd-pleasing, veering away from your own insights and truth. I've probably written on the order of that many articles, too, over the past uhh... ? years... and if any of them made a "splash" I probably wouldn't even know! Don't care.

Expanded version of this thinking: https://one.mikro2nd.net/posts/why-no-web-analytics-are-to-b...