It's important to the writer, surely? Why write if you have no readers? I mean, ultimately that's why we're writing these comments here to each other rather than each on our own web sites?
The attitude before discovery was if you build it they will come. I see most people pushing discovery/SEO becuase it is complex and people can be convinced it is needed.
A writer needing an audience is nothing new. I think it is just as valid to create no matter what comes.
A writer needing an audience is nothing new. I think it is just as valid to create no matter what comes.