[spaceheater]

I wonder how the decline in personal blogs and websites (who even starts one today, when you can just be popular on youtube/twitter/instagram), affects rankings due to lack of websites linking to other websites.

[DanielBMarkham]

We've fallen into some kind of long-form desert.

I used to read programming books not for a laundry list of features, but to get inside the author's head and start thinking about programming the way they did. It's not as simple as a simple declarative statement. Many times the author themselves couldn't express the value I got. I don't see how you reduce that any and I'm not sure I'd want to consume it if you could.

[rchaud]

Blogrolls and Webrings are largely extinct unfortunately.

Even for the big media sites, they mostly link to other pages on their own website.