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by saltypixel 30 days ago
Building, marketing, social, PR, blog cadence: the blog always gets bumped. Real pain. My concern though: my blog's voice doesn't fit cleanly into any of your four tone buckets. Closest is "Conversational" but the actual register is more specific (first-person maker, the kind that admits prior wrongness), and readers are partly there for that specific register. How does Blogr handle voice matching beyond surface tone? Reading existing posts is a start but the harder thing is the things you don't say. Curious whether you've found that to be a ceiling.
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This is something I'm still working on. The 1st person takes have a higher hallucination rate, and I did not want to promise that for my launch. It's taking more time to refine these takes.

I know that most blogs and built-in public creators are leaning into the vulnerable side and getting a tone that would be vulnerable without it lying and creating a negative impression on readers is too risky for me to add it yet. I don't want it to say, "I crashed my site yesterday," and users think, "Whoa, this is not a viable product."