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1 [1]Skip to main content 2 3 • [2]Matthias Ott 4 User Experience Designer 5 • [3]About 6 • [4]Newsletter 7 • [5]Workshops 8 • [6]Notes 9 • [7]Articles 10 • [8]/uses 11 12 The Year of the Personal Website 13 14 Published by [9] [apple-touc] Matthias Ott 15 16 [10]Friday, 6 January 2023 17 18 • #blogging 19 • #blogs 20 • #community 21 • #indieweb 22 • #personal websites 23 • #rss 24 • #websites 25 26 We all know that it is going to happen. It’s not a question of if, but when 27 Twitter will collapse. By the way: one day, Medium will follow. So will 28 Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Or Mastodon. 29 30 Many people are now desperately waiting for their Twitter archives, hoping that 31 they’ll arrive before all their content is lost for good. For those who were 32 using Twitter primarily for ephemeral chatter, all this isn’t that tragic. But 33 for others, all their posts, conversations, and connections on the social 34 network were a significant part of their online identity. They are about to 35 lose a place on the Web into which they put a huge amount of time, attention, 36 and energy. 37 38 Especially if you are a designer, an artist, a photographer, a writer, a 39 blogger, a creator of any kind, owning your work is as important as ever. 40 Social media platforms might be great for distributing your content and 41 creating a network of like-minded people around you. But they will always be 42 ephemeral, transient, and impermanent – not the best place to preserve your 43 thoughts, words, and brushstrokes. 44 45 In the search for a permanent home on the web, more and more people are now 46 rediscovering the personal website as a place to share and document their 47 thoughts and publish their work. [11]I’ve written at length before about why 48 this is such a good idea: Your personal website is a place that provides 49 immense creative freedom and control. It’s a place to write, create, and share 50 whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission. It is also 51 the perfect place to explore and try new things, like different types of posts, 52 different styles, and new web technologies. It is [12]your playground, your 53 platform, your personal corner on the Web. 54 55 That’s why it warms my heart to read articles like [13]Bring back personal 56 blogging by Monique Judge on a site like The Verge or to add my site to 57 projects like [14]Bring Back Blogging by Ash Huang and Ryan Putnam, who 58 encourage us all to get into the habit and publish at least three blog posts 59 until the end of January. Oh, and if that’s important to you, as Chris Coyier 60 notes, [15]There Can Be Money in Blogging, too. 61 62 So how about we make 2023 the year of the personal website? The year in which 63 we launch our first site or redesign our old one, publish a little more often, 64 and add RSS and [16]Webmentions to our websites so that we can write posts back 65 and forth. The year we make our sites [17]more fussy, more quirky, and [18]more 66 personal. The year we document what we improved, share what we learned, and 67 help each other getting started. The year we finally create a community of 68 critical mass around [19]all our personal websites. The year we [20]take back 69 our Web. 70 71 I’ll start tonight. 72 73 ~ 74 75 Have you published a response to this? Send me a [21]webmention by letting me 76 know the URL. [22][ ] Ping! 77 11 Webmentions 78 79 [25] Photo of Jeremy Keith [26]Jeremy Keith[27] The Year of the Personal 80 Website · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer January 9th, 2023 Especially 81 if you are a designer, an artist, a photographer, a writer, a blogger, a 82 creator of any kind, owning your work is as important as ever. 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