Today is the 19th Anniversary of the beginning of the Never Yet Melted blog.
I’ve done 17,902 posts before this one and had millions of readers in countries all over the world. The exact count has been lost because NYM has outlived all the original statcounters.
At its peak, I had 30-50 thousand readers a month.
My blogging efforts have declined in response to the decline of blog significance. Competition from social media, like X, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and Substack, has taken away much of our former traffic.
Also, I am increasingly fed up with the WordPress nerds’ feckless updates which wipe out foreign accents and special characters (like apostrophes, quotation marks, and M and N dashes, substituting gobbledy-gook and which change image link formats thereby making all older postings imageless.
Google and some other ads used to cover partially my server costs, but the other ad sources died and Google gave me an ultimatum about removing the Charlie Hebdo Mohammed cartoons, so I told Google “Gotz von Berlichingen!“.
In fact, I have decided to switch over to Substack myself. I’m thinking of writing one or two original essays a week myself and giving up daily blog posts.
Look for an announcement of my first Substack post very soon, and do subscribe.
Thanks to everyone for your past support,
David
Bill in Tennessee
I will gladly follow you.
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Even if it’s tiresome for you, David, it would be good to see the occasional post (if only links to Substack) just to see your blog through to 20 years. Next year I’m coming up on a similar anniversary, for my small one-subject specialty blog. I don’t think I’ll press on afterward but 20 years seems a decent target.
I was there for the early, great days of blogging, and I miss them, and I appreciate your work these last many years.
tcp
thanks muchly for your contributions, you (usually) rock!
George
Thanks for so many years of blogging. Show me the way to Substack
Lee Also
Regular reader here for a very long time.
I can’t afford substack subscriptions. A few dollars get, a few dollars there — it adds up very fast to a lot of money. If you charge, I will very much miss your work. I rarely read Don Surber any more. Or Joshua Washington. I’ll miss you, to
Scaevola
I’ve been following for some time. I don’t remember what originally drew me here, whether it was a post from Little Green Footballs (while it was still a conservative place), but I’ve been reading since my college days. I think I’ve only ever commented once before; I am content to lurk and read, as I’m sure many are.
The early 2000s were a wonderful age of conservative bloggers, and yours is one of the very few which I still read.
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