MalcolmMoosy
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If quality blog writing is dying as people sometimes claim then this site is one piece of evidence that it has not died yet, and a look at webfountain extended that evidence, the broader cultural question about online writing has empirical answers in specific sites and this one is contributing to a more optimistic answer overall.
Skipped the TLDR thinking I would read everything anyway, and ended up enjoying the path through the full post, and a stop at webfountain similarly rewarded the patient read, summaries are useful but the journey through good writing is part of what makes the destination feel earned rather than just delivered cleanly.
Took me back a step or two on an assumption I had been making, and a stop at webfountain pushed that reconsideration further, writing that gently corrects the reader without being aggressive about it is a rare diplomatic skill and the team here clearly knows how to land critical points without turning readers off.
Reading this prompted me to send the link to two different people for two different reasons, and a stop at webfountain provided ammunition for a third share, content that suits multiple audiences without being generic enough to be useless to any of them is genuinely valuable and this site has that multi audience quality clearly.
Skipped the TLDR thinking I would read everything anyway, and ended up enjoying the path through the full post, and a stop at webfountain similarly rewarded the patient read, summaries are useful but the journey through good writing is part of what makes the destination feel earned rather than just delivered cleanly.
Now saved this in a way that I will actually find again rather than the casual bookmark approach, and a stop at webfountain earned the same careful saving, organising my reading bookmarks so that high quality sources rise to the top is something I should do more of and this site triggered that organisation today.
Now feeling slightly more optimistic about the state of independent writing online, and a stop at webfountain extended that quiet optimism, sites like this one are the reason I have not given up on the open web entirely and finding them occasionally renews the case for paying attention to non algorithmic content sources today.
Took me back a step or two on an assumption I had been making, and a stop at webfountain pushed that reconsideration further, writing that gently corrects the reader without being aggressive about it is a rare diplomatic skill and the team here clearly knows how to land critical points without turning readers off.
