it's looking as though I could just email episodes to the people who actually want them and stop flailing around trying to attract people's attention and being disappointed when I don't succeed.
Out of curiosity: would emailing the episodes to people who actively sign up for this actually be significantly less work than just putting finished episodes onto the website? Because having them on a website does have quite some advantages. Most of all, late-comers to the party can join anytime and read up to the current point.
I understand that trying to attract people's attention without much of a response is disappointing, but that's how it is - websites usually only aquire so many visitors per time, and the vast majority of them silent. Word of mouth helps, but even that is usually very limited, most of all because there's already way too much "look at this Cool Thing Here!" noise on the internet. For anyone not associated with you our your word-of-mouth-network, stumbling upon your work is pure chance so it will only happen scarcely and slowly. But it surely wouldn't get any likelier without the webpage, right?
So, if putting stuff onto the webpage isn't taking up lots and lots of time and effort that you would rather put into something else, I strongly recommend keeping the site!
Replacing the elaborate news-posts you've done recently with the short "new episode available" posts you did before might be worth a thought, if they're not attracting more readers. I'm guessing they are probably much more work than the short notes? But the site itself, I definitely hope you keep. :-)
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Date: 2014-05-16 07:05 pm (UTC)Out of curiosity: would emailing the episodes to people who actively sign up for this actually be significantly less work than just putting finished episodes onto the website? Because having them on a website does have quite some advantages. Most of all, late-comers to the party can join anytime and read up to the current point.
I understand that trying to attract people's attention without much of a response is disappointing, but that's how it is - websites usually only aquire so many visitors per time, and the vast majority of them silent. Word of mouth helps, but even that is usually very limited, most of all because there's already way too much "look at this Cool Thing Here!" noise on the internet.
For anyone not associated with you our your word-of-mouth-network, stumbling upon your work is pure chance so it will only happen scarcely and slowly. But it surely wouldn't get any likelier without the webpage, right?
So, if putting stuff onto the webpage isn't taking up lots and lots of time and effort that you would rather put into something else, I strongly recommend keeping the site!
Replacing the elaborate news-posts you've done recently with the short "new episode available" posts you did before might be worth a thought, if they're not attracting more readers. I'm guessing they are probably much more work than the short notes?
But the site itself, I definitely hope you keep. :-)