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ends May 31st
senryu by M. Nakazato LaFreniere
Ben Huberman wrote a good-bye post because they are closing Daily Post on the 31st. They will leave up the previous posts but the prompts and challenges will stop.
In the comments of his good-bye post, I wrote this (sorry no paragraph seperations because I wasn’t sure if the comments would allow it — and anyways I wrote it in a stream):
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“I started a blogging meetup about six months ago. Almost everyone had started their blogs long time well before then but stuttered to a stop because no one visited their blogs. I introduced them to Daily Post and suddenly people got their first likes/comments. It is an incredible positive reinforcement. Several of them decided to start a second blog and a few bought a blog plan instead of the freebie — all because they got positive reinforcement and it made them realize they had another hobby they wanted to blog about too. I get you’re quitting the DP even thought it helps to grow your business becuase you want to do something else now. However, I think you all should put this same theme up for free where pingbacks show on a grid on one page so that a community around daily prompts can be created somewhere else. People need that positive reinforcement or 80% of blogs stutters and dies. They need that sense of community. You don’t know how excited people were to get their first like on a blog that was more than two years old. I found a linky system but th blocks don’t show on the main page unless you have a blogspot site. Having all the pingbacks set out in a grid on the page like that made it really easy to click on them. I would click 10-20 at a time; on occasions even more than 100 (for the photo challenge). When you have to scroll down to view pingbacks in the regular one-line comment paradigm, I click at most 10 because I have to parse through the extra lines and if the group gets big enough, the pingbacks roll over to another page. I never go to the next page and I am betting most don’t make that jump so those pingbacks on the next page lose out on readership. Having that grid theme with pingbacks on one page in a grid available for free will fix the problem because we can try to start a prompt community for new and regular bloggers somewhere else. We’ll be spread out for awhile but eventually one or two prompt spots will become popular enough that people will learn how to find them. There are daily word prompt sites but they don’t have the community — the grid made creating a community much easier because it encouraged people to read other posts and like/comment them. I get you’re quitting but please give us the theme to do one-page pingback grids so our communities can continue without you.”
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I’d like to see that pingback grid theme be made available so we can create a new daily post prompts spot together. Curious Steph is collecting names of people willing to host a prompt day — we’d be jumping from blog to blog on different days. I’ve volunteered for a day. Still I think the grid pingback theme would help the community to continue on different blogs because it’s a lot easier to look at different pingbacks — I notice I click more pingbacks on that grid than I do on the a scroll down a comments list of pingbacks.
I hope some of you will comment on Ben Huberman’s good-bye either to ask them not to quit (apparently they tried to quit a couple years ago and the response was so vehement they continued for a couple more years) or to ask them to give the pingback grid theme for free so we can continue the prompts on other blogs.
I will miss the Daily Post. I met most of you the first time over there either on the daily words or on the weekly photo challenge. I am really sad they are ending it. More than anything your comments and likes have encouraged me to keep writing and I’d like newish bloggers to have that. I would not have started writing daily without you all encouraging me.
I started a blogging meetup months ago and most the people had blogs from months to more than two years but no likes/comments. I suggested Daily Post and within two weeks everyone had a like and/or a comment. It encourages people no end to get that. Suddenly you’re no longer writing into a void. I feel like I’m part of a community now but I’d like an easy community to find for newish bloggers too so I can point — “go there! You can share there and people will like you!”
Anyways that’s my two cents. Love you all and thank you! Really, you all are awesome. I get you all are thinking that compliment was overblown but it’s how I feel. I am glad I met you all–I have made it a point to read/view everyone’s blog who liked or commented me so I do feel like i’ve met you a little. That’s why I also know most of you had daily post posts and that’s how a lot of us have met.
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