From:
darkangel5@REMOVETHISBITlineone.net
On 02/01/2018 16:53, Dr Walpurgis wrote:
You alright, son?
http://realmofhorror-blog.blogspot.com/2018/01/site-announcement-taking-break.html
Actually I'm kinda shocked as I wasn't aware anyone read my news page????
But to answer your question, in short, keeping the website regularly
updated has become a bit of a millstone around the neck.
If you want a more detailed explanation, which I'll try and keep as
breif as possible. Basically, when I first started my site some 18 years
ago I just used to update the news once a month and add the odd review
every couple of weeks, when I felt like it.
Now I seem to be getting inundated with review requests and people
asking me to publicise this film and that. Which is nice, but rather
than being able to do things in my own time, its like I'm having to add
stuff on a near daily basis just to keep on top of things and has almost
become like having a second full-time job.
This has been made more complicated by the fact that most people seem to
get their news from social media these days, so everytime I post
something new to the site I'm having to repost it on FB and Twitter. So
that's essentially tripled my workload.
Also, I now work funny shift hours, meaning I now work longer days, but
shorter weeks, so have little time in the evenings to do much of
anything. So I'm spending my days off basically catching up on jobs I
would have normally done after work, then spending the rest of the time
doing website updates, social media posts etc.
Also, I don't seem to attract anywhere near as many site visitors as
once I used to (won't bore you with the reasons, but essentially because
of how the web and search engines have changed amongst other things).
Although I've tried to promote the site through social media, the
problem with Twitter is whenever you make a post, blink and you'll miss
it. And with FB, despite having many subscribers to my page, they
deliberately restrict how many people see your posts in their feed,
unless you pay them to increase your post reach. And as my site is
basically a labour of love project, I'm not inclined to do that.
There is a lot of things I'd like to do differently with the site, but
don't seem to have the time as I'm basically peddling as fast as I can
just to stand still, which combined with the apparent lack of interest
in the site and being unable to promote it properly has left me
wondering if its worth carrying on, especially given how much web
hosting costs.
So I've decided to take a breather whilst I figure out how, or even if,
I want to carry on with things.
I intend keeping my YouTube channel as I am actually earning a couple of
quid off that (not much, but a little) and I recently paid for another
years web hosting, so the site isn't going anywhere for now (note, the
"for now"). But I'm going to have to have a long hard think about things.
In the meantime, I have a number of jobs on the back burner I intend
cracking on with and there are other hobbies I'm going to take the time
out to pursue, but then I'll be having a major re-evaluation.
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Best Wishes
Simon (Dark Angel)
http://www.realmofhorror.co.uk
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