Yep. They even bring it up themselves in the very beginning:
>“When I come here I’m on a mission; I don’t care about the rest.”
>“You’re only there for 1 reason: to find the answer to your question.”
>“From my point of view, nothing above the question title exists.”
>“I scroll down and read the question.”
People google a question, click on a Stack Overflow link, get their answer, close the tab. It works perfectly. Just not for SO, who want you to stay on the site after learning the answer.
The whole blog post is Stack Overflow trying to justify them making the UX worse on purpose.
I have been in the same boat for my baking website. Used Buffer and didn't see that many results. Then I abandoned Buffer and came up with a strategy that worked for me.
I realize that twitter was a place where I could get a lot of conversions to the website, but not the greatest for engagement. So I created twitter bot using the Wordpress REST API [1] to just pump out links to my recipes. Instagram, on the other hand, is all hand written and takes me some time. Although instagram barely gets anyone too my website, it has been the best tool for me to build a community around. So much so that I am thinking of abandoning the website.
I'm pretty similar. I let Wordpress push my new posts to Twitter and that's about it. No one engages, no one comments, they just click through to my site. Sometimes I use Twitter to talk to other related businesses, but real actual people don't interact with me there.
Instagram, I get real actual people reacting, but there's no good way to drive people directly to my site from Instagram. I use it more to engage with the audience and not to drive clicks.
I held off on using Facebook for the longest time, but I've had more engagement there than anywhere else. At this point, 90% of my clicks come from Facebook, and about that much of the social media engagement too. My secret? I have a $1/day ad sitting out there generating about 20 likes per week. Once I hit 500-600 likes from the ad, it because self-sustaining. Enough people would engage with posts that their friends would see it and like or follow as well. Sucks that I had to pay to see any benefit, but I paid Twitter and Instagram too and didn't get squat from it.
Oh man, this is far superior to the official Django tutorial I think. MDN really does a good job at holding your hand through the process.
There are moments when going through docs where way too many assumptions are made about what I know. This is where prerequisites and objectives really help out. I know what I am getting into before grokking.
Taking someone's work product under circumstances that they do not want you to is wrong. The fact that it is super easy to do and does not result in him possessing few physical goods at the end of the process does not make this an exception. The fact that they are not offering it to you at a price and level of convenience that you have decided would be just, does not make it right
I am always fascinated by people like you. I assume you are apart of the tech industry. I would have never became apart of this industry if I thought the way you did. I got into this industry because things move faster than the low. Things are too slow. I don't give a fuck about laws if things move too slow.
