A couple of days ago I got an email from FeedSpot. It’s founder informed me that our blog has been selected by their panellists as one of the Top 90 RPG Blogs on the web. A couple of years back this news would have been extremely exciting to me. These days I shrugged and almost deleted the email on the spot.
The main reason is probably that my excitement for blogging has waned. Back in 2008 when I started this blog, we were still a community. The RPG Bloggers Network tied everything together. The more experienced bloggers supported the newcomers. People wrote guest posts for other blogs and helped to shine light on less well known sites. It was an exciting and fun time.
Slowly but surely social media started to draw traffic and reader interaction away from the blogs itself. Nowadays blogging often feels like yelling into the void. Sure, there are still blogs with good or even great content out there, but it just doesn’t feel the same. Perhaps it’s also my age showing. Heck, when I started this blog I still had hair and it wasn’t grey. ^_^
The other thing that bothers me is that these Top 90 RPG Blogs mentioned even contain the Official RPG Maker Blog which is a blog run by the company which creates RPG Maker for various platforms including PC. It’s a video game or rather a tool to create video games. Another one listed is “The CRPG Addict” which I personally love, but again, it’s not about TTRPGs. I feel that the “panelists” just did a sloppy job. This further devalues the significance of being a “TOP RPG BLOG”.
The vast majority of the blogs listed are proper TTRPG blogs, though, and from what I gathered most of them are even still active. If I wasn’t an old curmudgeon I probably would have recommended you check out some of the blogs on the list.
