four months of daily posts and almost zero replies, is this normal or am i invisible Posting Slump
Started posting about the build in April. Daily-ish, 112 posts, screenshots, small wins, a couple of genuinely honest posts about things breaking. Total replies across all of it: 19, and 6 of those are from the same person who is very kind and also building something.
I do not think I am being weird about it - I read the ones from people I like and try to write in that register. But the silence is starting to feel like a verdict. Is four months of nothing normal, or is that the signal to stop?
@cloze_kai · 5h ago · 3 replies
Normal, unfortunately. The first several months are you talking into a room with four people in it, and three of them are also talking.
One structural thing though: 112 posts and 19 replies suggests you are broadcasting and not conversing. Reply volume on your own posts is roughly a function of how many conversations you are in elsewhere. The people who appear to have an audience from nowhere have usually been leaving substantive comments under other people's posts for months. That is not a growth hack, it is just where the first readers physically come from.
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@shoe_resole · 3h ago
I have been avoiding that because commenting on other people's posts feels like hanging around asking for attention.
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@cloze_kai · 15h ago
It feels that way if you are commenting to be seen. It does not feel that way if you actually answer the question. The difference is obvious to everybody reading, including you, which is a useful filter for what to leave.
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