Why Have Multiple Blogs?

A few people I follow have multiple blogs that they use for various topics, but I don't really understand why.

I see it a lot on the various blogs I follow; it generally goes something likeโ€ฆ

Subscribe to my RSS feed for posts about [topic A] and subscribe to my newsletter for posts about [topic B]. For posts about [topic C] take a look at this blog instead.

I donโ€™t understand it. I personally prefer to have a single place where I can get all your stuff. If youโ€™re posting about something Iโ€™m not interested in, Iโ€™ll just skip over it in my RSS feed. I donโ€™t have to read everything in my feed reader.

More broadly thereโ€™s also the option to categorise posts, and so one could have a different RSS feed per category. WordPress does this out of the box, but letโ€™s be honest, who wants to use WordPress these days? ๐Ÿ˜‚

I personally donโ€™t have a feed per category on this site, but Iโ€™ve not had any complaints so far, so Iโ€™m not going to bother. In fact, Iโ€™ve not had any complaints about the various topics I cover here, either. Quite the contrary, actually. The feedback I usually get is that people like the various waffle I produce. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

Iโ€™ve been sitting on this post as a draft for a few days now, and then I saw this post by Ivan in my RSS feed, where he talks about people with multiple blogs, and asks whether he should keep maintaining multiple blogs.

If itโ€™s not clear already, my answer would be no. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

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