I need to stop posting like this is a microblog, but I keep running across people condemning websites which have no purpose and it makes me so uncomfortable about my own. Does my website *need* to exist? Does it have a purpose? Do *other* people like it?
Does that matter?
No, not so long as Im enjoying making it, but the anxiety is there. I need to stop exposing myself to those kinds of thoughts.
I do wish I had more to offer others than the occasional recipe or photos of my rats, though. There are so many amazing artists here and greater minds than mine, I feel so inadequate when all I do is catalog virtual pets and animated gifs.
I don't think anyones site /needs/ to exist but it sounds like it has a purpose to you and thats what matters! make your site for you and if other people like it thats just a nice little bonus :3 recipes, rat photos, collections, etc are a perfect reason to have a personal site imo ^^ the beauty of personal sites is that you can see people sharing whats important to them that you usually dont see on the main web
what matters most is that you're making a space for yourself on the web. and if other people question the reason for its existence, then it's simply not for them
I do wish I had more to offer others than the occasional recipe or photos of my rats, though. There are so many amazing artists here and greater minds than mine, I feel so inadequate when all I do is catalog virtual pets and animated gifs.
Posting what you love is "enough" IMO!
I don't think anyones site /needs/ to exist but it sounds like it has a purpose to you and thats what matters! make your site for you and if other people like it thats just a nice little bonus :3 recipes, rat photos, collections, etc are a perfect reason to have a personal site imo ^^ the beauty of personal sites is that you can see people sharing whats important to them that you usually dont see on the main web
what matters most is that you're making a space for yourself on the web. and if other people question the reason for its existence, then it's simply not for them