We Publish Less, We Get More Exposure
11 days ago: Slop Cannot Replace Everybody (the Story of Perl and Universities)
The goal of a site like ours is freedom, not popularity. When the year began we published at a pace of ~8,000 pages/year, but then we slowed down a bit and began focusing on longer articles and higher signal/noise ratio. We invested the time in things we felt mattered a lot more. As a result, readership actually went up, not down, and we earned more respect.
Slopfarms are coming to realise that quantity means nothing in an age of abundance of trash (like LLM slop). It's not about how much one publishes, it's about the relevance and accuracy.
Believing that by eating more you will become taller and better looking is like believing that LLM slop will make your work better and result in fame. In practice you become a fat pig and die young.
I've just checked many old pages in UbuntuPit that were made by LLMs. They're all gone now (404s). UbuntuPit must have decided to delete them all. It began in late 2025. Failed experiment.
UbuntuPit is coming to realise that quantity isn't what comes to matter or truly "count", especially when quantity comes at expense of authenticity. █