When I undocked my blog again after a long stay in station, I expected to find familiar beacons lighting up the system. Instead, local was empty. My old blogroll looks like a killboard after a bad gatecamp—nothing but wrecks and abandoned hulls. The capsuleers I used to fly with through words and hyperlinks seem to have warped off to parts unknown.
It’s not that the EVE community went silent. Far from it. They just moved their citadels. These days, you’ll find them streaming on Twitch, narrating their fleets on YouTube, or debating fits in a Discord channel that pings more than CONCORD on a bad day. The grand blog alliances of yesteryear have disbanded; the starbases are offline. Somewhere out there, an ancient WordPress installation is still spinning in space, quietly auto-renewing its domain while the owner forgot the login.
It’s easy to see why the exodus happened. Writing a blog post feels a lot like hauling PI through lowsec—technically rewarding, but dangerously time-consuming, and someone’s always ready to blow it up before you reach your destination. Streaming, on the other hand, is like running Abyssals with blinged-out fits and guaranteed viewers: instant gratification, visible loot ticks, and chat reactions in real time. No waiting for comment moderation, no fiddling with RSS feeds, no wondering if anyone actually read to the end.
Then there’s the attention economy—EVE players’ true final boss. Once upon a time, people followed RSS feeds the way they now chase killmails. These days, they prefer short, shiny things. If your post doesn’t have a thumbnail or a meme, it’s cloaked. You could write the next great analysis of null-sec economics, but someone will scroll past it to watch a two-minute video titled “I Accidentally Titan Bridged Myself Into a Wormhole”. You can’t really blame them. That’s premium content.
Still, I think there’s hope for those of us who like the long warp. Blogs don’t need to compete with streams or videos; they just need to do what they’ve always done best: tell stories that last longer than a single patch cycle. The universe of New Eden runs on drama, numbers, and nostalgia. There’s room for quiet reflections between fleet fights, for thoughtful dissections of market crashes, or for poetic laments about losing a freighter full of skill injectors because you “just needed to grab one more module.”
Maybe the EVE blogosphere isn’t dead—it’s just in deep safe, cloaked, waiting for the right moment to decloak and fire a fresh volley of words. Maybe the future isn’t about massive alliances of blogs but smaller, scrappier capsuleers who keep the tradition alive.
If that’s true, then I say: hit “undock.” Write that after-action report nobody asked for. Chronicle your wormhole misadventures. Complain about your corp mates in a public post your CEO will definitely read. Be the blog you wish you could still find in your bookmarks.
After all, someone’s got to put the next killmail on the board of history—and it might as well be written by you.
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