One proposal someone gave me was to have a very simple blog with a very minimalistic theme. Would you prefer that? Or something more complex?
I'd like to have a fairly simple way for someone to subscribe to it (let's hope this doesn't mean federating it, lol).
One of the problems I always ran into when trying to keep up with a few blogs was having to check in on it every day or every week. I prefer to just have the updates flow in as they're made. I figure that others would be similar.
One option might be something like RSS (I'm curious how many folks use things like RSS readers, this is usually a feature which is in demand when someone is building sites). Are there other things which someone might also want?
Email subscriptions are one possible option but it would take a fair bit more complexity, particularly to reduce the probability of a mail provider deciding to just toss the thing in spam. Would readers regularly check emails?
I'm thinking that if I'm going to target a wider audience (other than just a few developers), then I might have to do something more than just bare minimum theming (even if there is a minimalistic appeal to it).
Then again, quite a few more mainstream themes have been moving towards minimalism these days.