How Often Is 網絡暴民 Jacky's Blog Updated?

Updated

網絡暴民 Jacky's Blog updates infrequently and irregularly. The blog's own anniversary post "十八年" (Eighteen Years), dated Feb 18, 2022, states plainly that there had been no new articles, and that the site was running at a low level of activity ("低度運作") consisting mainly of 流水帳 (running accounts) and 網摘 (link roundups). So the honest answer is: there is no fixed schedule, and long quiet stretches are normal.

What the evidence shows about posting frequency

The visible posts in the archive cluster in two ways:

  • Anniversary posts appear roughly once a year — "十八年" (Feb 18, 2022) and "十七年" (Feb 1, 2021).
  • Reading notes and reviews (開卷筆記) appear in bursts, mostly in the second half of 2020.

A sample of dated posts from the evidence:

Post Date
十八年 Feb 18, 2022
十七年 Feb 1, 2021
試Matters發佈 Sep 23, 2020
開卷筆記 – 永久檔案 Sep 22, 2020
《天能》TENET Sep 14, 2020
開卷筆記 – 為什麼要睡覺? Sep 7, 2020
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Aug 31, 2020
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011) Aug 27, 2020
攻殼SAC_2045 Aug 26, 2020
開卷筆記 – 天堂的噴泉 Aug 25, 2020
阿基拉 Aug 24, 2020
開卷筆記 – 真理機器 Aug 20, 2020
開卷筆記 – 科幻小說不是亂掰的 Aug 19, 2020
開卷筆記 – 人類的前途 Aug 18, 2020
2019開卷記錄 Aug 17, 2020

The pattern is clear: a dense run of posts in August–September 2020, then a gap to the annual anniversary post in February 2021, then another gap to February 2022.

Why updates slowed down

The author explains the slowdown directly rather than leaving it to inference. In "十八年" he writes that the pandemic plus his mood made it hard to pick up the pen ("疫情加上心情,總是覺得很難提筆"), and that reading continued but notes needed to be written properly. He also describes the period as one of gritting his teeth and adjusting his mindset. The "十七年" post strikes a similar tone, noting that 2020 was widely seen as bad and 2021 did not look much better.

What this means if you are following the blog

  • Do not expect a feed with regular cadence. Treat it as an occasional personal blog, not a publication.
  • Anniversary posts are the most reliable signal that the author is still active — check around February.
  • Reading notes (開卷筆記) come in clusters, often tied to a burst of reading, so several may appear close together and then stop.
  • The blog also distributes elsewhere. Posts note cross-posting to Medium, Matters, X, and Mastodon, so a quiet front page does not necessarily mean nothing was written.

If your goal is simply to know whether the blog is alive, the annual anniversary post is the best indicator. If your goal is to read regularly, expect to check back only a few times a year rather than weekly.