What Do People Read on Malix.se?

What do people actually read on Malix? This week’s statistics made me stop focusing on the numbers and instead think about which posts you find – and what they actually have in common.

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It’s Thursday, and that’s usually when I take a look at the statistics here on Malix.

But today, I’m not going to get caught up in the numbers.

Instead, I found myself thinking about what you choose to read.

When I look at the past week, I notice something that makes me curious. You move between very different parts of Malix.

You read about ADHD and everyday life. About how we view and treat other people and about society. About relationships and reflections on life. About children, NPF (neurodevelopmental conditions) and school. And now, some of you are also finding what I write about my app, One Thing at a Time.

At first, these might seem like very different subjects.

But are they really?

What do people read – and what connects these posts?

I started thinking about this when I saw which posts continue to be found.

A post offering life advice to younger people continues to be read long after the day it was published. Posts about ADHD and everyday life are being read. Reflections on how we talk about and view other people find readers. So do posts about school and how we treat one another.

And now the app has become part of all this too.

When I look at everything together, I begin to see a common thread that I may not have noticed quite as clearly before.

The person in everyday life.

How do I function?

What happens to me when life becomes too much?

How am I treated?

How do I treat others?

How can everyday life become a little easier to understand?

How can I take care of myself without having to achieve something first?

These are questions that appear in many of my posts, even when the headlines are about completely different subjects.

Old posts don’t become old

There is something else I like about looking at the statistics.

A post doesn’t have to be finished with its life just because I have written the next one.

Someone can find an older post today.

That actually changes the way I think about Malix a little.

I still publish a new post and move on to the next one. But behind the latest post, a library is growing. Someone might open a door to ADHD, someone else to CFT and compassion, and a third person to NPF and school.

And perhaps someone finds a post that I myself had almost forgotten about.

What are people searching for?

Google gives me another small clue.

Malix is beginning to appear when people search for things such as CFT, CFT therapy, compassion therapy and being belittled in a relationship.

I can’t know why someone searched for those particular words.

But I can see the words.

And they make me think.

Several of them are about subjects that I have spent a lot of time writing about and working with.

Perhaps Google is also beginning to understand a little better what can actually be found here on Malix.

And then the app became part of it all

This week, I wrote about finding the courage to show my app, One Thing at a Time, to other people.

It almost felt as though I had suddenly started doing something completely new.

But when I look at what you read, I wonder if it really is new.

The app is also about everyday life. About stopping for a moment and noticing what is happening. About structure without judgement. About recovery, food, home, movement and the inner compass.

Perhaps the app isn’t a side track from Malix.

Perhaps it has grown out of the same questions I have been writing about here for a long time.

Between the lines

Statistics can show me which pages someone opened.

They can show me that an old post is still being found or that someone searched on Google and ended up on Malix.

But they can’t tell me why someone stayed.

That is the part I find most interesting.

Behind every click is a person I don’t know.

Someone may have simply stopped by and left. Someone else may have recognised themselves in something I wrote. And a third person may have found a thought that stayed with them after leaving Malix.

The statistics show the click. They don’t show what happened afterwards.

Reflection

For a long time, I have seen Malix as many different parts.

ADHD. CFT and compassion. Reflections on life. NPF and school. Society. Everyday life. Dreams. And now the app.

But perhaps I have been looking too much at the headings.

When I look instead at what you choose to read, I see something that connects it all.

The person in the middle of ordinary life.

Not the perfect person. Not the finished person.

But the person trying to understand themselves, other people and everyday life a little better.

Perhaps that is what Malix has really always been about.

Questions for you

What first brought you to Malix?

Which posts usually make you stay and read?

Is there something you have read here that made you continue thinking afterwards?

At first, I was going to ask: What would you like me to write more about?

But then I stopped at that question.

Because most of the time, I write about whatever happens to be living in my thoughts. Something happens, I start thinking about it, turning it over in my mind – and eventually it becomes a post.

At the same time, it isn’t really true that I can’t write about things other people want to read. In the past, I sometimes wrote about different subjects that companies paid me to write about. Someone else could give me a topic, and I would turn it into a text.

But Malix is something different now.

Here, I still want my writing to begin with something that sparks a thought in me.

So perhaps a better question is:

Is there something you would like to leave with me to think about?

Who knows. Perhaps your question will spark a thought that eventually becomes a new post.

You might also like to read

Everyday Life, ADHD and Being Present

Life Advice for Those Who Are Younger – Don’t Forget Yourself

The Oskar Series – Children, NPF and School

Test My App – Finding the Courage to Let Others Try What I’ve Built

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