Probably makes a difference, yes.
My understanding is that blog posts are not regularly displayed for all users – people who use iNat in a language other than English or one of the network sites instead of .org do not see all blog posts. This is apparently intentional. I vaguely thought there was some other staff post where this was talked about, but this is all I managed to find in a search:
Blog can otherwise be accessed by scrolling to the very bottom of any page on the website and clicking on the link in the footer, but this requires that one remembers to check it regularly for new posts…