I’m debating moving this blog to Substack and I’m curious as to folks thoughts on that.
When I first moved it to my own site I was blogging enough I felt it was worth it. These days? I’m doing good to blog once a month. And I feel like I’m not getting my money’s worth out of the site. I will likely keep the site, and direct the substack to here (supposedly thats possible anyway) so that you won’t have to change any links. Maintaining the ownership of the domain name isn’t expensive, its the hosting of the page itself that adds up.
In theory I can move all the blog posts over there, so that I won’t lose any posts, testing shows it doesn’t move all the meme posts over correctly (it just appears to grab the first meme) but everything else appears to move over correctly. At the link I posted in the first sentence you can see the last 10 posts I imported to see how it works. I don’t know if that means I won’t be able to do meme dumps at all, or if I’ll have to break them up more, or what. But that appears to be the only potential issue that I’m seeing.
Edit: Ok, it’ll import the first 10 posts and nothing else. I’m waiting response from tech support to find out what I’m missing.
Im rather fond of WordPress and its modularity and ability to add on all sortsa cool gimmicks. Support is good, and aftermarket support is quite good. Also, most hosts already have WP templates and whatnot available for plug-n-play.
Well, thats basically what I’m doing now, I could go with a wordpress.com blog instead, the freebie version. I vaguely remember trying that before I switched to this, I didn’t hate it, didn’t love it….
Having used WP, the free version, for about…mmmm….twenty years now, I may be a little biased but the ubiquity of WP in the blogging space has a large third-party support market that has some very good offerings. As I said, I use the free version of WP but I do sometimes pay for plug-ins. Most notably, I pay for Updraft…a backup/restore utility just in case things crap out on me. I know many people who use Blogger, and they report a hit-n-miss experience in terms of satisfaction. There may be something better than WP, but it’s large aftermarket of plug-ins and, most importantly, people who specialize in tweaking/fixing it make it a good choice. Good luck in your migration.
as long as I can still get to your blog and see the content, I have no opinion on what sit eyou use.
I’m with bogie…as long as I can find you…I don’t understand any of the discussions about WordPress.
Diane