Well, it’s been somewhat interesting trying new things the last few months, but as of next week I’m officially back blogging at Sidedown.org rather than having the WordPress blogs. It just didn’t work for me the way I wanted.
I’ve never been a break up/make up person, but I guess I just needed some time off from ORG, to get my head together, to figure out what I really wanted from that online relationship. Ultimately, I enjoy the custom interface that Pete and I built for Sidedown, it is my blog backend of choice, plain and simple.
So, no more WordPress, no more Blindsided News at WordPress… just back to regular ol’ Sidedown.
To the few people who checked in on the publishing work while I was here, thanks! I hope you head over to Sidedown.org and reconnect with me there.
See you at ORG!~Jw
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It’s been “fun” tracking down all your far-flung blogs and their corresponding RSS feeds, but I’m happy to have it all back in one place. The only thing I’ll miss from your stint with WordPress (unless you’re gonna upgrade the ORG site) is comment RSS feeds. That’ll be sad.
I find that somewhat amusing, considering how little commenting ever happens on Sidedown. There’s practically nothing to keep track of.
Ah, but when there is, it’s gold! And, at least, back in the first ORG days, too often I’d make a comment and then my mind would move onto other things while a thread of conversation would take off and eventually fizzle out unbeknownst to me until days later when I’d go and maybe check out the latest comments and find what I missed now that the steam is gone. This doesn’t happen on other blogs I follow. The comment RSS feed actually encourages continuing conversation. What have you got to lose?!
I don’t really allow comments for conversation, and you know that. Yes, I’m aware I’m conducting one right now…
Sidedown in its incarnations has had places for discussion (Commentation Station), and I’ve opened the doors to anyone who felt that they had something to say, offering them a position as a contributor to the site. Both of those things got stale very quickly, because these conversations are few and far between. If at some point I’m pulling down tens of comments per post, I MIGHT consider it.
On the other hand, sometimes I feel like getting rid of comments altogether. Ultimately, if I’m going to be happy with my site, I have to do it my way. The last four months have made that pretty clear to me.
I know it. I’m just saying, as a Sidedown fan, that’s what I’d like. But the site isn’t for fans. It’s for Josh. And I’d be frightened were you to make it anything short of what you want for it.