Moving The Blog From Pika (Back) To Weblog.LOL
Things here likely will remain silent for a bit, as I’ve an absolute ton of work to do to put the blog back on Weblog.LOL after leaving it for WordPress sometime last year, and then quitting blogging altogether earlier this year.
As I’ve said before, there’s nothing problematic about Pika except in the sense that I became overzealous about its dead-simple approach, which appealed to my need not to tinker overly much else risk some pretty intense nervous system dysregulation. That’s not hyperbole: tinkering too much is bad for me. It’s one of the things I’ve learned about myself. In the end, though, I’ve a need for features and functions that don’t exist on Pika.
At any rate, what this will mean for you mostly is that if you read this blog through an RSS reader, that feed address will be changing yet again.
Over at Weblog.LOL, once I’m properly set up, the blog will once again have search functionality and my posts page will be doing the things I want it to do, and I’ll be able consistently to maintain a local Markdown archive of all my posts.
It’s important to me to reiterate that I am not “fleeing” Pika or some other indication that I’ve somehow discovered a problem with the service. They’re toiling away at the system, they’re responsive to emails, and anyone looking at a simple blogging setup will find people at Good Enough to be more invested in the idea and its execution than might have been found at place like Bloggi and Proseful, for example.
Actually, this also will mean one other things for you: my post URLs are set to change yet again, but this time I’ll be settling into the /posts/YYYY-MM-DD-slug format that some but not all posts use here on Pika, and intend to use that format in perpetuity. I’ve already gotten that working on Weblog.LOL thanks to a bit of finagling on their part behind the scenes.
If you haven’t seen an announcement of the switchover having been completed, then you’re still reading this on Pika. I’m not going to bother with the move until I’ve prepared all of my archive as it existed back in Match in advance, and have no problem continuing to pay Good Enough the $6/month in the meanwhile.