⇥ The reason why I haven’t been blogging
As you can see, I’ve moved my blog to blogger. It was a very difficult decision to make—and one I’m not sure will work out in the end.
Until now, my blog has been hosted on our servers using WordPress, a software that I have somewhat grown tired of. Recent versions of WP seem to have suffered from significant feature creep, and the continuous updates made keeping up with all the plug-ins and security patches more time-consuming than actually writing blog posts. This seems to be a sort of leitmotif for PHP systems—instead of focusing on building a common infrastructure that allows them to develop small applications that do one thing well, developers seem to be hellbent on writing systems that are capable of doing everything… only not all that well.
But I digress. Regardless of my personal reasons, I stopped blogging primarily because maintaining the blog was taking more time than I actually have to dedicate to blogging, and it didn’t seem like it was worth the effort. After playing for a (very short) time with the idea of using some of our own infrastructure to build a blog system the way I want it—something that we will probably do at some point in the future when more of our community initiatives come into the wild—I’ve decided that it’s best to just outsource the whole thing to someone who has already done a good job of it and, for once, not give in to built-here syndrome.
Until now, my blog has been hosted on our servers using WordPress, a software that I have somewhat grown tired of. Recent versions of WP seem to have suffered from significant feature creep, and the continuous updates made keeping up with all the plug-ins and security patches more time-consuming than actually writing blog posts. This seems to be a sort of leitmotif for PHP systems—instead of focusing on building a common infrastructure that allows them to develop small applications that do one thing well, developers seem to be hellbent on writing systems that are capable of doing everything… only not all that well.
But I digress. Regardless of my personal reasons, I stopped blogging primarily because maintaining the blog was taking more time than I actually have to dedicate to blogging, and it didn’t seem like it was worth the effort. After playing for a (very short) time with the idea of using some of our own infrastructure to build a blog system the way I want it—something that we will probably do at some point in the future when more of our community initiatives come into the wild—I’ve decided that it’s best to just outsource the whole thing to someone who has already done a good job of it and, for once, not give in to built-here syndrome.
Comments
Why not just use WordPress.com, which functions about the same and can import all of your old content?
Because I didn’t want to have to deal with WP
I second the emotion … I would never use WP again unless I’d handed everything but the writing off to someone else. You put it well .. so well I may have to blog you!
Thanks!
I must tip my hat to you, I can see why you made this decision, and I agree, it was a tough one! I however, would never, ever move my blog off our own servers. 3/4ths of the fun in life is in ownership, and the other 3/4ths is in your sense of accomplishment. This may sound paranoid, but if I were you, out of principle, I’d back up every single post I make on THEIR infrastructure.
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