I recently paid my yearly domain renewal fee, and thus am once again thinking about how to improve my blog, which was nuked not long ago after being compromised due to my complacency regarding wordpress themes. I was unaware of how much wordpress sites are targeted by automated processes as part of some weird credibility scam.
After doing some digging, I confirmed that I haven’t lost any of my writing, I have backups in multiple places, though that seems to be more luck than planning on my part.
I could rebuild the site in wordpress, tighten it up a bit and hope for the best. Another option; I could try one of the various alternatives, including things like Ghost, Kirby, Astro, etc.
After doing some research on the various alternatives, there isn’t one that feels like it’s designed for what I want to do. I want a place to put up my writings, without worrying about marketing, SEO, or any of the profit oriented elements that many of these options tout as their key selling points.
I can see some possible paths to turning my blog into something profitable one day, writing up interesting session recaps of games I’m running, and using that to promote paid gming services, for example.
Or actually writing some decent longer fiction and eventually publishing it, with excerpts on the blog being linked to the where the full version is available for purchase or subscription.
But those goals are secondary to having a place and a space I want to write in, that I feel comfortable with as my platform, that I can easily link people to.
Any thoughts friends?
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