How did you deal with all those migrations? I have a blog from 2010 with around 450 posts and it's been through several migrations and it's getting more and more painful to do them, with many manual interventions needed.
Re:Twenty Years of Blogging
by ubermonkey on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:53AM
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I have a motivated pal who's helped me a couple times, but some of them were turnkey. ISTR that moving from MT to WP was pretty seamless.
Early on, it was a couple hundred posts a year, but I got really politically engaged in the wake of the 2000 election and that helped encourage activity. Busiest year was 2007, with 1,147 posts.
Last year was only 28, but I'm nearly at that for 2023 already. Less politics now, more writing, and more just sharing stuff. I need to hook up the share-to-Mastodon thing since I'm obviously no longer sharing to Twitter.
Mine's been through several platforms -- first Blogger, then to Grey Matter, then Blosxom (whose simplicity I really miss), and for a few years on Movable Type, before landing (obviously) on Wordpress in 2012. I had comments for a while, but that became untenable, and also less rewarding in the era of social media.
Early on, when corporate sites were typically hosted IN HOUSE, like in the same building that business got done in, it was fun to look through the logs and see recognizable domains -- a buddy's law firm in NY, etc. Eventually when colos took over that stopped being as easy to do, and that I look back at doing so fondly probably dates me.