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Update about this blog
Feb. 15th, 2024 05:13 amEvery few years I end up wanting to change up how I blog and get rid of most of the stuff I have posted so far. It might have many reasons of course but usually it's the simple feeling of disconnect and clutter. Once again, it's such a moment for me.
But this time round, I wanted to try something different: because this is a Dreamwidth (DW) blog, I thought I could easily just set all my posts as private, and then make some posts I still like public, and just keep using it as is.
Turns out, this isn't as straightforward with DW as I imagined. Initially I couldn't find a tool to mass-private all my posts; so, I explored some other options like having a WordPress blog or setting up a static blog with Jekyll. I learned that, in more than a decade since I last used it, WP had become a borderline unusable weird mess; and that I don't really find it in me to set up a static blog and relearn Jekyll just now (I like Jekyll, and I had had custom scripts for a static blog at times too; trouble is, either way bothering with it all isn't compelling to me anymore, or at least, for now).
So I tried to look into it a bit more, and finally figured that DW did have a tool to mass-modify privacy levels of one's posts. Trouble: it's only available to paid accounts. Just like with changing your username, once again, a very sensitive, fundamental, and important DW feature is behind a paywall...
Anyways, I did purchase a month's pass for $3 and used the tool (see this FAQ entry for more information, if you're interested). I am very unamused because of this, I believe that if something as vital as this will be behind a paywall, then better the whole thing be paid for and never offered for free.
But whatever, fact of the matter is, TL;DR: all posts on this blog are private now (or are in the process of becoming so); this means that they are only visible to people who are on my access list on DW, somewhat like followers-only social media posts; in the following days I will un-private some of these posts that I don't mind remaining public. Newer posts will mostly be public. I might decide to continue blogging on another account or somewhere else than DW, in which case, I will post an update about it here.
If there's a particular post from before now (i.e., at the time of posting this entry) that you'd wish become public again, and we know each other somehow, you can contact me. See my website, if you don't have a DW account, you can email me about it. I won't guarantee to make it public, but in that case, if it's a text I don't mind others having, and if you somehow need it, I might send you the text. Again, no promises.
UPDATE (15 Feb 2024): I did go thru the posts yesterday and un-privated some of them.
But this time round, I wanted to try something different: because this is a Dreamwidth (DW) blog, I thought I could easily just set all my posts as private, and then make some posts I still like public, and just keep using it as is.
Turns out, this isn't as straightforward with DW as I imagined. Initially I couldn't find a tool to mass-private all my posts; so, I explored some other options like having a WordPress blog or setting up a static blog with Jekyll. I learned that, in more than a decade since I last used it, WP had become a borderline unusable weird mess; and that I don't really find it in me to set up a static blog and relearn Jekyll just now (I like Jekyll, and I had had custom scripts for a static blog at times too; trouble is, either way bothering with it all isn't compelling to me anymore, or at least, for now).
So I tried to look into it a bit more, and finally figured that DW did have a tool to mass-modify privacy levels of one's posts. Trouble: it's only available to paid accounts. Just like with changing your username, once again, a very sensitive, fundamental, and important DW feature is behind a paywall...
Anyways, I did purchase a month's pass for $3 and used the tool (see this FAQ entry for more information, if you're interested). I am very unamused because of this, I believe that if something as vital as this will be behind a paywall, then better the whole thing be paid for and never offered for free.
But whatever, fact of the matter is, TL;DR: all posts on this blog are private now (or are in the process of becoming so); this means that they are only visible to people who are on my access list on DW, somewhat like followers-only social media posts; in the following days I will un-private some of these posts that I don't mind remaining public. Newer posts will mostly be public. I might decide to continue blogging on another account or somewhere else than DW, in which case, I will post an update about it here.
If there's a particular post from before now (i.e., at the time of posting this entry) that you'd wish become public again, and we know each other somehow, you can contact me. See my website, if you don't have a DW account, you can email me about it. I won't guarantee to make it public, but in that case, if it's a text I don't mind others having, and if you somehow need it, I might send you the text. Again, no promises.
UPDATE (15 Feb 2024): I did go thru the posts yesterday and un-privated some of them.
