Hey folks. I have lately been thinking about moving this blog over to a different service, most likely Blogger. I wanted to see if anyone had any comments or suggestions. I know this will mean a few changes. Among other things, those of you who follow me as a friend on livejournal will no longer get my updates. Blogface.org, which now resolves to this blog would naturally be updated to resolve to my new blog. This could mean a change to those of you who subscribe to my livejournal RSS feed. I have thought about that. In order to future-proof yourself, you could change that subscription to instead point to feed.blogface.org, which as of today will always point to the current RSS feed.
The main reason I am contemplating a switch is flexibility. Livejournal just isn't that flexible. Its methods for creating blog entries can also be somewhat painful. I can't post cool gadgets like a Last.fm most-recently played songs widget. There are only a limited number of templates. I cannot install Google Analytics. Other things.
So what do you think. Is this a bad idea? Would you be adversely affected?
I would be adversely affected, possibly, if I can't figure out how to do things with feeds, which I SHOULD know, but don't.
ReplyDeleteRight? This would still be subscribable with some kind of feed thingy if it wasn't on lj?
bleh, i think gadgets and widgets and embedded things on blogs are annoying anyway (vastly preferring a link to the content plus maybe a description of it), so i would prefer to keep seeing your posts on lj, but of course it's your blog, so don't let that stop you.
ReplyDeleteyeah, lj can read feeds, but someone with a paid account has to enter a url and a name into a box to make an "account" for the feed. i say "account" because actually the account has no owner, so they can't be deleted, nor does friending them have any effect on who can see your entries (so for example even if nels never posted to his lj account, you'd have to keep his lj friended and he would have to be logged in to lj in order to see your f-locked posts), which means if you have a lot of friends who switch over to different blog software, your flist (like mine) gets very cluttered.
ReplyDeletei think i sound more begrudging about this than i really am though. feeds are fine, and i totally understand not wanting to stick to lj for a variety of reasons, it's just that it makes it harder to read every damn thing through an lj friends page. maybe i should pony up and start using google reader or something.
thank youuuuu! I get confused. :)
ReplyDeleteI would recommend Tumblr, super easy and custom anything you want. I just switched over to it.
ReplyDeleteM. Murphy
Oooh, I like that I can use my domain name with Tumblr and actually have it show up in the address bar. URL redirect is kind of lame.
ReplyDeleteYeah, there's a lot of truth to that. Actually, I didn't realize the extent to which people were still using livejournal the site. I sort of figured that more people were using RSS readers or even facebook these days. Thanks for the opinion. I don't think I'll be making any decisions right away.
ReplyDeleteWith a paid account you can actually do this with LJ - it's how blog.hyperkind.org is set up at the moment.
ReplyDeleteDo you do many f-locked posts?
ReplyDeleteIf not, I personally am indifferent to which you use.
That's another thing I thought about... I used to, but I don't really any more. Guess my life has gotten less interesting? Or maybe I have become more open.
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