FWIW, I like long, wonk-ish, posts and I'm glad your UB in 2017 post wasn't broken up into multiple parts.
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Replying to @danluu @johnregehr and
I like long as well; the main reason I cap my posts around 3.5-4k words is that WordPress completely goes to shit around that length.
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This might be the wrong thread, but why wordpress? Is it just the switching cost of moving to a static site generator?
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Wrote a static site generator, wrote a conversion tool for all the blog content, set it up at http://blog.rygorous.org/test , realized again
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*just* how much I loathed having to ride herd on security updates etc. for a host, stayed on http://wordpress.com .
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I did almost all the work including copy-editing my entire blog history up to that point before I noped out on "fuck maintaining servers".
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The two other issues were 1. analytics 2. comments; I would like some basic form of either, but running a comment system is a dystopian
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hellscape, and my whole thing was that if I was gonna run this myself, I really didn't want to inflict intrusive tracking etc. on visitors.
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Yeah, I don't have comments because I don't want to run my own system and disqus is terrible. http://www.jefftk.com/index has a nice system, tho
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I think it basically reflects comments from g+ or FB into a static site generator, so you can still just put static pages wherever.
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