I need to get off wordpress in the next few years
maybe go all in on pure email and point the domain at zips of markdown files on some repo somewhere
suddenly getting a strong premonition of the web dying soon, not just blogging
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Not dying so much as going underground entirely. Defined as invisible to non-social search.
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didn't the web die in 2005? (or wherever the spawn point of web 2.0 was)
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No that’s just when we threw the old Usenet-era farts off because they were getting too preachy 😆
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Give static websites a try. There are several frameworks available: Hugo (Go), Jekyll (Ruby), Pelican (Python), plus some in Rust. No more worrying about plugins and widgets.
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What bugs you the most about WordPress is the maintenance burden, right? I'm curious if you considered switching to a hosted version and why/why not.
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I use hosted
Doesn’t solve plugins and themes being suddenly unsupported forcing a scramble to find alts that are
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I’m not holding my breath there, it’s a small piece of the puzzle that may or may not work out
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I am considering what to do with my occasional thoughts that I used to put on a blogspot page. So, not WordPress then??



