Re: [silk] A question for bloggers
I'm using WP because I also tend to be photo heavy. Instagram is ok but I also like longer form writing and Instagram doesn't suit my style there. Too ephemeral, and I hate the 1:1 aspect ratio requirement. WP is meeting my needs at the moment. -- Charles On Fri., 26 Oct. 2018, 8:50 pm José María Mateos, wrote: > On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 07:37:37 +0530 Deepa Mohan > wrote: > > > Which blog do you use, and why? > > I started my blog in 2003 using Drupal (!). The I moved it to Movable > Type. Then it was WordPress, and it stayed that way until 2014, when > the whole thing crashed due to I don't really know why. By that time, I > had grown a bit tired of the endless trolling in the comments and such, > so when I had a bit of free time, I moved to Pelican, which is simply a > set of Markdown files that are then compiled into HTML, with no comment > system, no PHP and no parts to maintain. And it's really been amazing. > > If anyone wants to comment anything, they can always send me an e-mail. > > Cheers, > > -- > José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org/ > >
Re: [silk] A question for bloggers
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 07:37:37 +0530 Deepa Mohan wrote: > Which blog do you use, and why? I started my blog in 2003 using Drupal (!). The I moved it to Movable Type. Then it was WordPress, and it stayed that way until 2014, when the whole thing crashed due to I don't really know why. By that time, I had grown a bit tired of the endless trolling in the comments and such, so when I had a bit of free time, I moved to Pelican, which is simply a set of Markdown files that are then compiled into HTML, with no comment system, no PHP and no parts to maintain. And it's really been amazing. If anyone wants to comment anything, they can always send me an e-mail. Cheers, -- José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org/
Re: [silk] A question for bloggers
Interesting question Deepa, I started a blog on blogger in 2004 and moved to Wordpress in 2007 but my newest preference is Medium. Starting in 2015, I’ve got some 100 posts up, and I’m happy with that because it comes with an audience. https://medium.com/@netadata Increasingly though, I also use twitter threads. So again, anything that gives me an audience. The flip side of that I’m always conscious that I’m writing for someone else, and I tend to self-censor a bit. On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 7:28 PM Simmi Sareen wrote: > > > > On 25-Oct-2018, at 07:37, Deepa Mohan wrote: > > > > So...what is your blog site preference, and why? > > > > Deepa. > > I started 10 years back on blogger and my blog has stayed there ever > since. However, I find that in the last couple of years, I get far more > reader traction for my micro-blogposts on instagram than I do on the actual > blog. I write on food which is very visual, so instagram seems to make a > bigger connect with the reader base. >
Re: [silk] A question for bloggers
> On 25-Oct-2018, at 07:37, Deepa Mohan wrote: > > So...what is your blog site preference, and why? > > Deepa. I started 10 years back on blogger and my blog has stayed there ever since. However, I find that in the last couple of years, I get far more reader traction for my micro-blogposts on instagram than I do on the actual blog. I write on food which is very visual, so instagram seems to make a bigger connect with the reader base.
[silk] A question for bloggers
Which blog do you use, and why? I was a complete tech ignoramus when I began blogging in 2005 or 2006; and since most of my friends, and my daughter (Anjana, also on this list) were on LiveJournal ( LJ), and it was a fairly vibrant community in Bangalore then, I too joined it. The DDOS attacks, and several tech problems meant that most of my friends moved out of LJ not much longer after that. I too started blogs on Blogger and WordPress (WP). In some undefined way, Blogger did not seem to suit me and though I still use my Blogger id to comment on other posts, I don't use it. However, I started backing up my LJ posts to WP. I see that LJ is moribund, now , and I have, perhaps, 3 readers for my posts (I don't usually see how many people read my posts, on either blogs or on FaceBook.) However, I still find that LJ seems to have several features like cut-text, an easily available setting where the post can be seen only by me, and so on, that even more tech-oriented blogs like GitHub don't have. When I started, I did not use a camera. Over the years, photography featured more and more in my posts. But just lately, I tend to make my photo posts on FB and use the blog more for my thoughts and observations...though I still do use photos too. So...what is your blog site preference, and why? Deepa.
