I started writing this post before I even fully committed to the idea in my head, but we’re going to do it.
Long story short: I’ve been fiddling with BearBlog for personal writing, and I like its simplicity so much that I think I’m going to migrate Deep Space Spines over to it. The writing has always been the main attraction, and BearBlog makes it easy to foreground that. I’m a little sad that I spent some of my summer revamping the archive into a lean mean image-based machine only to decide a month later to move to something more stripped-down, but I’m not exactly devastated.
It’s going to take a long time to do it. Every review has to be moved over manually, and with school in full swing, spare time is once again at a premium. But I think it’s a lot more worthwhile to pay $6 a month (or even the yearly rate) than the absolute gobs I’m currently paying to host it on a bespoke WordPress site. Also, I’ve been having some issues with site security over here that wouldn’t be a problem over there, and it’s made it hard to attract new readers.
New posts will still go up over here until I have it done. But if you want to see it as it gets built, here’s a link. Heck, you might even enjoy revisiting some of those old reviews. No time like the present for an archive binge.
Let’s get the hell out of here.
