NEWS

Site usability / news.

Check periodically for updates, and I'll post in reverse order, newest at the top.

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3.21.25

So I think (as of now) the dropdown arrows still work, but not always, and sometimes they work ONLY IF YOU'RE ON A POST PAGE, not from the "home" URL. So if it's not working right, try it: go to any post, and then (maybe) you can peruse the posts by date and name. But I am leery of changing the template and so it's still not a phone experience. pfft.

This stuff will only get buggier and worse over time.

I expect I'll do some experimenting by making bogus blogs to try all the templates & variants, and try other hosts (ala Reply All's Roman Mars Mazda Virus episode, except probably not very funny). Maybe I'll post links to them. Maybe I'll start anew on another platform and retire this elsewhere.

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3.20.25

I'm playing with the blogger templates again and it's been clear for a long time they don't really support this site anymore .. for many many years that has been the case. I'm very good with figuring out workarounds because I've been working with sites that have pre-made templates for a long time now, but I've really hit a wall lately with the functionality of the site. Either I use one of the newer templates - site looks nice but I can't set it up to do what I want, or I use one of the older templates that I can organize more to my liking but has no mobile support and therefore is really hard to read on a phone. And more importantly, I seem to have been previously grandfathered into a certain dropdown archived post list functionality that no longer exists, now I've tried a newer template and then gone back to an old one. It's the one thing that's non-negotiable for me, and it's borked. It's not working the same way it used to. THAT'S THE DEAL BREAKER. (see "borked blog archive" on the left there and how the dropdown arrows don't work anymore)

Listen. I'm not a fucking substack writer. Few of these posts are topical, and the ones that are, I don't care about. I'm not really interested in an audience that's scrolling in the supermarket line and just wants stupid distraction for five minutes and somehow has landed here - I do not want a tiktok audience. I AM NOT A "CONTENT CREATOR." These posts aren't disposable. That's the internet I HATE - the internet of constant distraction (which everything is moving more and more toward). I like the internet of archived information. If I can't have the posts showing up in order, and a functional drop down menu of previous posts by date, where you can really easily browse them by date and title, the blog is done. This is a repository of writing, and mostly it's for me.

At present I have no intention of taking it down, but either I'll have to build it from scratch (have patience, grasshopper; I don't know how to do this yet) or take it to a new host. A ton of work either way. Presently I don't know of an available site that accommodates my desires here but there's no point in moving elsewhere and just leaving this up as an archive if it can't be navigated the way I want. pretty basic stuff.. and I'm scared of losing the posts, quite honestly.

So now what? stay tuned, I guess, and I'll post when I figure it out. 

Thanks for reading, whoever you are.