Happy Spring Equinox!
I finally decided that part of the reason I don’t blog much, after losing my old blog and moving back here, is that the mobile app for Blogger is a pain in my ass. It doesn’t understand HTML, so you cannot use it to post images that are hosted elsewhere (like Flickr or Instagram). Instead, if you want to post images, you have to upload them directly to Blogger. For a lot of reasons, I don’t like doing that, and it’s really made me disinclined to blog.
But there is a solution! I moved back to WordPress. Only this time, I am not self-hosting, because that was a whole other pain in my ass. I think this will hit the sweet spot between getting the flexibility I want and not having to deal with the hacking crap that comes with self hosting, which I do NOT want.
The only thing that gives me sadcakes is that I didn’t jump on the .com domain name I wanted fast enough. It was available, but it’s been snatched up. I got the .net domain name, though: http://redpaperboat.net.
I’m still arranging the furniture there, but it’s functional.
red paper boat 
Are you going to keep both sites? I tried to leave a comment on the other one but it tries to force me to log into WordPress. Jackie
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Well hell. The WP blog is set so that you are just supposed to have to supply a name and email address, but you shouldn't have to sign in. If it's asking you to, that's weird. I don't want people to have to log in, just to leave comments. That seems unnecessarily hostile to me, especially when there are better ways to control spam.
One of the other reasons I wanted to move away from Blogger is that I'm not able to reply to comments from the app. It says I'm logged in (and I am, because I can post), but when I try to reply to comments, the comment disappears into a black hole. Google doesn't seem invested in fixing anything to do with Blogger (the search function has been broken for years; you'd think Google of all companies would be invested in having functional searching on their blogging platform!).
Anyway, I don't know what I'll do with this blog. I'll keep it, for sure, but since I seem to be doing most of my online stuff from my phone these days, not being able to do that smoothly with Blogger is a problem. It means that for every hundred times I think I should maybe blog about something, I only do so maybe five times. I'll get more use out of WordPress, I think.
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