Hitting Reset on the Blog
I’ve run this blog on dasBlog for the past few years, but finally got tired of the comment spam and strange permalink bugs. I’m trading in for a new set of idiosyncracies with WordPress. Expect old posts and comments to be imported to this blog as I have time.
I have decided not to map the old RSS feed URL to the new one. In the more than 6 years that this blog has been running, I have no idea how many of the subscriptions in bloglines or newsgator are for people who actually read the blog. Although it’s an inconvenience to those who do read, I don’t plan to switch again for at least 3 or 4 years, and I get better statistics this way. For anyone reading this post in an RSS newsreader, thanks for re-subscribing!
June 5th, 2006 at 7:11 am
You should post this same message to your old RSS feed, just so people get it.
Cool new look, BTW.
June 8th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
How are we supposed to know your blog has moved if this message isn’t posted to your old feed?
June 12th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
As an author of DasBlog, it’s always nice to get bug reports. We’ve added a number of anti-comment spam features and blacklists a year ago (not sure what version you’re giving up on). Not sure what permalink bugs you’re seeing either. Versions 1.7 and 1.8 are both working nicely on a number of very large, very high traffic blogs. Sorry to see you go.
BTW, if you did an HTTP 301 Redirect at the old DasBlog permalink, you’d get all the existing subscriptions automatically moved over and it wouldn’t cause anyone any trouble. Details on my site.
June 15th, 2006 at 12:06 pm
It’s a good thing I looked, I have you on my RSS feed and just thought maybe you were away or ill.
Are those candies for your border? interesting…
Anyway I’ve added the new feed and it’s working fine. Keep the posts coming.
-g
July 24th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Wow. I was doing some GTD collection and organization and I just (1) read through a pile of unread Better Living … entries collected in NewsGator before September 2005 (and the meltdown of my main computer). So I resubscribed.
And there are some gems in your previous archives that I would love to read in full, with comments. Pullllleeeezzzzz.