Evolution
Dec. 5th, 2005 | 12:07 pm
I am tired of waiting for Livejournal to keep up with the times. It's nearly 2006 and the LJ feature set is still stuck in 2002, it seems. While there are all kinds of cool and interesting things going on in the current crop of blogging applications, LJ has yet to provide anything as simple as searching your own post history, much less useful tagging, trackbacks, readable permalinks, etc.
I could go on, but I won't.
So rather than continue waiting for features that may never come, I've instead spent the last month or so converting my web site to Wordpress and importing my entire LiveJournal post and comment history. I've gone through and organized, categorized, and tagged the entire history, and all of it is now searchable. As well as this, everything is now under my own control, rather than stored and managed through a third-party service, I've got a huge selection of plugins at my disposal, and I can customize pretty much everything about it.
I will, of course, keep my LJ account around for reading and commenting.
See me at inmostlight.org.
I could go on, but I won't.
So rather than continue waiting for features that may never come, I've instead spent the last month or so converting my web site to Wordpress and importing my entire LiveJournal post and comment history. I've gone through and organized, categorized, and tagged the entire history, and all of it is now searchable. As well as this, everything is now under my own control, rather than stored and managed through a third-party service, I've got a huge selection of plugins at my disposal, and I can customize pretty much everything about it.
I will, of course, keep my LJ account around for reading and commenting.
See me at inmostlight.org.