After experimenting with running a Blogger blog side by side with this WordPress blog for a while, it became clear to me that after eight years it was time to quit using WordPress and go back to Blogger.

What WordPress is not so good for is short posts with just one or two images or one line of text. Used like that it rapidly becomes cluttered, and because you need to click on each post to actually view it, it just doesn’t work well for quickly looking at dozens of short posts (AKA. “shitposts” or “tweets”)

  That is where Blogger comes into it’s own, it’s ideal for doing short posts, where the homepage displays each post in full, and you can scroll down a long stream of short posts that all seem to merge into one.

 Two main drawbacks of Blogger are that all these short posts go pretty much unseen in search engines so it’s unlikely many people will ever see them, and because Blogger is owned by Google there is always the risk that they will one day blacklist my blog or even delete it altogether. They do seem to be manipulating the traffic, as the hits are very inconsistent. But they are black listing my WordPress blog as well, so that doesn’t really mean much any more.

So my plan is to only keep posting on WordPress until the end of 2023, and then make this FROT blog an archive and move fully over to my new Blogger blog: www.sift.co.nz

I don’t want to call my posts “shitposts” (because everything I post is awesome!), or “tweets” because Elon Musk is a dickhead and Twatter sucks balls, so I decided to tag my short posts “SIFTINGS”. My plan is to backup all my short posts on Blogger, once a month, into a single document that I’ll save offline in case Google ever decide to delete my Blogger account.

And that is the plan behind my new “siftings” tag.

 A prototype SIFTINGS compilation post is here: https://www.frot.co.nz/design/funny/siftings-from-june-2023/