WordPress.com ain’t perfect, and it is another thing owned by a for-profit company, but giving tools and space for long-form posting is its whole schtick. It’s not a little experiment on the side like this place is for Google, and it’s not a startup with a questionable future and unproven business model. It’s easy to export the posts with their built-in tools, so you really get to feel like you own your content. WordPress.com hosted sites are a hell of a lot easier to set up and maintain than hosting your own site (says the guy who maintained multiple hacked WordPress blogs over the years). And I have to admit that the social features they’ve added are kind of neat (even if I am getting a little inundated with Brad Murray’s and Aaron Griffin’s posts through social media, AND my RSS reader, AND WordPress’s reader … I’ve gotta sort that out).

Add all that up, and I’ve been way more prolific since starting the blog than I was before. I’m finally finishing up projects I’ve been working on for months or even years just because I know they’ll be easier to find now that they have their own coherent URLs, in my own easily searchable space. It’s strangely liberating. I imagine any blog would give that feeling, but I’m happy enough so far with the platform I’ve chosen.

I’m over at https://pretendo.games. Looking forward to seeing where others end up.