WordPress blogs are such a strange animal. I’m at my 20th anniversary of being a hobbyist blogger. I started out in May of 2006 on MSN’s “Spaces Live” I believe it was called. I’m starting to look into their “premium packages”. They have $4 & $8 dollar packages. The rest are much more expensive packages for businesses and organizations.
I was poking around today on their “Reader” looking at other hobbyists. One guy was doing the same shtick he was doing 10 years ago, doing posts about comic books and music videos. No thought or effort into them, just pictures and videos. 20 Likes. I never got 20 Likes in my LIFE!
Absolute trivial stuff, and he’s more popular than I’d ever be! Its the same whether it is Facebook, Twitter, Gab, or WordPress. On top of his 20 Likes, he had like 15 comments, I don’t get 15 comments in a year! And all he did was post a video from some heavy metal rock group from 40 years ago. No info or keen insight into the group, just a YouTube video. Absolutely no effort, and all that engagement!
When I was on Spaces Live blogging I grew like a blog should. Then in 2010 at 50,000 hits (literally), everything died. I will never know if it was because one of the blogs had been associated with the John Birch Society, or if they were moving into their new business model that said free sites were going to be limited. Effectively forcing you into one package or another.
Plus Spaces Live let you bring in a “widget” so you could have the weather forecast at the top of your page, the stock market indexes, pretty cool stuff. Plus WordPress always screws up your web address so that you end up with the dumbest address possible. They do it on purpose.
Look at this one: https://religionanddotpoliticsdotblog.wordpress.com/ – that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. “religion and dot politics dot blog” – what the hell is that?? What I’ll probably do is buy the $4 dollar package and see if that makes any difference before I buy the $8 dollar package for one of the other blogs.
Politics and Religion 