Influenced by https://kevquirk.com/blog/blog-questions-challenge based on an original idea from https://brandons-journal.com/bear-blog-questions-challenge/.
This is a meta post you will find on various blogs nowadays, anyway I find the answers so interesting when shared by other people, hence are mine.
The questions are:
- Why did you start blogging in the first place?
- What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it?
- Have you blogged on other platforms before?
- How do you write your posts? For example, in a local editing tool, or in a panel/dashboard that's part of your blog?
- When do you feel most inspired to write?
- Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft?
- What's your favourite post on your blog?
- Any future plans for your blog? Maybe a redesign, a move to another platform, or adding a new feature?1.
1. Why did you start blogging in the first place?
I wanted to share cool links to free games and free apps, in french, and mostly because I couldn't find such specialized blogs in the French speaking community.
2. What platform are you using to manage your blog and why did you choose it?
My first blog was hosted at Jeuxvideo.com, it was about free and open source video games and apps. Then I pivoted to blogotext hosted on free.fr to write about some productivity tools.
Following the hype I tried static site generators such as Hugo and Zola without much success as it was painful to feel like debugging whenever I wanted to maintain the tooling or customize my blog.
I've migrated the content of my blogotext to a WordPress hosted on OVH and that got me back into writing, for a time at least.
Nowadays I'm using WordPress managed on my Cloudron instance and hosted at Contabo on my own VPS. I like the stability of WordPress and the ease to just be able to write anywhere using any device, any browser. Without caring about the maintenance of any tooling, upgrades etc.
3. Do you publish immediately after writing, or do you let it simmer a bit as a draft?
I tend to write best when I don't overthink, yet I suffer ADHD and I have 51 blog posts in draft state, I can't help.
4. Have you blogged on other platforms before?
I've only posted on a hosted platform in the past which was jeuxvideo.com. I do not believe anymore in the longevity of platforms after exiting a few social networks and few forums and communities. I've also observed the death of platforms I had invested time into.
5. How do you write your posts? For example, in a local editing tool, or in a panel/dashboard that's part of your blog?
Right in the WordPress editor, in my browser (btw, it's Brave).
6. When do you feel most inspired to write?
When I need to escape my thoughts and surrounding. When I'm expressing a problem or rant or anxiety. Or when I have to think clearly about a topic or elaborate my answer to an existing thread.
7. What's your favourite post on your blog?
Not posts but likely the 😵💫 Guilty page which is about things I like too much.
8. Any future plans for your blog? Maybe a redesign, a move to another platform, or adding a new feature?
I'd like to keep the tooling minimal with HTML or plaintext. I do not like Markdown much, likely I'm a nostalgic.