new things
Scribblanity is on Scribbles, a simpler blogging platform - certainly
simpler than I was used to with the mind-boggling and AI
bandwagon-feeding complexity maelstrom that WordPress has become - that
is still in beta as I write.
Consequently, it seems like
there are always new buttons to press and options to tick see what they
do every time I come to edit a post, as the developer, Vincent Ritter,
adds and completes the functionality that he's aiming for by launch. I
suspect this will carry on for a while after it has fully launched
too.
I must admit, I don't know what the recently added
services of shoutouts.lol and status.lol even are, or
what they are for, so I probably won't be adding those quite yet. I did
however take advantage of creating a Tinylytics statistics account to see
if any of my rambling was being read by anyone else, using its basic -
free level - page view count functionality.
What I've seen on
there has surprised me, in that there are apparently readers.
Hello.
Not only that, but despite me only
announcing when I've made a post on my fediverse account - not being
social enough to be on any other 'bigger' platforms as well -
I'm seeing about four times the readership per blog post than I ever saw
on the WordPress blog statistics. This is from a small, only nearly 300
follower account (which is about 295 more than I ever thought my
mindless bumbling ever warranted).
This could be worrying.
Now when I post, I could have to be conscious of there actually
being real people in a real audience on the other side of the screen,
with feelings and things, which is not something I've ever considered
before. They might have opinions about something I've said. Or want to
argue over some "facts" or "details".
I might have to do
some form of quality control.
Or, on the other hand, I could
just carry on just like I've always done before and don't give a... Oh,
look, he's added a divider option in the editor too!
Yep. That works fine.
Where were we? Yes. If you do want to say anything about a post, like you enjoyed one (I'll say thank you) or you didn't (I'll ignore it) then I will be doing a proper contact page where you can send me any comments on email, being that the functionality for that has been added recently too.
Oh, go on, I'll chuck one on the end here as an example, just because I can now.
Alternatively, if you are on any of the Fediverse platforms, Mastodon etc., I normally post on my fedia social account here, and use the #scribblanity hashtag to identify a blog entry - which you either search for post threads on, or can also of course use as a keyword to filter out if it all gets too much.
Hopefully, with now being well on the road to recovery after a long time in a creative stasis with bad health, I can start to reduce the readership numbers to the sort of single figures I'm used to again, and perhaps even get some newcomers to flounce off loudly and angrily.