I’m not very happy with WordPress.com for a number of reasons.
Their editor is very slow. In a long post, I can get to the point where I have to stop typing and wait for it to catch up with me.
Their site is currently broken in SeaMonkey again, and it’s not clear it can be fixed, and this was right after I blogged that Palefill provided a shim that lets you log in. Currently, you can log in but the editor is broken. Why? They change things around pointlessly and vomit Chromeisms on me. Only Web sites that have piss poor code fail in SeaMonkey.
It’s usually something corporate and terrible.
So going forward my new posts will be mirrored in Gemini so that people who want to read them don’t have to wade through all this garbage, JavaScript, and ads (if you’re not blocking those).
I do hate the Web so very much. For every desirable feature added in the last 10 years, there’s been at least 50 nasty ones. Every modern browser is proprietary and full of junk and DRM, WordPress.com isn’t doing anything now that it wasn’t 10 years ago, and all of a sudden you need GULAG CRASH or one of their clones, like Firefox, to deal with it. Boo!
Gemlog Blue has free sign-up and I can just type the post in and click enter, from SeaMonkey, even without giving them permission to run any JavaScript. Then my posts appear in a Gemini Pod. This is actually more pleasant than it was writing simple HTML to maintain my site when I was a teenager. I can put all kinds of stuff in there without worrying if the browser will lag or crash or if I will be graciously allowed to log in without updating to the latest browser with the support for all the new Chromeisms.
10 years ago I had a friend in Georgia who referred to Google Chrome as “the botnet”.
I said, “You know, that’s not far off.”. It’s essentially a virtual machine, with DRM, and a Remote Access Trojan.
It all started with some rather innocent-looking Web comics about how they just wanted to make the Web faster. It’s not faster, or smaller, they just throw the mess all over your PC cloning the entire operating system you already have.
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