Untold Realms

Photo by Bernard Hermant (@bernardhermant) on Unsplash.

Folks, I have (once again) moved Untold Realms to a new home. The site now using the Write.as platform. I did this for a few reasons, but mostly for cost.

When I moved the website off my self-hosted WordPress platform on Bluehost, I did it to save money. I moved to Ghost, and it saved me a ton—the hosting was a little more, since it wasn’t spread among 4 websites anymore, but I saved a bunch on add-on services. These included email newsletters, security, SPAM, etc. Ghost was a slick all-in-one service, and it met my needs.

But… they raised their price—almost doubled it—with no notice. That made me mad. So I started looking for alternatives. I knew by now that I didn’t need the full spread of blogging features and services. That’s when I found Write.as.

Write.as has the feature set that I need—but no more. It truly is geared towards writing, and not all of the shit that everyone tells you need to be a blogging entrepreneur. Just writing. It really is pretty liberating to take all of the distratctions out of the equation.

When you add in the integration to the Fediverse, it really changed my mindset and how I write. The decentralized, more relaxed nature of the Fediverse made me see that it was OK to not worry about SEO or writing for a damn algorithm—just myself and my readers. And that was cool, too.

So I have finished making the move, and am getting back to writing—and gaming! So I hope to be more regular with my wrticles and what I get put out here. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I do writing it!

PS. I ended up saving $156/year by moving from Ghost to Write.as. It’s not as slick, but it works. And $156 a year is not chump change, especially these days.

Marc #write.as #ghost #news