Counting down to 7 years of blogging
Monday, July 27th, 2009And to celebrate I think I should have the new system in place so I can finally ditch Wordpress. Once that’s done I am free to start changing the underlying schema, so that things can be a little more free-form around here.
Gone will be the rigid category system, to be replaced by simple tags. Gone will be the rigid separation between comments and posts… perhaps. Not quite sure about that one yet, but basically I like the idea of reducing the database to just a few tables, and the idea that some posts might organically lead to sub-threads which would be related and easily navigable. Also there will probably be a simpler layout with all the sidebar paraphernalia tucked out of the way a bit more.
The main feed now features my Gravatar icon too, to make it easier to spot my posts in an ever growing list of aggregated feeds.
What I’m basically envisaging for intepid is that it will become like a hybrid blog/forum/wiki kind of deal… A personal journal and knowledge base.
BTW This post was written quite comfortably on my iPod touch using a very basic edit form, and as much as possible I want to keep things simple like this, with no dashboards or special admin pages except where absolutely necessary.

July 27th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Splendid! Looking forward to the official switchover.
July 27th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Thanks, me too :)
Note that on the regular WP pages comments posted from new ones don’t get counted in the total… it’s exactly this sort of brittle redundant nonsense that I am looking forward to dispensing with.
July 28th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
I actually like the wordpress layout, where you have to click into the post to see the comments. Otherwise it gets a bit crowded. And I like that the comments are on the side. Can you make it so that your new site automatically finds your Gravatar through your email address? Cause right now it doesn’t.
July 28th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
It doesn’t show when you first post, but when the page is reloaded it should should show up