My ongoing experiment with Squarespace6 continues. My hope was to migrate all of the content I have created on various sites like Tumblr, Wordpress and Posterous into one domain that I control and own.
Read MoreUpdate: October 2024.
A note for posterity. Storify, like so many social media experiments back in the 2010s, died an abrupt death, taking about a dozen posts on this blog with it. The posts consisted of embedded tweets from staffers at The Times, using the @nytimes newsroom staff list on Twitter. from the heyday of Twitter, before Elon Musk came at the platform with a wrecking ball and even changed the name. I’m leaving this stub for posterity but deleting the blank posts that were part of this blogging experiment.
The transfer of the blog from Wordpress proved pretty easy. I had a brief moment of panic until I figured out how to do a proper 301 redirect to add the word "posts" to all the links out there pointing to my old site.
Read MoreI built this site on Squarespace 6, which offered more design flexibility than my old Wordpress.com site. Wordpress also put advertising on my site, which I didn't like. I have posted most of the best content from the old site under this "Posts" tab. While I don't plan to resume blogging about coffee with any frequency, I have highlighted that category in the menu at the top of the page, since there were a lot of posts on it over a few years.
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