1 post tagged “goodbye”

I am moving on.  But before I go, some constructive criticism of the platform.  When Six Apart first started down this road of free blog/social media, you guys were far ahead of the pack.  You also had regular development and were constantly adding new features and tweaking the system to satisfy users. 

Something happened and you guys fell behind other social media outlets.  While the SM phenom continued to evolve, Vox has been pretty static.  The last update other than Themes came over 12 months ago and it was really just fixing some things that should have been fixed in the first place rather than adding new functionality. 

I certainly enjoyed the friends I made here. And I will definitely keep my site open for my own personal reading and reminiscing but it is time to say goodbye Vox.  I am moving on to a self-hosted blog that is specific to scooter hobbyists.  I also use Twitter and Facebook for communicating.  As for the other topics I write about - I will be keeping a private journal for those.

I entered blogging when it didn't even have a name or an engine.  I just had a static webpage that I updated with my thoughts that I called my "rant page".  I found Moveable Type in 1999 and started hosting my now defunct damnittohell.com blog.  Those were the good years of blogging and the community was tight knit.  I really enjoyed my time doing it.

As a blog became nothing more than a vanity plate, I became less interested in what was going on in the community. As I saw friends that I respected deleting comments and blatantly lying to push their own agendas, I became even less interested.  At this point, I think that the only people that keep personal blogs are the ones that wallpaper the back of their cars with bumper stickers.   There is the occasional exception to the rule as there are some good writers out there but they are few and far between I am tired of looking for them.

If you want to continue following me, contact me via PM and I will let you know where my public info will be.

Thanks for the good years and good luck in the future.

Jason