I am very excited about blogging regularly again, but I feel like it's time for me to move over to a platform that's more user-friendly for both authors and their readers. The mobile view of Blogger sites makes the photos so tiny, and it erases all of the customization and identity of the blog. And lately even when I view my blog on my desktop the load times are horrible. I also don't think people really use Blogger as a following platform anymore, so unless you have my site bookmarked or follow a direct link I post on social, I'm not sure how anyone is seeing my posts? And finally (but probably most importantly!) I format my posts using the HTML view on Blogger, and when I was formatting my last few posts it was a nightmare. It kept adding code that I didn't want and the code I added wasn't always reflected when I went back into the composing view. It's been so frustrating trying to post here and I want it to be fun! Even in compose view now when I hit "enter" it adds multiple lines. It's so annoying! I'm sure even after I publish this, once I view it live on my blog there are going to be weird spaces everywhere that I'll have to come back and try to fix ðŸ«
I've thought about the different options and decided to go with Substack, primarily because it was so incredibly easy to import my entire Scathingly Brilliant archive. It's already there, it literally took *minutes.* I follow several people on Substack and I love that I get their posts directly in my email inbox, so that was also a huge plus!
I'm in the process of manually adding tags to all of my posts so they can be sorted by outfits, room tours, DIY posts, recipes, etc. and I'm already done with 2013 forward. (Of course 2011-2012 were my most prolific blogging years so I have a lot of work ahead of me lol!) I added links to those categories in the navigation bar on my homepage.
Everything I've ever posted so far is free, and as of right now I don't have any plans to put content behind a paywall (I also have a patreon and I feel like that's where paywalled content will continue to live.) I do, however, have comments turned off for free members, so a paid subscription is required to comment. I turned comments off on this blog back in 2014 after I was exhausted by how many trolls I kept getting, and this seemed like a happy medium between turning them off entirely or letting everything through. Of course if anyone wants to support the substack it would be greatly appreciated, but it isn't necessary to access any of the posts :)
To join me over on Substack, click here! I hope to see you there!! 💕
xo Kate
