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insomniasexx  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the best way to blog?

If I were you I would start writing on Medium. I've heard great things about it and it allows you to focus on content and let them make it pretty. Once you've done that for I bit, upgrade to wordpress and make it completely yours. We can add Discussion via Hubski through a plugin on Wordpress so you can have all the greatest Hubski comments directly on your blog.

The only downside with starting on Wordpress is the startup time. You want to go through themes, customize stuff, figure out workflow, etc. In my opinion, it isn't worth it to go through that until you get in the rhythm and find joy in blogging first. So many people drop out after their first couple months (I'm looking at you JTHipster!)





JTHipster  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·  

To be fair to myself, and man this is my first Hubski anything in a long time, I stopped doing movie reviews because I was 1. Moving to Ohio (it's terrible here, fuck the Midwest) and 2. Still working on that damnable tabletop RPG. Which I think is turning out great.

I was going to do a review of Ender's Game, then I realized that I really didn't want to do movie reviews anymore. I think part of it is moving away. Most of my friends are still back on the East Coast, and my situation has me in a bit of a funk. There's not much I'll be able to say about a film right now.

forwardslash  ·  4371 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hope things get better for you in the midwest. Saw you a few times around reddit (mostly in the 'reality TV' subreddits, i.e. TiA and SRD). Would love to hear about your experiences designing a tabletop RPG sometime.

insomniasexx  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You know you can hang out on Hubski without writing reviews..right?

Why did you move to Ohio?

veen  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm already working on something beautiful. I'll post the site very soon!

    We can add Discussion via Hubski through a plugin on Wordpress so you can have all the greatest Hubski comments directly on your blog.

All I'm wondering about the plugin is whether it means that every blog I post will be posted to hubski automatically? Seems a bit spammy to me.

    So many people drop out after their first couple months

Yeah that's my current fear indeed. But I'll be damned if I didn't give it a try.

insomniasexx  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Seems a bit spammy to me.

Read this: http://hubski.com/pub?id=100957

The comments only show up if you post it to Hubski as well.

You can see an example of how it might look here.

Here's one with his existing comment section (disqus) + DvH: link

jaggs is Red Ferret and also the one who was so kind to have the plugin made. He only posts some of his posts to Hubski, so other posts just look like this

Other uses of DvH include theadvancedapes _refugee_ lil. I'm sure they can answer any questions you may have.

You can see a feed here.

mk we recently added another blog to the list, correct? We should update hubdvh

veen  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tadaa!

I've been messing around the css of my wordpress theme already, so if it's not too hard I think it would be great to add comments via hubski, if that's ok.

thenewgreen  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·  

veen, congrats on this ambitious and exciting step! I look forward to reading what comes of it. I think DvH would be a great fit. You can PM me with any questions etc.

Best of luck with Veen Space!

veen  ·  4376 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks! My only question would be, how do I install it?

mk  ·  4376 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'll email you today.

veen  ·  4375 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey, can I get the installation sometime or did I miss the mail?

mk  ·  4375 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I sent it to your gmail this morning.

veen  ·  4375 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes I got it for some reason only after I asked you. Thanks!

thenewgreen  ·  4376 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk or forwardslash can probably help.

_refugee_  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love dvh.