After searching off and on, I had seen imagebam noted in various places and reviews as
a possible substitute. I did a dry run post and then checked how it worked. I did NOT get
any pop ups or links to 'pron sites' using Firefox with ublock,ghostery, and adblock.
It was a bit cumbersome, I agree.
To the commenter that noted there appear to be some under age in the post. Please do elucidate
Irish on which one, one's, you are concerned about. If you mean under 30, then yes, it may be so.
Based on some other comments, it may be time to try my hand at Wordpress. It seems they are
a bit more lenient on their TOS.
Has anyone got any input on wordpress one way or another?
This will take gettting used to after 14 plus years here.
Thanks for all the input, I'll be around as usual.
Irish
I have used WP for 15 years and have almost zero problems with them.
ReplyDeleteHighly recommend.
Blooger/G@@gle sucks shit.......
no matter where you go or what means you use, your faithful readers will follow
ReplyDeleteGood luck!
What boron said. 👍
DeleteTo me it looked like a Porn site. Got out of it, and did a computer scan.
ReplyDeleteWordPress will change settings and/or disable a function then bring it back some time later. They didn't like my avatar and deleted it. It was a Minuteman with a M-16. I had a private Wordpress page that had my reloading data on it that got deleted.
ReplyDeletehttps://maddmedic.wordpress.com/ uses it, maybe stop by and ask
ReplyDeleteIIRC, a couple years back Kenny has some frustration with WP.
ReplyDeleteRegardless which CMS you decide on I would recommend you move away from Google and sign up with a provider, this way you for the most part don't have to worry about anyone's TOS.
ReplyDeleteYes, I know there is a cost involved but I would wager a fundraiser now and again would offset those costs. I suppose I should clear this with him first, but as an example when Phil had his back to the wall it didn't take long for the community at large to help him out. Speaking only for myself, and while I don't have a lot, I would have no problem tossing some your way to help out.
Just a thought.
wes
wtdb
I agree. I use godaddy for one website and ipage for another. I can play around with images as background (or not) and use whatever font in whatever color I want, even kanji comes across perfectly.
DeleteI do check my sites on various browsers every so often: chrome, brave, yandex, phoebe, and firefox; I've found very few probs.
Gary
Let me know how it works out, I am thinking about dumping blogger as well.
ReplyDeleteI hate WordPress. From the point of view of a visitor, it provides a highly inconsistent interface, depending upon which template the blog owner chooses. For example, I can comment at Joe Huffman's blog, and Joel's place (The Ultimate Answer to Kings) even with an active browser plugin that's disabling JavaScript. I can comment at Mad Medic only if I happen to logged in at wordpress.com at the same time. Over at Mad Medic, I can fill out the form, including username and e-mail, hit the button, and it just sits there, unless I'm logged in, in which case, it gives me popup to subscribe, which has no cancel option. Wordpress is just a mess. One blog - The Freeholder - won't display anything at all without using JavaScript.
ReplyDeleteFrom the point of view of a site owner, I have a small site I maintain which I host at wordpress.com, and that's the only reason I have a login there. The whole deal with choosing a theme and then crafting your site's look/feel is a PITA, IMHO. They foist new features on you, and then, as mentioned above, sometimes they bring them back. The "block editor" is a good example of that. Compared to the classic editor, it's a POS. Last I heard, Mad Medic was unable to get back to the classic editor.
Looking at the HTML source, I think these are the themes in question:
TUAK - twentyten
Joe Huffman - twentyeleven
Mad Medic - damned if I can tell
The Freeholder - "Dazzling Blog" I think
The above:
https://www.thefreeholder.net/
https://maddmedic.wordpress.com/
http://joelsgulch.com/ (TUAK)
http://blog.joehuffman.org/
Oh, Phil is using the twentyeleven theme as well, and it's all good from my end, as a visitor.
Back in the early 2000's, I used Wordpress, and it was great. But they're hell-bent on "improving" it until it's broken. They can't just leave alone the things that a basic user would want for a blog.
Just my 2C, and unfortunately, I don't what else to recommend.
Phil and me had problems with WP during our troubling times with hackers and DOSs and since we have switched to a hosting company it hasn't been a problem using WP. Our sister site, the Vulgar Curmudgeon is on an older Blogger site and we can't change the templates and have trouble with the blog roles and deleting old, non-preforming blogs. Spam is a minimum, mostly Russian/Chinese/Arab bots as far as we can tell. Only thing we don't do is a lot of frontal, wide open crotch shots and that may be why we don't have problems.
ReplyDeleteanodtothegods.com uses WordPress and regularly posts items more adult than you've ever done with seeming no problem.
ReplyDeleteThat is one of the reasons why I stopped. I was getting citations and pics were taken down. It was a blog about chickens for God's sake....
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