Eventually I will run this blog on different software and leave Tumblr. Tumblr is what powers this blog. It has served me well, and still is. But I am feeling increasingly discontent.
The main reason I feel this way is that I want to have more control over the technology that runs my blog/website. Although this is more work (but more fun!), I think it’s the only viable long-term solution. You never know, if Tumblr will still be around in a few years time. Plus I’ll have a better idea where my data is located and that it’s not directly fed into a third party system/social network.
Plus I dislike some things they do:
- They won’t let me directly link to a different website. It’s always going through their redirecting service. It makes the browser status bar pretty much useless, plus I’d like to be the direct referrer to other sites.
- I have the suspicion it promotes Tumblr to my visitors, although I turned that off.
- It often shows a their privacy policy screen one has to accept when visiting pages on Tumblr. I don’t know if that’s the case for custom domains, too, but I think it is. That’s annoying.
- I get regularly distracted by other people’s posts on my Tumblr Dashboard, when I only came here to post something. This is good and bad at the same time.
But these are comparably minor things. I simply want to be more in control and have something that I can comfortably run long-term.