I quit in 2023 wordpress now I am coming back, due to being tired of Platforms.
I’ve been rethinking my media platforms lately. Instead of spreading myself thin, I want to focus on just one or two. I stopped blogging here and on Medium around May 2024 when I shifted my energy toward game development. That’s still ongoing, but I’ve realized I miss having a space to write and share what I am doing.
I decided to try Newsletters and Youtube, thinking about building an audience. So I can update them about my projects. I choose substack for this, due to the free email sending feature for new articles or posts. I had some traction gaining users organically but lately it feels like the platform might become like facebook. Youtube feels saturated so i feel its a lost cause to try and make that platform work.
Social Media Escape
So last month after reading a bit on the Blog Social Media Escape club, I come to realise the blog has been many things over the years-part portfolio, part art diary, part experiment.
In 2025, I feel it’s time to embrace change again. After all, change is the only constant. Blogs need to change from a link 🔗 catergory based to a feed based presentation.
Social Platform substack bursting, TikTok shorts and reach down
On social platforms, Substack has been fun—I grew a small newsletter to about 70 subscribers—but I don’t feel it’s the right long-term home. TikTok’s reach is dropping these days and I feel the platform is saturated same as YouTube and podcasts.
Ghost or Beehiiv are great for newsletters, but they aren’t really built for having a proper website or archive. There is a learning curve to them but it’s the better substack overall.
Medium well medium is going through its own changes and growth I do hope API access will be open up someday but the good news I can still import my articles in automatically with a click.
Coming back to WordPress and making an Archive for Me
So I looked at my old wordpress blog on WordPress.com Still humming away
as for Medium i can’t say much changed here but I do like that I can import my blog posts.
As a solo dev, I think having my own blog and online archive still makes the most sense. It’s something I control, a space that won’t disappear if a platform shuts down or changes direction.
I feel that these platforms are not for your best interest long term. Just look at the old oatmeal comic on Facebook.
Owning a Blog and Website
I’m not aiming to build the next Verge or TechCrunch for gaming. But I can build something smaller, more personal, and hopefully more meaningful. I definitely want to leave something behind when I am gone so you future reader and user can learn from here.
So here’s to a fresh start—rebuilding this blog into a place where I can share my journey, my projects, and the little wins along the way.
Topics in Planning
- game dev
- Projects I am making lessons learnt
- Gaming Content showing interesting articles
- Gaming Videos I come across
- Game marketing
- Short Tutorials and Quick Wins?
Thanks for reading, and I’m excited to see where this goes in 2025.
Links for further reading
https://socialmediaescape.club/2024/social-media-thrives-on-the-illusion-of-its-necessity/
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