So the main reason I finally started building this app after two years of sitting on the idea is that I got really big mad at the Wordpress.com hosting I was using to run https://staires.org.

For the past several months Wordpress had a bug which would delete entire paragraphs of text as you were writing. The official explanation was that a Shift+Backspace shortcut was slipped into Gutenberg, their writer interface, and that people (like me) end up accidentally hitting Shift+Backspace all the time. I don’t know if I believe this because I have no real idea how I would be hitting that shortcut on accident.

Either way, needless to say, other people were very upset about this as well. I felt like I got the brush off when I reported it, so I reported it again. And I went so far as to email Matt Mullenwag directly because it frustrated me so much (no response).

Allegedly they’ve fixed it now, though no one has reported in the support thread that it’s been fixed. And I wouldn’t know, as I’ve been building Postalgic, and as of today staires.org is now a Postalgic blog. Cool!

I won’t be turning my back entirely on Wordpress, as I’ve never had any real issues with my self-hosted instance over at https://amiantos.net, though it would be cool if Postalgic could be powerful enough to host my “full blog” and not smaller focused setups like staires.