I keep breaking links and wish I’d do better. write.as/jackbaty/…
@jack not a bad idea having an everything feed. Then it allows you to try new things and have all of it feed one location. However, it doesn’t solve a problem if you want to drop a service and are not sure what to do with the archived stuff. But it does help with the followers side of things so they can keep up 😄
@ericmwalk Right, when no longer using a service, where does everything go? In some cases I've grabbed a static mirror and put it somewhere else. That doesn't help with broken links, but at least eventually Google catches up.
@jack Over the years, I have realized that the only things that break for me are images. So, I have decided to keep them separate static server, now.
@pimoore For the feed? It's a WordPress plugin installed on the Copingmechanism.com blog. Not the ideal place, but the only WP site I have. www.wprssaggregator.com
@amit @jack This is one huge benefit of a self-controlled/hosted static site, as you don’t need to worry about breaking images. Even hosting them on GitHub and pushing out to Netlify or Vercel means they won’t break regardless where you deploy. Obviously this means having to wrangle static site generators and workflows yourself, which may or may not be a good trade off.
@pimoore Half my problem has been that I waffle between nice, permanent, self-contained static images and using 3rd party image hosting. I don't enjoy the static image workflow, but like you say, it doesn't break.
@jack I really wish there was a static image workflow with responsive images that didn’t require setting up and maintaining a Rube Goldberg machine. Having to host the images is awkward enough depending on your workflow—though Ulysses will upload to GitHub pages from my previous testing—but anything beyond that in terms of resizing and generating multiple images for different devices seems to have no good solution.
If I were using a full static site I’d probably just skip using images entirely to be honest.
@pimoore Hugo has some resizing tools but I've never bothered. I just pick a reasonable size and stick with that. Sure is nice to just drag a bunch of images into WordPress or Ghost and have a responsive gallery and slideshow just appear.