My husband managed the domain handling and I decided to pay up for being able to blog under the old name using WordPress. After so many years of owning a blog with them it seems only fair, especially considering that I don’t get dissected here as a commodity.

It’s been years since I had to find my way through the jungle of the WordPress setting options and certain areas have changed beyond recognition, especially the editor where I’m writing. But I think it’s a good change.

There is a lot of stuff in this blog that doesn’t work right now and I still don’t have a lot of time to deal with that but at least I can use it to post new shiny content. 🤪

My main concern is comments. In the past I had so much spam that I closed off comments wherever possible and only allowed them in through a special contact form. Now we have the connection with ActityPub to the Fediverse and I’m not sure how commenting from there works when I don’t allow comments on a post. I switched them off for this one to test things out.

After yesterday’s post I followed the blog from most of my various Fediverse accounts (see the social links menu at the right) and I was able to send comments from Mastodon and Friendica. Comments from Hubzilla and Firefish didn’t arrive here but were visible to my other accounts within the Fediverse. It’s all a bit confusing and I’m going to update my big Fediverse connectivity table over on my Mastodon testing account soon and then post it here.

https://sylkeweb.com/2023/10/14/sylkeweb-com-is-back/

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