Request for Migration Suggestions

So, for my birthday, which it is, I have decided to get myself freedom from WordPress.

(Why, you ask? Many reasons, like being sick of its breakage and security issues, not to mention that it takes a rather more expensive droplet – it’s hosted on DigitalOcean – to serve this site than I really think it ought to. So it sucks life, and it sucks money, about ¾ of the revenue that the blog subscriptions bring in. I would like to cure both of these things. Plus, it’s getting long in the tooth and improvements I want to make to this place keep bogging down in related difficulties.)

I would also like to obtain freedom from Patreon, too, which has been getting increasingly sucky for various reasons over the years. Of course, I speak now to the kindly gentlemen who have stuck with me over the years through thick, thin, and depressive writer’s block, this is contingent on having a replacement for it that people will be willing to move to and actually will.

Essentials for me:

  • Integration with Discourse for comments. As it’s also the FAQ host and the place for conversations that doesn’t suck as well as the commenting system that doesn’t make me want to spork out my own brain, this one’s non-negotiable.
  • A blog theme that puts entire posts on the front page, and allows scroll-to-navigate. Excerpts and click-in-and-out weary me immeasurably.
  • I would prefer not to self-host it because, honestly, this no longer sparks joy.

Apart from that, my considerations are entirely open, because I have no idea what the current state of decent blog hosting is, nor am I having a great deal of luck in my research so far.

So please, your thoughts, if you would be so kind?

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