For many years I’ve been writing posts for my big blog using the excellent Mac app MarsEdit, but three days ago, thanks to a change in security procedure at my service provider, it stopped working. Worse: trying to post from MarsEdit brought down my whole site. After some back and forth, it was made clear to me that there would be no fix.

So what do I do now? One thing I won’t do is write in the WordPress editor — that’s a nightmarish experience. For now I am writing my posts in BBEdit and then pasting them into the WordPress editor, which is awkward; I don’t think that’s a long-term solution. So my options are:

1. Get a new hosting provider and go through the long slog of transferring all my data there and hoping that nothing gets lost.
2. Just do all my blogging here at micro.blog (which, by the way, works perfectly with MarsEdit).

That second choice is appealing because (a) it’s easy to write in micro.blog on virtually any device, (b) there are multiple ways to post, and (c) it would enable me to consolidate my online presence in one place, since I am already using micro.blog for photos, links, reading management, etc.

But over at blog.ayjay.org I don’t just have fifteen years of posts, I have fifteen years of tagged posts. I would really miss being able to relate posts to one another by tag. Also, I like the theme I’m using there better than any available micro.blog theme.

So I’m torn. At the moment I’m leaning towards going all-in here at micro.blog. But I’d be interested to hear any thoughts from you, dear readers.