Like I have so much spare time, I just started another blog because of a sort of impulsive purchase of musgrove.blog. Automattic, which is a company owned by the co-founder of WordPress, bought the right to sell the TLD .blog and marketed it pretty well. And that’s about it. It’s been a frustrating experience, especially for the premium price tag. There’s no explanation of what he’s doing with regards to the customer, and the website isn’t designed to explain what’s going on either. It just tries to lead you by the nose. To log into your account for example, you have to fill in a form with your email address, be sent a link to log in, then after going to your email application and doing that, you’re taken back to the first site, where you can then click on a link to go to the dashboard. That’s a lot of clicking around in 2016 to have something you’d rather have at your fingertips.
So I set it up on @medium, along with a stable of other publications. In a move that seems more like something GoDaddy would do than WordPress, whose community hates GoDaddy, I can’t change the DNS settings myself. My “concierge” does it for me, which was a couple of days ago. I had her change 12 A records and a cname, and it still hasn’t propagated. It usually takes less than 5 minutes elsewhere, although you’re always given a standard disclaimer that it could take forever. I’m too lazy to research it, but I have to imagine medium is eroding WordPress’ market share. Even though it’s growing, it’s feeling some competition.
So I wait.
