More Bars Than You

I don’t typically park my sites on other servers.  MBTY is my only current site with the “.wordpress.com” tail on it, and I mostly did it because I wasn’t sure I would actually continue writing to it.  My fancy is fragile, and so there’s no promising it’ll stay active into the sunset.  But, having hosted my own sites, there’s a certain level of freedom one grows accustomed to.  I’m very quickly feeling the squeeze of giving those freedoms up.

There are benefits to being “on the grid” with WordPress.  I’m sure there are plug-ins that offer the same level of social integration, though I’ve never taken the effort to look for it.  Big Bear Butt uses CommentLuv, which I’ve recently joined and of which am considering making further use.

The kicker came when I discovered I could use WoWHead (where I link most of my talents and such anyways) to add hover text to my links, which I think is just an amazing tool for readers to get a quick understanding of what you’re talking about when it comes to items and talents, without having to bounce between pages.  WP hosted sites cannot use JavaScript in any capacity, which is required to make use of this functionality.  It was the last Jenga block in a tipsy tower setup by your drunken uncle who should never be allowed near anything resembling a construction tool after two drinks, even if it’s just half of a plastic box.  Reminders that I cannot edit my own themes or write my own plug-ins, which I do to an unhealthy degree, came down on me like a cascade of wooden blocks on the table of my patience.  I’m about at my wit’s end with it.

I don’t suspect I have the drive to buy yet another domain name, but since I do own skipcocoa.net, and I write here under the Skip Cocoa alias, it may be fair to compromise and host MBTY at morebarsthanyou.skipcocoa.net.  I’ve yet to make a formal decision, but it’s beginning to lean that way.  The world waits with bated breath, I know.