FOG’s 4th Anniversary
Holy crap! Two days and four years ago, I started this blog.
Originally, FOG was at another blogging site that rhymes with Frogger for about a year. It was the WordPress stats that swayed me. They were shiny. Plus, I liked their templates better. I didn’t actually move to WordPress until April 2010, but January 16, 2009 is the date on the first Fish Of Gold post. They made it ridiculously easy with their import blog function. Do I sound too much like a WP commercial? OK then, complaints coming up…
WordPress has come a long way since I’ve been here. They’ve gone from a highly functional bare bones site to a mostly functional site with lots of flashy bells and whistles. Some of the bells and whistles don’t seem to work all that well, and they keep rearranging them for no apparent reason. I’ve had complaints recently that FOG posts are not showing up in readers and the blog search (that I have there for your convenience, but really, I use it all the time) only intermittently works. Like so:
Really? I find it difficult to believe that I’ve never used the word “the.”
In any event, no matter what the issues, I know that they’re working on it. WordPress is still the best game in town. I’ve met oodles of people whose blogs and comments I’ve come to love that I probably wouldn’t have found elsewhere. I’ve been Freshly Pressed twice. There is now a tiny little community on this site. Things are looking up for FOG. There are FOG subscribers who read posts and comment on them (when they can see them in their reader) and that certainly wasn’t always the case.
FOG is not like the early days anymore where no one read it at all. This blog would sometimes go weeks without even a single view. Sometimes, I approved spam just to feel like I wasn’t all alone in the internet. Boohoohoo.
It was hard going, but I kept at it. I hoped that, eventually, someone might find FOG since I did absolutely no self-promotion whatsoever and I still don’t. People have come and gone, and that’s alright. I love it when I don’t have to moderate comments because whomever is commenting has commented before. Repeat business! Who could ask for more?
Including this one, FOG is 5 posts away from 500 posts. Five Hundred Posts! Damn, that’s a lot. I never thought there would be that many. Granted, some of them are garbage (kind of like this one), but there are quite a few posts in there that I’m proud of. Five hundred posts is way more than I ever thought I would write. Since April 2010, this is how far FOG has come:
I cannot thank you all enough, my lovely readers. Have a cupcake.
I made them myself… in Photoshop.
18 Responses to “FOG’s 4th Anniversary”
I share your love of WordPress. Happy anniversary. Cupcakes rule.
HA! I am angry-face purple “anonymous” who made the previous comment without being logged in from my i-phone. Or something. I don’t know how these things happen. Thx for the cupcake. :)
HA! I was wondering who that was. Thanks!
Happy Blogaversary!!
Wow!! Congrats, happy birthday, happy anniversary, happy happy!! :)
Congratulations! Best fishbowl around!
hurrah! the reading has been a great pleasure and long may it continue :-)
Congrats, Goldfish! That’s awesome!
Way to go! That’s amazing!
I printed out the celebration cupcake to have for a snack but it tasted a bit papery. More sugar, perhaps?
Lol. I wasn’t sure how they would turn out.
Thanks everyone!
Congratulations! Great job on this, definitely not garbage. I can sooooooo relate to approving spam because it seems like a real person has read something you wrote. There is nothing better in this world than to write something and have someone else, get it, and take the time to comment on it. Well there might be a few things better but for the most part, it is awesome. 500 posts! That is a lot of thinking, writing and publishing. Thanks for all of that, I look forward to reading all of them. (eventually)
Definitely not garbage – or at least, your “garbage” frequently makes me giggle!! Eg you approved spam so that you would feel like you weren’t alone on the internet. I picture you typing words that floated into the vast, empty interwebs and rolled around with the tumbleweeds up there.
Those were certainly lonely days. I’m glad you found me.
Well my words were floating around in the emptiness with the same tumbleweeds (from Oct 2010, that is – which was shortly after I started reading your blog!) and they eventually crashed into your words. Ah memories. It’s really amazing how busy the interwebs have become since those days.
Yup. I’m glad those lonely days of yore are behind us.
Woah!! You’ve written 2 more posts since my previous comment, basically overnight (Australian time)??? I was so pleased that I’d just finally caught up!!
Sorry. I’ve been prolific lately. :)