Hello! And welcome to the all-new incarnation of I’m Not Doctor Who, which can now be found at https://imnotdoctorwho.moegamer.net instead of its previous WordPress.com incarnation. (The old site is still there for archival/linking purposes, but all new updates will now be over here.)
Why did I do this? I think you know why, if you’re a regular follower, anyway. After Automattic’s dumbass automated “anti-spam” systems mistakenly flagged my blog and simply nuked it (albeit temporarily) rather than attempting to contact me in any way, I became somewhat concerned as to the “security” of the memories I have stored on this here blog. 17+ years of them, to be exact, and it would be a real pisser to lose them. Because while this blog is and always has been an unfocused mess with no real purpose other than to be a scratch pad for me to write whatever I feel like, it’s mine, and having some idiotic undoubtedly “AI” (ugh) powered bot potentially take it away from me at a moment’s notice without even telling me made me feel like it was probably time I took better ownership of it.
So here we are, on a shiny new subdomain of moegamer.net, my gaming website. I think most of the important stuff has transferred over now, though not without fighting WordPress’ terrible import function and the fact that no website on the Internet, including WordPress themselves, actually hosts up-to-date information on how to perform the export and import function correctly. Consequently, there may be a few broken images here and there, so please feel free to let me know if you spot any and I’ll attempt to fix them.
The incident earlier in the week highlighted how important this site is to me, though. Not only has it played host to two sets of daily ramblings in the form of the #oneaday blogs, it also includes several creative writing projects of varying degrees of finishedness, photographs, memories of dearly departed pets, and all manner of other things. It has also helped me survive several incredibly tough periods of my life.
The more I thought about it while the site was down the other day, the angrier I felt that it had just been snatched from me without warning — and, I reiterate, without me having done anything wrong. This was entirely on WordPress’ parent company Automattic, who are going in hard on “AI” bullshit at the moment. And so while this site is still running on the WordPress software, it is no longer running on Automattic’s platform, meaning I am not beholden to the whims of their automated shit machines going voonkarankachank and nuking any blogs they feel like without having the courtesy to contact the authors first.
So that’s that. Welcome, I guess. And let’s see where things go from here!
Want to read my thoughts on various video games, visual novels and other popular culture things? Stop by MoeGamer.net, my site for all things fun where I am generally a lot more cheerful. And if you fancy watching some vids on classic games, drop by my YouTube channel.
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