I checked the cpanel stats at the tamba2 domain earlier. Not because of the blog - apparently 154 people take the feed there for some reason - but because I had an email asking if I would update one of the guides in the /wordpress directory. Some there are still valid, others have fallen behind and I really do not have the time to keep them all up to date. But that part of the domain is well linked (it used to be a PR7). In Feb it got just over 8750 visitors and it is not actively promoted anywhere.
There are 2 parts to Tamba2 - the blog and the guides. That’s it. I was debating completely closing the blog and just keeping the guides which is when I wondered about shutting them too - and then I looked at the stats. So.. do I keep the domain and let the pages wither away, do I try and update, do I sell the domain (wonder how much a splogger would pay?). I have no attachment to the domain anymore - bar an email address and they are disposable anyway - so I’m stuck as to what to do at the moment.
I could just leave it all alone but I feel guilty that what could still be a useful selection of guides is gathering dust.
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You helped me learn WordPress and, blogging in general, in the early days. I believe you should leave the guides in place. In the early days of WordPress history you were one of the top community notables and influencer’s. At least, discuss with Matt Mullenweg about storing your guides on the WordPress codex server. You and your guides were an intrical part of history, and the guides should be preserved as such.
By the way, what drove you to end your long established personal site?
Most of that work is in Codex :)
And leaving tamba2? It felt like the right thing to do. I tried to explain to Jacqui earlier - she asked the same thing - and it’s all really in my last post on T2. (What I should have done is started T3…). Lots had changed and it felt right. There was a disconnect for me. But it’s all still there and I could merge this with that and get it all back together in minutes if I wanted.
The guides - be nice to find an active keeper though if that person exists.
For what it’s worth, the Wordpress Guides are what helped lead me to this site, and I’ve just subscribed. Plus, you helped me figure out how to get Google Ads into my sidebar. I’m new at this. So sue me.
Then I was very pleased to discover references to Infocom, and especially Trinity — one of the few of those games I actually managed to finish. Generally, I get eaten by a grue.
The point being, the old site is still doing some good, and thanks for that.
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