Hearing From You

It’s with some sadness that I decided it was time to turn off comments on this blog. I’ve enjoyed many of them over the years, even the guy who implied I was jury tampering. However, two changes have affected my desire to keep running them:

First, I want to get off WordPress thanks to the dubious lawsuits and Internet fights that have been churning along for months now. This is not a stable platform any more. That’ll be easier if I just have to preserve old comments and I don’t try and add a comment section to a static page blog.

Second, at some point I’m going to have to implement something to handle the wave of ill-advised age verification legislation. Might be because of the UK, might be because of Mississippi, don’t know and don’t care. While I have no intentions of posting porn on this blog, I am not interested in taking risks with open comments.

Also, there are places you can comment freely. The Dreamwidth mirror will keep on existing. I’m pushing posts to Mastodon at @Bryant@popone.innocence.com, although I don’t use Mastodon right now. Someday, probably after I migrate to a new platform, I’ll figure out a way to syndicate to Bluesky. My email address is durrell@innocence.com. I’m not turning off dialogue.