A number of people earlier today noticed that up-ship.com and the blog both seemed to have vanished. This occurred promptly after IT fixed a *previous* issue, one where if you came to the site using “https” rather than “http” your browser gave you a security warning. Fix one problem, incur another, worse one. But things now seem to be back up and running.
But it will happen again. It *always* happens again.
So once again I’m faced with a dire prospect: signing on to some form of social media, such as twitter, as a way to maintain some sort of online presence the next time the blog goes kerblooey. Every time it happens, I get messages from people worried that I’ve yoinked the blog, or it has been hacked, or I’ve died. The second issue has happened before, and I do fully expect that one of these days I’ll die (I haven’t yet, but looking at the track record of humanity, the verified list of actual immortals is pretty thin)… but it’ll likely take more than a few days for my website to get scrubbed after I keel over.
So… anybody have preferences/suggestions as far as social media platforms? All I’m interested in is something where I can post links to the latest blog post, and “I’m not dead” updates when needed. Gettr? Gab? I tried Discord specifically for aerospaceprojectsreview blog alternative, but I quickly found that I didn’t much care for it. Twitter, irritating as it is, seems the most popular choice. Taking suggestions.