Low Class Ink

I’m considering switching from Wordpress to Tumblr. I’ve been using self-hosted WP for almost a year now, and the annual fee + my shitty webhost are making me wonder if I even need all of that. I mean, I basically jot down a few thoughts and post the occasional picture, right? Nothing complicated. So why do I even need a self-hosted page? (The answer is that I initially wanted a customizable theme, otherwise I probably would’ve stuck with regular WP.com.)

And Tumblr’s backend is so easy. Everything’s so pretty over here, whereas WP is clunky and wordy. It’s the difference between flipping through a magazine and poring over a dictionary. …Except along those same lines, it’s much easier to search through a dictionary than a magazine - WP has a GREAT archive/catalog system that lets me search by tag, category or date. Tumblr’s archives are a little less defined.

On the other hand, Tumblr lets you reblog and be reblogged, and it’s probably a lot easier to gain readers/followers here (it gets lonely being a WP blogger). But WP lets me have my own media library, and I just like the control of hosting my own blog. Also, the WP widgets are easier to work with than having to dig through theme code here for the sidebar. But I feel like I might potentially blog more often if I migrated to Tumblr, and isn’t that the whole point? Of course, then there’s the whole issue of exporting and backdating every single old WP post I ever wrote, which is a massive pain in the ass, so there’s that. Sigh.

So do I stay or do I go?

UPDATE: Serendipitously, Serena just wrote about this issue last week. Timely! Oooh, I’m leaning toward switching to Tumblr already, and I haven’t even finished reading her post.