The friendly people at WordPress manually migrated over my followers from the other site to this new one. If you subscribed through that channel, you should now be getting my posts again through your WordPress.com reader.

I migrated over to my self-hosted domain yesterday and changed the font and sizing.

The only thing that broke was Jetpack’s follower function. If you followed this blog via WordPress, you may want to just subscribe by e-mail instead through the form in the column to the right. Your privacy is guaranteed.

My guess is that it got screwed up when I set up the redirect from the wordpress.com site. My apologies if you were accessing this through that feature.

Also, the font size that I’m using is a tad big for this theme. I wanted to avoid changing the entire theme immediately, just because I don’t believe in jarring redesigns. I will eventually change the site to a theme with broader columns that’s a little easier to edit. I might also adjust the font size down by a smidgen, but all the cool design people tell me to go with big body copy font sizes, so I will be a slave to UX fashion.

I also had to kill the comment bubble on this theme that showed the comment count, because it no longer worked with the larger font size.

If anything is broken for you, or if you’d like to make a comment, just leave a reply below.

Some time in the next week, I’m going to be moving this blog from WordPress.com to my own domain, just because it’s been more successful than I expected it to be faster than I thought would happen.

I’m not terribly familiar with some of the newer WordPress social features like followers/following, but using Jetpack, all of that should port over just fine to the new site. If you are currently following this blog on WordPress (there are something like ~100 of you), I don’t think that you’ll need to change anything.

If you’ve linked to this blog before, don’t worry about your links being broken: all inbound links will be forwarded to the new domain. The only person that really needs to be notified is Free Northerner, who has been kind enough to include my blog on his superb aggregator, Reaction Times.

In the immediate term, this doesn’t mean all that much for the average reader. You will just find my blog at henrydampier.com rather than at the WordPress URL. I am also changing the font and eventually going with a different theme, but will be doing one change at a time. If you type in henrydampier.wordpress.com, you’ll be redirected to the new URL automatically.

What this will mean for you:

• The current generic font will be replaced with a cooler serif font.
• The site will look better, in stages.
• It will be easier to read.
• There will be no more ads at the footer other than those that I place for my books and Amazon affiliate links for other books.
• I will no longer be free-loading off of the good people at WordPress.
• Will be more challenging for people to report-spam this publication into oblivion.
• Easier for me to add new features that make the site more accessible in search, make my writing easier to read over e-mail, and other similar additions.

I’m going to keep writing daily updates until I either become lazy or people start becoming bored with my writing.