As part of my desire to start blogging (in all forms) more, I’ve connected this blog to my forum account so that posts here will be posted as status updates there as well. If all goes well, this will be the first to sync! Just another way people can follow along as I try and move away from social media and focus more on my little place on the internet.
I added photo blogs and micro blogs to author pages (along with a few other aesthetic tweaks).
I have a handful of domain names I’ve stored up over the years for various projects. Some are in use, quite a few are not. When Chorus first launched I bought the short domain: chr.us for sharing short urls on Twitter to our content.
Since then Bit.ly (who was powering the short urls) has started charging a whole lot more for their service. And Twitter has put limits on how many posts can be automatically posted to their platform in a given month. Given that all the other social sites we post to don’t have as strict of limits on characters in posts, the idea of short urls doesn’t really make sense these days.
So, I am repurposing the domain name to re-direct specifically to my blog. I want to start using the “blog” portion of my website more. The goal will be to post things that don’t make sense on the homepage, and to move some of my other social media posting to one place that I control. I want to start bringing my monthly photo posts from Instagram here. I want to post more about my vinyl collection. I want to share random updates more.
And having a quick short URL to direct to the blog makes sense.
My blog: chr.us
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Here we are again sharing yet another best of list. We’ve been here before. You know the drill.
You can subscribe to my newsletter if you’re interested in a weekly rundown of the music and other entertainment I consume, and the staff compiled best of 2024 list can be found here.
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Dark Mode has existed as a perk for supporting members since 2016. It was brought to the main website in December of 2017. However, over the years as the website has been updated, so has Dark Mode, and none of the previous posts showcase how it currently looks on the main website and in the community.
This post is to give you a little preview of what life on the dark side looks like. As a supporting member you are able to set your theme on your supporter options page, or your forum browsing preferences page. Your choice will work across both sections of the website. You can choose to view the website in the Light or Dark theme, or select the “automatic” mode and the theme will be set to what your operating system theme choice is. This is a great option if you have your operating system change over to its Dark theme at sunset because then the website will automatically switch as well.
Dark Mode will also work on third party auto-embeds that support a dark theme and, of course, also works on mobile devices. And, because it’s a supporting member perk, it never has any advertisements on it.
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One of the awesome parts of running your own blog is that it is an archive of everything you’ve written over the years that you have complete control over. However, as the years go on, I realized that I don’t have a place where I can keep a nice tidy archive of my favorite things (or pieces I think are noteworthy) I’ve written. A place to document the various series or long-form pieces I’m proud of and the reviews that I think stand out above the others.
This is now that place.
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