Duct Tape and a Prayer

I could go on for pages about my reasons for writing this blog (okay, I probably couldn’t, but that’s because I’m naturally terse), but really they all boil down to one overarching reason: I want to make your WOW experience better, and mine by extension.

I can do a lot of that here on Duct Tape. You get to benefit from my experiences and experiments, and they make me a better player as well. But lately I’ve been feeling like I can’t do enough here.

I’ve also been seeing a lot of my fellow WOW bloggers complaining about their hosting recently. Their blogs aren’t customizable enough; they don’t have space to host their images or media files; they want a different platform altogether.

So I’ve put together The Story Thus Far. The first part – the bit that’s up now – is a way for you to host your WOW blog, whether you’ve started it elsewhere and want to move it or you want to start a new one. The details are all on the main page, and as an added bonus, signing up before 11:59 PM this Monday, 5/11, gets you the first year free and a 50% discount for the rest of the life of your blog. There are no setup fees or hidden costs (although there is one feature I haven’t listed there yet, because I’m not sure how I’m going to work it yet).

The Story Thus Far will have a phased roll-out, though, like the Shattered Sun Offensive. This is merely the first stage. Keep an eye out for further community-oriented features; it’s important to me to help the WOW blogging community feel like a community instead of just a random assortment of players, and to help even players who aren’t WOW bloggers to be part of that community. I’ll keep posting here with updates about the next phase of TSTF, but in the meantime, if you’re interested in a WOW blog, or in new hosting for your existing blog, please head over and take a look.

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