I think it worked! Here are the rough steps I took to move my blog: Clone the 11ty blog template and get it roughly into shape. Push the repo to Gitlab. Set up a Cloudflare Pages application and connect it to the Gitlab repo. Download the Markdown export from Bear Blog and copy all the files into content/blog. Fix the issues with the export (see my post), convert Bear's published_date: to 11ty's date:, etc. Write a script to create my Cloudflare Pages redirects, because cool URLs don't change (or at least don't stop working). Publish the site to a test subdomain, like spike.sals.place. Because I manage my domain name in Cloudflare already, Cloudflare Pages made this wonderfully easy. I literally just typed "spike.sals.place" into a textbox and Cloudflare made it happen. This was an unexpected perk. Test the crap out of the /feed/ redirect. Publish a farewell post on Bear, both to say thanks and to give people a heads up in my case my feed breaks, or pollutes their reader with…
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