Bye, bye, Bear Blog!

Almost a year ago, I decided to give blogging a try. I thoroughly enjoyed researching and writing my posts (I put a lot of effort into them), but seeing how little traction my writings got was usually disappointing. My best-appreciated blog post was very short; I suspect that was part of its appeal. What I consider to be my best post was very niche, so I understand why it didn't get many upvotes. After that one, though, I tried to write about things that I expected to be appealing to a larger audience, but I always seemed to fail to reach them. I am either interested in things that other people don't care about, or I haven't figured out how to make those things interesting to them. Either way: life is finite, and you shouldn't spend much time on things that don't have a decent return on investment. As I wrote, I enjoyed the researching and writing, but if the enjoyment I get from those is the entire return, I might as well store my writings in an Obsidian vault and save myself the…