I have a Wordpress.com blog at https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com. I switched there from Blogger. Moving all that content took me most of a summer (part time) even with the Blogger import tooling, and will be much harder if I have to go to some markdown tool. This is made worse due to the fact that my site contains finicky images and formatting and (some) LaTeX math. I know a move to a static site is possible but I absolutely dread having to do this again. The transition cost for existing content (and comments!) is really high.

I chose Wordpress.com because (despite the fact that security people make fun of Wordpress) it’s full-featured and could handle my usage for about $100/yr. Now it’ll apparently be $180, which is an annoying surprise price increase. But the real annoyance is 100,000 visits per month for the paid plan: I’ve had months that easily blow past this limit (due to HN hugs) and I genuinely don’t know what will happen to the site if this happens in the future. That limit is extremely problematic and makes me wonder if the company is entering a terminal decline.