Delete Facebook

I have had a Facebook page as a photographer for more than a dozen years. My page was created on May 29, 2012. Over the years, it has grown to include 83 galleries with 3,119 photos and gathered 678 likes.

But nobody touched it since 2019 — and for once, COVID-19 isn’t to blame. I lost interest. It wasn’t giving me anything in return. Not even the “thumbs up” triggered an endorphin rush. I didn’t care anymore. It doesn’t matter anymore; I’ve killed it, and the page is gone. I’ve deleted everything. One less skeleton in the closet — and that’s always a win. :)

In September 2022, I once again announced my plan to rework this website, though I didn’t know how then. I’d stopped chasing photography as a job years ago, so it no longer made sense for the site to focus solely on that.

Then, two weeks ago, I finally snapped. I got fed up with WordPress — the platform I’d been using since 2015 — after the development of CMSMS (my CMS of choice since 2007) went downhill. This time, I’m switching to something leaner and more modern: Hugo.

As with any transformation, there’s some collateral damage. During the first migration, I split up many old posts so each gallery became its entry. This time, I’m dropping all posts written in Czech. Hugo supports multilingual content, but I don’t have the energy to write everything twice. That means around thirty posts will be temporarily unavailable — I never translated them. On the other hand, while migrating the galleries, I discovered over forty that had never been published on WordPress. I’ll be bringing those back online. So, if you’re into LARPs and reenactments from around 2007 to 2015, you have something to look forward to.

The transformation isn’t complete yet — there’s still a lot to do — but I’m already much happier with this site version than the WordPress one. Soon, the site will feature a responsive design (so it looks better across different screen sizes), a working search, and comments. All images will be converted to modern, lossless and smaller WebP format and adequately scaled. At one point, I considered running every post through Grammarly (or something similar) and adding excerpts to appear in the blog listings. But no — the quality of the texts is appropriate for the time they were written, just like the photos. And that’s how it should stay.