Valhalla Island

I know I said I wasn’t going to upgrade. I’m just sick of waiting an eternity for posts to actually post even after everything had been done on the back end.

2.0 wasn’t always smooth sailing though. I decided that seeing as though I was upgrading I may as well throw it all in it’s own subdirectory with simple PHP redirect and this whole place would be just a little tidier. That was a big mistake. Upgrading took all day. I encountered a ridiculous amount of problems. I even ran a 1.5 database roll-back script and I think that just messed things up a little more. In the end it was a miracle I didn’t lose everything.

After the ordeal of upgrading was over, everything was fine. I’ve been using 2.0 for around two weeks now and it’s wonderful. I love it.

I think it’s a mixture of a thousand little things that add up to make the whole new experience more enjoyable. Little things like having a title box that is actually the size of a title. The WYSIWYG editor is very good, I hardly use it but I much prefer how it handles everything. I like that I can be confident it’s going to produce good code. I love the flash and fade of yellow on the post saved boxes.
Being able to add a category while you’re writing a post is really handy.

I know this post contradicts nearly everything I wrote previously about 2.0 but after using it for a few weeks I can’t get enough of it. Writing posts is so much fun now. I’m always looking for an excuse to write about something now.