Goodbye, Nanoblogger! Hello, Nikola!

After 11 years and 1,227 posts, I've finally migrated my site from the venerable Nanoblogger over to the far more capable (and much, much faster) Nikola.

Nanoblogger did everything I needed, but it simply wasn't intended to scale anywhere near the size of my old site -- I believe I had the dubious distinction of the largest Nanoblogger instance, with about 8 times as many posts as the next-largest deployment. Posting a new photo would take upwards of ten minutes, and a full site rebuild would take multiple hours. Compare that to a full rebuild taking only a few minutes with Nikola. :)

The final step was to enable comments via Hashover, though I have yet to migrate the old comments over to the new layout. I expect the general look and theme to change a bit before I'm satisfied, but everything important is now functional!

The old site will stay up for the foreseeable future but the base URL now permanently redirects here. Anyone following via RSS will need to point at the new site or category feeds.

Oh, In case there's anyone else interested, I wrote this script to migrate the Nanoblogger posts over to Nikola's format. This was made vastly easier by my switching to markdown formatting a few years ago.

This has been on my to-do list for years now. Better late than never, eh?

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