The original FROT website was set up using Microsoft FrontPage 98 and was first posted online in 1998. In 2008 it was updated to an Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 website, and then it was finally converted to a simplified WordPress blog in 2016. So some of the content dates all the way back to 1998.
At it's peak in 2017 it used to get over 2000 hits a day, but these days it gets bugger all traffic, and is really just 800 old archived posts taking up space on a server that we are still paying an annual fee for.
So at some stage the original blog may need to be binned, and while much of it has had it's day and won't be missed, some of those old posts were not half bad, and I'd like to keep them online.
Much as I hate Google, at this point I have to say that Blogger still works pretty well and is my favourite way to blog.
Which got me thinking, what if I set up a new FROT 2 blog on Blogger and started copying most of the old posts across to it. It might even start picking up some new traffic and give those old posts a new lease of life.
I only just had this idea today, and I'm now planning to start re-posting most of the old Frot blog posts here on this new blog, dating them from January 1 2026 so they will hopefully look like brand new posts on a fresh new blog (to any sloppy AI trawlers who are looking!).
This blog will be a fast burning candle. If I do about two posts a day, over the course of the year that will cover most of the archived Frot posts, and there are also some galleries and pages to include as well.
So I'm only intending to post updated content here for one year and then to make it an archive at the end of 2026, with no more new posts.
I'll continue posting all my new content on www.sift.co.nz
I don't plan to be too anal about any of this, so some of the posts could well still be a bit out of date. But I'll have a quick look at each of the posts as I'm copying them, and try to only include posts that I think are still worth viewing.
Possibly I'm just being a completionist old fart curator again, but part of me (the obsessive part) has an urge to do this.
Yes, these are both Blogger blogs, and Blogger is owned by Google. But ultimately, Google seem to have censored the entire internet, and Blogger is easy to use and convenient.
If my blogs are not going to get much traffic anyway, I might as well use a convenient deep state platform (Blogger) rather than an inconvenient deep state platform (WordPress).
