Time flies, huh? This blog has hit year number two, and it's been a real fun time here. Ranting about music has been such a great catharsis for me, and this has been an outlet for a lot of my creative energy. As time went on, though, I knew this site wouldn't last. It was a great starting point, but slowly I realised there were certain things that this site just couldn't do for me.
So, in bittersweet fashion, I announce the end of auditoryappreciation.
This name has served me long enough, as a placeholder for a passion project that needed time to fully develop, an idea to bloom into fruition. This site too, has worked wonders as a place for me to put my words while I figure out how I want to make a better place for it. And we're there now.
Moving forward, auditoryappreciation will become quietless, and instead of using Blogspot, the new site is built from scratch. All existing posts have been transferred over, and updated to fit the format and style of the new site. This site will no longer be updated, but in the archival spirit, I will leave it as it is. But this will be the last post here.
I took extreme inspiration from Xisuma's blog, and with it most of his format, but from the beginning there were clear differences in what I wanted on my posts, and over time more things got added that didn't fit as well with what the platform could offer. Some posts had more tags than the platform would allow, the hyperlink system was too manual, the visual style just didn't really cut it and the mobile view was just bad. And as a computer science student, it's honestly ridiculous that it took this long to finally build a website for this, but it's done.
This isn't the only change for the anniversary. Head on over to the new site, I have a completely different write-up for that site's anniversary post, it's a whole lot of exciting stuff. This isn't a sad end in any way at all, it's just the start of the next era. It might be a new name, it might be a new look, but it's the same mind and the same kind of words. Welcome, for the first time yet back again, to quietless.net.