Why I don't upgrade to WordPress

 It's been over a decade of StramaXon, and since I started blogging on things I learn, do and want to share with people. Blogger was the first choice back then, it was free and what else can be a better deal breaker for a young student to start his own website. 

Years have passed, WordPress is now more popular than ever and I in my professional career have built many many WordPress websites and I am totally aware of its pros and how well you can manage everything. 

So why I don't move to WordPress ?

I have given that a thought, I worked on wireframes and designs for a fresh new version of StramaXon on WordPress but dropped it later. 

It's the nostalgia. The nostalgia  I have for Blogger platform is beyond anything. StramaXon is one of the oldest work from the beginning of my work in this field that's still continuing, albeit not as paced as it used to be back in 2012-2015 but I still love to regularly write a few bits every now and then. 

Maybe in the future I change my mind and archive this blog and move to WordPress but for now Blogger is what I am sticking to. Probably will do some minor design updates, make some performance improvements and so on. 

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