For a while, Err0r.net started becoming a little bit of everything.
It had members, a forum, downloads, news, reviews, projects, and various other features that slowly pushed it closer to becoming another full community website. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, but after thinking about what I actually want Err0r.net to be, I’ve decided to simplify things.
Err0r.net is going back to being what it makes the most sense as: my personal website and blog.
And part of the reason for that is pretty simple.
TechGear007 Is Back
I recently decided to reopen TechGear007, which is once again available at:
TechGear007 has always made more sense as the home for the community-oriented side of things. Forums, members, downloads, technical discussions, and the other features associated with TG007 belong there.
Trying to maintain many of those same features on Err0r.net at the same time would mostly mean maintaining two websites that are trying to do the same job.
I apparently enjoy creating work for myself, but even I have limits.
So rather than continuing to turn Err0r.net into TechGear007 2.0, I’m separating the two again.
What Is Changing on Err0r.net?
Some of the community features on Err0r.net will be turned off, including things such as the forum and member system.
That doesn’t mean Err0r.net is shutting down.
Quite the opposite.
It just means the site is becoming more focused.
I’ll continue using Err0r.net for the things I originally enjoyed having a personal website for: writing about whatever happens to interest me.
That will include news, reviews, opinions, technology, websites, projects I’m working on, random observations, and probably the occasional rant when something annoys me enough to deserve one.
In other words, expect roughly the same person behind the keyboard, just with fewer unnecessary buttons around him.
A Blog Doesn't Need to Be a Social Network
One thing I’ve realized is that every website doesn’t need accounts, profiles, private messages, forums, achievements, badges, notifications, and seventeen different reasons to log in.
Sometimes a website can just be a website.
There was a time when personal websites were simply places where people posted things they thought were interesting. You visited them once in a while, read something, maybe left a comment, and came back later to see what was new.
There’s something refreshingly simple about that.
I want Err0r.net to feel more like that again.
I Still Want People to Stop By
Even though I’m scaling back the community features, I still hope people continue checking in from time to time.
I’ll keep posting things that I think are interesting, useful, entertaining, or worth talking about. Some will be technology related. Some probably won’t be. If I find something worth reviewing, I’ll review it. If something is happening that I have thoughts about, there’s a decent chance those thoughts will end up here.
And comments will still give people a way to join the conversation when they have something to add.
You don’t need an entire social network built around a website for people to talk.
Two Sites, Two Different Purposes
Going forward, the separation is pretty simple.
TechGear007 will handle the community and technology-resource side of things.
Err0r.net will be my personal site.
That actually makes both websites easier for me to understand, easier to maintain, and hopefully better for the people visiting them.
TechGear007 can concentrate on being TechGear007 again without Err0r.net trying to duplicate it.
And Err0r.net gets to be a little more personal, a little more random, and probably a little more me.
Which is really what it should have been all along.
So if you’re interested in forums, downloads, technical discussions, and the rebuilt TechGear007 community, visit https://tg007.net.
And if you just want to see what I’m working on, what I’m reviewing, what caught my attention, or what I’ve decided to complain about this week, keep checking back here.
Err0r.net isn’t going away.
It’s just getting back to what it was supposed to be.
