Arjay’s Blog

Change of Plans

Hello friends. There have been a lot of changes in my plans… not the least of which is the fact that I’m not going to rebuild this blog anymore using Drupal, but that I’ve made a fresh start in the Listed blogging platform:

listed.to/@arjayarana

That means three things: (1) my old content will no longer be available, (2) my old writing plans are now obsolete, and (3) because Listed is a third-party service, my new blog will only just be my public journal, and not a place for the best of my writings.

Furthermore, I’m letting most of my old domains expire, including this one. And so bookmark that location above.

Lastly, I’ve already deleted my LinkedIn account. When I’m ready, I might just setup my own Hubzilla server and connect to the fediverse.

The big question that needs answering is, WHY? Why all these changes?

Well, simply put, God has led me to a new path — to become a full-fledged web developer, and to start my own web development business — and so holding on to my old blog and to my old plans (and to all the emotional baggage that come with them) will only drag me down.

I’m sorry, my friends, for disappointing you. I’m not in control of my life; much has happened in the past months, and I’m no longer the man that I was. To quote what I said in the About page:

Beginning in the first quarter of 2024, after several months of blogging… family crisis after another had forced me to close down my websites, including this blog. That time of difficulty, which had truly derailed my work and plans, culminated in the death of my father last August 2024.

Suffice it to say that because of these latest experiences, I am no longer the man that I was just months before. And in regard to my online works, because of all the changes in me, I just couldn’t pick up where I left off; I had to reorganize, and to rethink things. So that I can move on with as much fresh start as possible.

Still, I believe that my previous works (and previous plans) are not wasted; I may not reuse some of them now, but someday I will. In God’s time.

Speaking about my previous plans… I’m still holding on to the vision of FreedomWriter.Net, although I might use a Drupal multisite instead of WordPress. Or I just might come up with my own CMS, since I’m also going to do programming. However, if ever I do offer a free-speech-friendly website service someday, I won’t be using the name FreedomWriter.Net anymore. The vision might take a long time to become a reality (or it might not at all), and so there’s no point in continuing to pay for a domain name that I might never use.

This is what I’m thinking: When I’m ready to seriously write again, I’m going to use freedomwriter.net as the domain name for my new website — the new place for my best writings, and my advocacies. Something to look forward to, right?

In the mean time, I am on Listed. Follow me there :)

Arjay B. Araña
2025.01.24