Imported every previous Red Quest post

All ~580 of them

I imported the ~580 previous Red Quest posts from the legacy Wordpress blog. The process was not as smooth as one would hope: for one thing, the comments didn’t transfer. That’s 3,700 comments, many excellent, marooned over at Wordpress. But I have no easy way to import them. Sorry. I’m not planning to delete them.

Most of the links within previous posts still point to the Wordpress blog, not to Substack, which is another minor, but real, irritation.

I’ll set up a Substack contact form when I get a chance, but message me on Twitter if you notice other things wrong. There is a setting to email previous posts to subscribers when those posts have been edited, and I’ll probably make use of that, because I assume most subscribers are relatively new, and even those who have followed Red Quest for a long time will have forgotten some ideas and stories.

Thank you to the guys who already subscribed. I was astonished when I saw those subscription notices, and thankful to the guys who subscribed, and angry at myself for not making this move two years ago, when I first considered it. Although I wrote this, life keeps introducing new topics at me, despite me having been out of the game for some time. I am out of the game, but the game is not out of me. Maybe it never will be.

My plan is to keep The Red Quest free, but, short of the p***y of a beautiful woman, money is one of the best ways to say “I like what you’re doing and keep doing it.” Substack makes throwing a couple bucks at writers you like easy, which is a cool feature. Wordpress, by contrast, is full of calls to action for writers to give Wordpress money. The admin section of Wordpress is like a casino. The two companies are pursuing very different business models, one of them being much better suited to writers and readers. The big writers all have Substacks for good reasons. Disruption in the written word space is still happening.

The software for speech-to-text is getting steadily better and more accessible, so maybe there will be a Red Quest “podcast” at some point. Substack appears to also make podcasting easy. The easier something is to do, the more people will do it. I’m writing Red Quest to make game easier for guys to do, and maybe that will make more guys do it.