Hey, what gives?
Welcome to At The End of My YarnS! Plural! 2.0. ATEOMYS.com/final/reallymeanitthistime/finalfinal
What had happened here was I switched domain hosts and migrated everything to the platform that let me edit the site, add posts, etc. instead of paying two separate businesses. All was well and good for about a month until the old domain host, which I didn’t know was still tied to the editing platform (should have, but this is how we learn) blocked my old website for ‘non-payment’ despite the fact that I had switched domain hosts before the renewal period was up and no longer owed them anything. The domain host was unsurprisingly unhelpful in helping me unblock it. Full tea split on the Facebook page. I’ll admit I was a bit capricious and dealt with it initially by cursing, staring at the screen in disbelief, refreshing a dozen times, and being all ‘you wanna be like that? Fine!’ and packing up my marbles and heading home.
Blocking the old website and not letting me in to fix anything drove me to throw caution to the wind and start fresh! Hadn’t intended to lose access to all my old content and start THIS fresh but so it goes. Six years of knits, book reviews, general knitting BS down the hole! Escaped into the ether. Welp.
So the new domain is attheendofmyyarns.com with that tricky ‘s’ at the end. All the branding, etc., is going to stay At The End of My Yarn for the sake of continuity.
On the topic of REALLY SIMILAR domain names, if you’re a ‘90s kid like me and have the mind of a 14 year-old boy you might recall the scandal of looking up the White House (the one in Washington, DC) pre-google and typing in .com instead of .gov and getting more than you bargained for as a prepubescent kid. I’ll admit I never tried it (back in those days of wooden ships and steel men my primary internet access was through the blocky computers at the school computer lab and I was a little goody-two-shoes) but nothing would bring me greater joy than if once my old domain is for sale again someone turns it into a niche porn site.
The cool thing about this new site (thanks for saving me, Squarespace!) is that I have more options available for publishing PDFs and things like that. I plan to finally write up the wedding wrap cardigan pattern from YEARS ago and publish it here for download, and for free. If I get a good reception I might start drafting some paid patterns as well with expanded sizes, etc. My usual content will stay the same, with details on finished projects and some in-progress posts as well as reviewing books again, as the reviews generated most of my traffic and I’ve now lost the content. My writing style has changed over the years so it should make for more interesting reading.
See you all soon!
