Three years of hard work, completely erased. Hours upon hours of research, editing, typing, and formatting, completely wiped out. Decimated. Gone. Reduced to atoms.
You might notice that the last article on this site before this one was published in late 2018. But that isn’t because I haven’t posted anything since then, it’s because all of the changes on this site made after January 2019 was completely erased. After coming back from my impromptu hiatus this weekend, I log into my admin account to see my website was in the exact state I left it in over 2 years ago, before the massive overhaul that I did early 2020.
I’m not going to bore you with the details, but in short, WordPress didn’t hold onto the changes I made, since my hiatus was longer than six months. I assume this is to save space on their servers, but still, it was bad news nonetheless. I was able to recover only one article I wrote during that time, one that will be reposted in its entirety soon.
I’m still not as mad about it as I think I should be, though. I’ve seen people whose houses burned to the ground in wildfires, losing literally everything they had, and they still bounced back from it. I figure that if they could go through that, then without a doubt I can go through this.
Of course, this will involve redoing all the cool and awesome changes I made. This includes changing things that still use the old name of Likewise instead of Likewise12. If you see anything out of order, please bear with me, as things will slowly get back to the way they were over time. For now, no promises on posting schedules; I’m laser-focused on my mental health right now, and can only afford to post sporadically for the foreseeable future. Rest assured that I will try my best to bring the best content I possibly can.