The End of My HEY World Experiment
No time to waste here. This post will be the last one on HEY World. After giving it a few thoughts, today, I decided to move my Friday Notes & Photo Legend Series to Substack. Why, you might ask?
It is all about control, flexibility and discoverability. HEY World is not a publishing platform. It will never be. It is a Basecamp founder’s personal hobby. Period. It has nothing to do with Basecamp's recent controversy. Let's face it, HEY World content is impossible to find, lacks publishing flexibility (embeds, schedule later a post, integration with Grammarly) and offers minimal control. Sure, HEY World wasn’t meant to replace WordPress. I get it. Behind extreme simplicity lies some frustrations. Oh, and I know Substack doesn’t have an iPad app, and I highly doubt that it will come in the future. The editing experience on the web is fine, really fine.
The other thing about HEY World is that I can't use my "Numeric Citizen" nickname with HEY World because those posts come from my personal account, which goes against my, hum hum, online branding.
Too bad. HEY World was full of promises, but never really delivered. After moving to Substack, I finally ended up on Ghost for some of my blogging needs. You can learn more here.
