Bear and the return to writing with joy
Moving to Bear Blog has been great. I was originally using WordPress, then a system I designed myself. They were OK, but way too busy, and I found I was more focused on the admin side of things instead of writing.
Bear is simple, easy to use, clean, and most of all, discoverable.
Whereas before I might get a hit on an article once, maybe twice a month, my Bear analytics show considerably more views.
That's great, but the important thing is that writing and then posting those stories is so, so simple. I love that. I literally take a story I wrote (I use Obsidian for that... native Markdown and project management), generate some tags, copy and paste it into a new Bear post, and publish it (unless it's a future article, which Bear handles well by keeping it scheduled).
I have even gotten feedback from a couple of people on my stories (thank you, by the way, for the kind words) who specifically stated they found me through Bear's discovery feed.
This is how the web should work!