I'm not digging Vox anymore
Things I like about vox:
Integration with 3rd party sites when posting is really great.
The community is great.
The concept of the neighborhood is great.
I really like the people that started it, and where they've gone with it.
I love the idea of the vox question of the day.
I love how it makes blogging less about the technology and more about actually connecting you to others.
What I'm not digging:
Vox is the one site I don't own. I've been making websites since 1995, blogging since 1998, and I tried to do it alone wherever I could. I wrote my own CMS, I started my own team blog that I was really proud of, I design every last pixel of my sites (a recent notable exception being those neat famfamfam silk icons that the entire internet uses because they're just so perfect), and on and on.
And it's sort of bugged me that this site wasn't my own. I find myself not writing as openly and as proudly as I used to on my own domains, which is nothing against vox, it's my own deal. For whatever reason, I've been daydreaming about bringing it in-house again.
I'll miss everything about vox except this nagging feeling that it's time for me to go.
