After much consideration — and a bit of regret — I made a drastic decision: to create a brand-new personal website, built on a simpler platform, with both open and closed source content, and a renewed vision.
Time passes, needs evolve. We adapt, we change, we experiment. I wouldn’t call it resilience — a term that’s far too overused nowadays — but rather adaptability… and the freedom to change your mind.
The change was total, starting from the domain: it now contains my full name, instead of the old abbreviation.
While at it, I also decided to change the CMS, for two main reasons:
- Slow and complex updates: with free hosting, upgrading Drupal meant dealing with obsolete packages and themes, painfully slow FTP uploads, and less-than-agile programming.
- Cumbersome extension development: creating or modifying modules was made more complex by constant security issues and changing approaches.
I will miss the clean admin menus and the native multilingual support… but I can live with that.
It’s been almost 14 years since I launched rainnic.altervista.org with Drupal 7. Back then, it seemed like the most complete and professional CMS: excellent language management, custom modules within my reach, and great flexibility.
Over time, though, the headaches came: major updates that changed everything, frequent security patches, and having to give up working code and libraries.
With WordPress, I’m still finding my way around, but I already appreciate the faster updates and easier publishing. Plus, the community offers plenty of practical advice… and PHP is almost understandable, even for me!
Welcome to my new website — and happy browsing!
