RE: Constraints over customisation
Amy Kay
This is a follow up post to James Pain's Post.
Pain's post inspired me to write about my own story on this topic.
I started off blogging with my music blog, hosted on neocities. You have to learn HTML & CSS for it, which is cool I think. But as you blog more and more, you start to spend more time writing the code than actually writing a blog post. It's the main hurdle of me posting on my music blog, I simply just do not have time anymore to write HTML.
I could probably remove certain elements from my site that are redundant, but then I'm tinkering rather than writing.
This topic can apply to a lot of different things, like Linux "ricing". At a certain point you're spending more time tinkering with the system's appearance and fixing issues rather than using the system for productivity (writing, emailing, programming, etc).
Sometimes the freedom is more of a downside than an upside.
In-summary; too much customisation can lead to less productivity. Especially if that tinkering can result in even more issues.
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