Tilting at Windmills

It’s interesting how history repeats itself…

Eight months ago, Yahoo shut down their blog service, Yahoo 360. Given that it wasn’t a very good blog service in the first place, I didn’t shed many tears. However, I was left with the problem of where to locate my blog. Yahoo generously offered transfers to WordPress, but I had it in my mind to move to Blogger instead. Several of my friends used Blogger, and it looked like it had a lot of flexibility and control.

Moving over wasn’t easy, though. Blogger had no support for importing Yahoo 360 blog entries, so I had to actually create a WordPress blog first, and then transfer from that! And then Blogger didn’t get any of the comments for my older posts. Still, I was willing to forgive and forget.

And now, Blogger has decided it’s too much trouble to offer FTP services. Instead, they’d rather make all their users use their web hosting services. Since the majority of their users use it for free, it’s not a total surprise. However, a lot of FTP users were that way for a reason… they had a lot of custom content that required their own server, or they already had domain space to use, etc. I think Blogger’s going to find the fallout from this move far worse than they thought it would be. In addition, the fact that Google owns their servers may hurt them as well; Google’s reputation for security has gotten rather tarnished of late…

Anyway, I’ll be updating the CSS for this blog in the next few days to make it something more unique and to my tastes over the standard appearance. WordPress looks like a good blog service, I hope to stick with them. And I like that I got all my old comments back as well!

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