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Switched long time ago to Blogger--free to use your domain, change template design as you like as much as you like, connect external widgets like Disqus (my blo
by Mikho 9y ago
Switched long time ago to Blogger--free to use your domain, change template design as you like as much as you like, connect external widgets like Disqus (my blog to check how Blogger may look: http://blog.babich.me/ http://blog.babich.me/).
Also, a huge thing is integration with Google Photos and Google Drive. You may insert in a post photos from your Google Photo right by selecting them inside an image addition menu--no need in hustling with links, just look through Google Photos inside Blogger. BTW, it's possible to see photos uploaded via Blogger in Google Photos folder inside Google Drive (Google Photos app itself does not show photos uploaded via Blogger).
You also may connect FeedBurner (Google company) in Blogger settings and collect subscription emails and also automatically send emails to subscribers via FeedBurner when a new post is published. BTW, every tag used for tagging posts in Blogger becomes dedicated RSS feed. So, if you write about different topics (e.g. coding and travel), it's easy to set up for people to follow RSS or subscribe via email only to a topic they are interested in and not everything you write.
And it's all free!
Medium feels like long-form Twitter with all these replies treated as posts. This is a terrible experience. Especially when you follow RSS feed of somebody on Medium and comments & replies are delivered and treated in the feed the same way as posts. I guess it's due to the fact that Ev was also Twitter founder and has only one construct in his head as to posts and replies.
- Rjevski 9y agoOne of the things I hate the most about Blogger is their stupid JS template where on mobile swiping left/right (to move the page if you're zoomed in) switches to the next/previous post instead.
- Mikho 9y agoI just rewrote the template completely. It's not that hard. So I do not have to deal with standard templates issues.
- asavadatti 9y agoYes but since it is owned by Google I'm afraid that they will shut it down on a whim
- Mikho 9y agoI do not think so. Too many blogs are there that provide Google with data and show Google Ads. It's a valuable asset for Google.