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Personally I hope it goes away. I would like to see Google focus on enabling bloggers and site creators to host their own sites and work to build and automate o

Personally I hope it goes away. I would like to see Google focus on enabling bloggers and site creators to host their own sites and work to build and automate open source projects into their cloud products. There are so many static site frameworks for bloggers at this point that it would be ideal for them to do something similar to Netlify and work on great themes for Hugo or other static site generators.

coldtea 8y ago
>Personally I hope it goes away. Yeah, let's let millions of words, and thousands of invaluable posts go to bit rot...
- techntoke 8y ago
  There are already a lot of tools for migrating Blogger sites. I'm sure they could setup a migration path to their free cloud tier.
  - dcbadacd 8y ago
    You're assuming every blog is cared about by its owner, what if it's just the readers?
    - snazz 8y ago
      Switching it to read-only/static and offering migration paths would satisfy both parties then.
    - arthur_pryor 8y ago
      if you like something or think it's important, and you want the internet to preserve it for posterity, force it to be crawled by the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org https://web.archive.org (usually stuff i want to save has already been crawled, but i always find it satisfying when something i plug in there hasn't been archived yet)
Waterluvian 8y ago
I'm going to guess around 99% of bloggers don't want to think at all about site creation and hosting. They want to buy/pick a theme, modify it a little, and focus on the reason they're there in the first place.
- techntoke 8y ago
  And this could be accomplished. Check here for some solutions: https://gohugo.io/tools/frontends/ https://gohugo.io/tools/frontends/ GitLab already integrates with Hugo for one-click site hosting and deployment using Pages: https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-gitlab/ https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-gitlab/
  - Waterluvian 8y ago
    What percentage of bloggers do you suspect meet the "assumptions" criteria on that page? I'm fascinated by how tech people perceive the other 99% of web users/content creators.
    - techntoke 8y ago
      I'm not saying it is perfect, but it could quickly be made ready to be as simple as Blogger is today.
      - joshuamorton 8y ago
        Short of being hosted for you, no, it simply can't.
        techntoke 8y ago
        Services like GitLab and GitHub already host these sites for you for free.
        Crinus 8y ago

coldtea 8y ago

>Personally I hope it goes away. Yeah, let's let millions of words, and thousands of invaluable posts go to bit rot...

techntoke 8y ago
There are already a lot of tools for migrating Blogger sites. I'm sure they could setup a migration path to their free cloud tier.
- dcbadacd 8y ago
  You're assuming every blog is cared about by its owner, what if it's just the readers?
  - snazz 8y ago
    Switching it to read-only/static and offering migration paths would satisfy both parties then.
  - arthur_pryor 8y ago
    if you like something or think it's important, and you want the internet to preserve it for posterity, force it to be crawled by the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org https://web.archive.org (usually stuff i want to save has already been crawled, but i always find it satisfying when something i plug in there hasn't been archived yet)

Waterluvian 8y ago

I'm going to guess around 99% of bloggers don't want to think at all about site creation and hosting. They want to buy/pick a theme, modify it a little, and focus on the reason they're there in the first place.

techntoke 8y ago
And this could be accomplished. Check here for some solutions: https://gohugo.io/tools/frontends/ https://gohugo.io/tools/frontends/ GitLab already integrates with Hugo for one-click site hosting and deployment using Pages: https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-gitlab/ https://gohugo.io/hosting-and-deployment/hosting-on-gitlab/
- Waterluvian 8y ago
  What percentage of bloggers do you suspect meet the "assumptions" criteria on that page? I'm fascinated by how tech people perceive the other 99% of web users/content creators.
  - techntoke 8y ago
    I'm not saying it is perfect, but it could quickly be made ready to be as simple as Blogger is today.
    - joshuamorton 8y ago
      Short of being hosted for you, no, it simply can't.
      - techntoke 8y ago
        Services like GitLab and GitHub already host these sites for you for free.
        Crinus 8y ago