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I thought Google had completely abandoned Blogger. Is there a reason they are investing in it again?
by pier25 6y ago
I thought Google had completely abandoned Blogger. Is there a reason they are investing in it again?
- genericone 6y agoAn ambitious/driven PM was put on the project, and he/she is making more aggressive demands than all the ones in the last 10 years <- opinion
- oh_sigh 6y agoSomebody wanted to get promoted and needed to show "impact". Count your blessings that they didn't decide to show impact by creating yet another google chat app.
- dodobirdlord 6y agoAt some point this sort of response to every post with "Google" in the title became akin to responding "First!!" on every post. That point was, frankly, something like a year ago.
- oh_sigh 6y agoI think you're talking about the second sentence in my post, when really that was just a joke. The main point was that it was probably done by someone looking to show an impact for promotion, which I don't think is a HN meme regarding google, like (n+1 chat apps, google eats your privacy, what will google deprecate next) are.
- ma2rten 6y agoThe same reason that some other Google products have been redesigned recently: They used GWT and GWT has been deprecated.
- pier25 6y agoWhen they launched the last Gmail redesign in 2018 I used an extension to check what they had used and it showed up Vue: https://twitter.com/PierB/status/989630991051476992 https://twitter.com/PierB/status/989630991051476992 It doesn't show up anymore so they probably obfuscated it.
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- ma2rten 6y agoGmail uses Wiz. The extension was probably misclassifying it. https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/958696304149868545 https://twitter.com/cramforce/status/958696304149868545
- cromwellian 6y agoNon-UI code is able to be compiled with J2CL, which shares GWT's runtime. However, the UI would have to be replaced with Wiz.
- thisistheend123 6y agoI have a newbie question. Since blogger is such a stable platform and hasn't seen much change feature wise for sometime now, why does one have to rewrite it if some framework that is uses has been deprecated. Just asking.
- toyg 6y agoProtecting it from security holes in the framework would be one reason. Ensuring somebody in your org still knows how it works and could fix stuff in a pinch, is another.
- Doctor_Fegg 6y agoAh, that explains why the long moribund Groups has been updated too.
- mikro2nd 6y agoToo many UI designers and not enough real work for them to do? Seems to me there's far too much of that sort of thing going on in the software economy (not just UI designers!) -- far too much redeveloping existing wheels (and usually not for the better) and far too little actual advancement of the state of the art, far too little actual innovation.