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WTF does this mean for Blogger? Does it have a migration route for the photos? If there's no migration route, a tool that could be created by one Google devel
by SillyUsername 3y ago
WTF does this mean for Blogger?
Does it have a migration route for the photos?
If there's no migration route, a tool that could be created by one Google developer, it means thousands of people now have work to fix thousands of Blogger posts. Cumulatively ~48 hours of work for a tool has just turned into at least 48000 hours for everyone else.
What's worse is, people will fix their blogs but I bet Google will use broken links as (another) justification to shut down Blogger next.
That means those 48000 hours will be an utter waste of time.
If you ever needed proof Google have no fucking strategy or clue anymore this is it (that and shutting down Google Music when YouTube Music was incomplete, people just moved to competitors).
- adsfqwop 3y agoThis is only a guess, but I get the impression Album Archive is some sort of aggregator service. The original Blogger images appear to still be stored in Blogger's own media manager. For example, many images referenced from Blogger posts contain links with URLs like https://1.bp.blogspot.com/ https://1.bp.blogspot.com/... further strengthening the case that these images originate from Blogger, not the Archive service. So in summary, my guess is that shutting down Album Archive will not affect Blogger media files. Another case for this conclusion, is that it seems totally insane to delete all of Blogger's media files, and not inform Blogger users directly, but instead do it through some obscure Archive service notice. Would be nice to get an official confirmation on this, but let's say we can make an educated guess that people's Blogger photos are probably safe.