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Google is killing Blogspot (and you can help)

28 points by noname120 3y ago

musicale 3y ago
I don't think Google needs any help with that.
noname120 3y ago
See the sweet stats in real-time: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/blogger/ https://tracker.archiveteam.org/blogger/ ———— You can easily contribute to the effort by running these two simple steps on your VPS or home computer: docker run -d --name watchtower --restart=unless-stopped -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock containrrr/watchtower --label-enable --cleanup --include-restarting --interval 3600 docker run -d--label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true --restart=unless-stopped atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/blogger-grab --concurrent 20 hackernews You can launch the second command several times to run multiple worker containers in parallel. On a low-end VPS you can easily run 2-3 of them. With better resources, you can run 10 of them, 20, or even more! Important: don't use VPNs, proxies, hotspots, etc.
markx2 3y ago
There may yet be a buyer ......
pamoroso 3y ago
Any specific sources other than Google's reputation as a product killer?
- pabs3 3y ago
  They sent a mail out: http://superkuh.com/google-legacy-blogger-accounts-delete-email.txt http://superkuh.com/google-legacy-blogger-accounts-delete-em...
h2odragon 3y ago
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Blogger https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Blogger > In May 2023, Google announced that inactive accounts would be deleted starting on 2023-12-01 across their platform, including Blogger blogs. "deleting some inactive accounts" is not "killing it". They first targeted blogger in 2015 but didn't follow through then? Hard to justify a panic now, innit? Worth making sure its mirrored, certainly. XXXX I'm grateful for the wget command they suggest there, using it to back up my wife's blog now. Edit: Their command dint work. Downloads everything then deletes the local.
- jjeaff 3y ago
  I assume the script they provide downloads it then uploads it to the archive.org site and then deleted the local copy.
h2odragon 3y ago
More effective mirror of a blogspot site: https://lisplog.org/mirroring_a_blogspot_site.html https://lisplog.org/mirroring_a_blogspot_site.html this person worked out the command so as to download the images as well.
- pabs3 3y ago
  That only saves it locally, it doesn't save it to archive.org for long-term preservation, which is what the ArchiveTeam Distributed Preservation of Service does.
cryptos 3y ago
I miss the old web, where everyone had a little website at (sometimes small) web hosting company and had everything under control. Blogspot is not the first blogging platform that disappears and won't be the last. Maybe, there is something missing in the blogging ecosystem. I'm thinking of an easy to use GUI based blogging platform that generates static files. Basically something like a static site generator (Hugo and friends) with a nice UI + something to publish the result to whatever server is configured.
Alifatisk 3y ago
Who is the archiveteam?
- noname120 3y ago
  https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page

28 points by noname120 3y ago

I don't think Google needs any help with that.

See the sweet stats in real-time: https://tracker.archiveteam.org/blogger/ https://tracker.archiveteam.org/blogger/ ———— You can easily contribute to the effort by running these two simple steps on your VPS or home computer: docker run -d --name watchtower --restart=unless-stopped -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock containrrr/watchtower --label-enable --cleanup --include-restarting --interval 3600 docker run -d--label=com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true --restart=unless-stopped atdr.meo.ws/archiveteam/blogger-grab --concurrent 20 hackernews You can launch the second command several times to run multiple worker containers in parallel. On a low-end VPS you can easily run 2-3 of them. With better resources, you can run 10 of them, 20, or even more! Important: don't use VPNs, proxies, hotspots, etc.

markx2 3y ago

There may yet be a buyer ......

pamoroso 3y ago

Any specific sources other than Google's reputation as a product killer?

pabs3 3y ago
They sent a mail out: http://superkuh.com/google-legacy-blogger-accounts-delete-email.txt http://superkuh.com/google-legacy-blogger-accounts-delete-em...

h2odragon 3y ago

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Blogger https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Blogger > In May 2023, Google announced that inactive accounts would be deleted starting on 2023-12-01 across their platform, including Blogger blogs. "deleting some inactive accounts" is not "killing it". They first targeted blogger in 2015 but didn't follow through then? Hard to justify a panic now, innit? Worth making sure its mirrored, certainly. XXXX I'm grateful for the wget command they suggest there, using it to back up my wife's blog now. Edit: Their command dint work. Downloads everything then deletes the local.

jjeaff 3y ago
I assume the script they provide downloads it then uploads it to the archive.org site and then deleted the local copy.

h2odragon 3y ago

More effective mirror of a blogspot site: https://lisplog.org/mirroring_a_blogspot_site.html https://lisplog.org/mirroring_a_blogspot_site.html this person worked out the command so as to download the images as well.

pabs3 3y ago
That only saves it locally, it doesn't save it to archive.org for long-term preservation, which is what the ArchiveTeam Distributed Preservation of Service does.

cryptos 3y ago

I miss the old web, where everyone had a little website at (sometimes small) web hosting company and had everything under control. Blogspot is not the first blogging platform that disappears and won't be the last. Maybe, there is something missing in the blogging ecosystem. I'm thinking of an easy to use GUI based blogging platform that generates static files. Basically something like a static site generator (Hugo and friends) with a nice UI + something to publish the result to whatever server is configured.

Alifatisk 3y ago

Who is the archiveteam?

noname120 3y ago
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page