Told ya. Two years ago in the post Death to Blogger, I said this about the Blogger FTP service.
I’ve been with Blogger since April 2000 and I’ve finally had enough. It is clear that Google has no intention of repairing the code that runs the FTP accounts. It is slow and buggy.
Today Google announced it will no longer support FTP accounts after March 26th. In other words, if you built a site using your own domain and the Blogger service, you now have less than 2 months to migrate to another tool or you will be forced to use Google as your web host. Some people have been with Blogger for a decade. This is going to suck for them. It took me weeks to move 2 years of blogs and update all the links and I’m good at this. The average Blogger user is about to experience some pain.
I am fortunate that I moved this site to WordPress two years ago. However, DigitalColony.com still uses Blogger. It can’t be rolled into the Google Borg because I host code labs on my domain. Looks like I’ll be putting the Digital Colony rebuild on the front burner.
Two years ago I told you Blogger sucked. I also warned you about BlogSpot. It is crappy code. Avoid it.
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