Bye Bye Google Blogger

Shaos — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:33:52 +0000

I’m on WordPress now and almost all links are saved

Import from Blogger was perfect!

Permalinks with custom structure /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html correctly replicate Blogger’s URLs

I installed plugin “Smart 404″ to handle broken URLs to labels – it’s working fine

But now archive URLs are different and RSS feed URLs are different – it is minor problem

No more FTP in Blogger

Shaos — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:01:00 +0000

Google has decided to drop FTP support in Blogger since March this year. So what should I do?

to switch to something.blogspot.com and lose all my search engines entrances?
to switch to Blogger’s “custom domain” (probably shaos.net) and again lose all my search engines entrances?
to say good-bye to Google Blogger and convert my blog to something else in the same place (shaos.net/blog) and save all my search engines entrances?

P.S. I’m glad to be part of “unique” 1/200 subset of Blogger users who was using FTP, but it’s just too sad…

P.P.S. It looks like more political than technical decision – they simply want to have power to shut down any blog entirely in 1 sec…