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by zer0gravity 4839 days ago
I guess they're doing everything they can to get everyone to Google+. If they can't bait you, they force you. They want their own Facebook. Probably Blogger will also be phased out as soon as they afford to.

But I don't think the future will belong neither to Google+ nor Facebook. I'm looking forward to a descentralized, user centric platform, that anyone can run on its raspberry pi box at home, that allows you to manage your data however you please.
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fernly 4839 days ago
They are still "enhancing" Blogger. Less than a month ago they introduced a drastic change in the image-upload UI that basically broke it for everyone. It appears to have been meant as an improvement but whoever did it, clearly didn't understand who used it and how. Now they are "looking at" how they can fix it.

So what are the good alternatives to Blogger? And what if you have multiple blogs with hundreds of posts in them? Reader at least is emphemeral, there's no investment of work at risk.

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mkr-hn 4838 days ago
WordPress.com can import from Blogger, and then export an almost human-readable XML file with posts. It costs money to point your own domain at it, but it has a DNS editor (text-based, but it has some click-based tools). It's worth the small price if you're concerned with easy portability.

And it's not a peripheral service like Blogger. Automattic is WordPress.com, and all their peripheral products exist to serve it. The best part? You can take your WordPress.com and turn it into an identical WordPress.org with a billion different service providers.

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anigbrowl 4838 days ago
the thing is I quite like G+. I'm not a heavy user, it has flaws, but I am interested in what they are doing with it. If they were folding Reader into it in some meaningful way, I would feel a lot better about it.
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zer0gravity 4838 days ago
Sure, it's far more efficient and profitable to make an integrated platform with all major features at hand, I'm for that too, what bothers me is that I don't have full control over my data.
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camus 4839 days ago
Far in the future when all these social networks are dead , RSS will still be alive , because it is a open protocol thus promote interoperability.
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icebraining 4838 days ago
I like RSS and don't have social network accounts, but so what? Way before these companies die, others will have taken their place and do their job.
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