I have been on Blogger's platform since 2006. That's before Google bought them! But the benign, then the malign, neglect for keeping a blogging platform viable through the changes as the internet evolved kept chafing at me since 2015.
Blogger has recently separated itself from needing a Google account to blog after the hilarious failure of Google's social media endeavors. Still, it never embraced promoting and sharing content after it became secondary to social media posts. Looking at the vanilla "share content" buttons tells you how stuck in the past Blogger is.
So, this is my last post on Blogger. Nineteen years through so much upheaval and evolution of content creation was a wild ride. But Blogger is the past, and it will stay in the past.
What about WordPress? Ask the WordPress guys how they feel about the infighting between its founder and open-source platforms that compete with it. How comfortable do you think your free WordPress.com account and blog are now?
As someone who saw the birth of the internet through email chains and newsletters, I laugh every day that the most successful content creators for a thousand-word block of text rely on distributing to their avid subscribers through email again. What a failure Web 2.0 was.
So, follow my content on Substack. You can use RSS feeds, but you get curated content directly in your inbox if you subscribe.
Most of my blog content is already over there. The import process was easy, but the formatting did not carry over. TLDR; all my pictures and text are over at Substack. You don't need to use Blogger to find an old blog post. The video of 10 Second Anime didn't make it over, though. But after Google nuked my Drive content after a copyright troll from France spammed DMCA takedown notices for fair use content, it doesn't matter.
Blogger and Google are in the rearview mirror of text and multimedia content creation. Selling ads next to AI-generated and scraped content doesn't pay their bills anymore.
So, please, come to Joeschmo1of3 Omake Gif Anime & Omake ScreenCap | Joe Morris | Substack. Subscribe so you get the Geh content you like and other process-oriented material. (Who wants behind-the-scenes stuff instead of anime boobies? People do, apparently.) Substack makes it easy to contribute monetarily, too.
I hope to see all of you loyal readers over at Substack. Please comment to let me know who you are. The next phase of blogging begins now. Please join me.
