Daniel Jalkut has bad news for Blogger users — Google is shutting down an images API.
Colin Devroe reminds us not to rely on mega-corporations keeping our beloved services alive. They won’t.
@brentsimmons I agree with this, but counterpoint: how many Blogger sites have been kept dependably online that wouldn't have if it owner had stopped paying the bill for the domain and hosting?
@davextreme @brentsimmons, I too agree, but do also think there's a place for things Ilike blogger) hosted by companies. Not only have blogger sites been kept dependebly online for all this time without the user having to pay for hosting and a domain, but many of those blogs would never have started at all without a big company footing the bill for it.
@davextreme @brentsimmons - That being said I have been encouraging anyone who can to move their blogs to something they control a bit more. I've mentioned this here and there but Google+ while not very popular with most people was huge in the tabletop roleplaying community. I'm hoping that a lot of the folks active there will go to, or (in many cases) return to blogging when G+ finally shuts down. Unfortunately many of those blogs are/were blogger blogs and I'm growing increasingly concerned about blogger's future too. I may redouble my efforts to suggest people move to wordpress or somewhere else just in case. I'm really sad about all the stuff that's being lost with the demise of Google+, and I'll be perhaps even more saddened when Blogger is inevitably "sunsetted" by Google. It's been pretty stagnent for a while now.
@numericcitizen Since Wordpress is open source, you have the option to take the code and run it elsewhere. Or just move to another Wordpress hosting provider.