Blogger was amazing when I first began blogging in 2004. That’s right, there are posts on my blogs dating to the year Google relaunched the platform. Today, Blogger isn’t so great. It feels old and out-dated.
But it works and I have hundreds of posts on five Blogger-hosted blogs (1334 as of tonight). The idea of exporting and importing 13 years of posts into WordPress or Medium scares me. Should I migrate? I do not know. I’m preparing to start podcasting in 2018 and it would much easier to create podcast feeds and links within WordPress.
Blogger themes? They stink, and customizing or creating your own is a pain. I don’t like the choices, yet I don’t have the time to tweak the themes as much as I want. Even the tweaks I have made are lost too often – and that annoys me.
Blogger’s editor? It stinks. So does the formatting of posts with line breaks in place of paragraphs. Google could surely make Blogger an HTML5-compliant platform or at least use something more like TinyMCE for editing.
I’m frustrated by Blogger on a regular basis. My experiments with MarsEdit are only making me dislike Blogger that much more. Because I earn some money from the blog (Google AdSense), I don’t want to do anything rash that won’t at least maintain the revenue. I’d need to register domains, pay hosting fees, and so on because I’d rather have control over my WordPress installations and configurations.
Bloggers abandoned Blogger, ironically, and I understand why.