Comments on: The end of Blogger? http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/ Not a real vee Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:47:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Red & Orange http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-10089 Red & Orange Tue, 02 May 2006 17:00:54 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-death-of-blogger/#comment-10089 [...] Migration from Drupal to WordPress complete Well, I finally made the move and migrated the site from Drupal to WordPress. I finished everything up yesterday and I’m now only finding some time to write about how the process went. I saw some commentary and references (doctorvee, brianpuccio.net, Thought Patterns, Weblog Tools Collection, New Links) to the ideas I placed forth in a previous post (The Drupal Dilemma) and it was interesting to read the feedback. Its nice to see that I wasn’t the only one that didn’t like Drupal as a blog publishing tool. I didn’t actually write a script to perform the migration as I found a lot of little tweaks to the process needed to be made the entire way through.Before starting I did find two sites that discussed their migration efforts from Drupal to WordPress (Panayotis Vryonis and Travis Bradshaw). Unfortunately, even the SQL statements Panayotis listed on his site did not match the Drupal db structure I had. I’m assuming that we were migrating from different versions of Drupal. So, I ended up writing SQL to do the transfer. Then it was a matter of making some minor adjustments. OK, let me amend that statement. Making many minor adjustments. [...] [...] Migration from Drupal to WordPress complete Well, I finally made the move and migrated the site from Drupal to WordPress. I finished everything up yesterday and I’m now only finding some time to write about how the process went. I saw some commentary and references (doctorvee, brianpuccio.net, Thought Patterns, Weblog Tools Collection, New Links) to the ideas I placed forth in a previous post (The Drupal Dilemma) and it was interesting to read the feedback. Its nice to see that I wasn’t the only one that didn’t like Drupal as a blog publishing tool. I didn’t actually write a script to perform the migration as I found a lot of little tweaks to the process needed to be made the entire way through.Before starting I did find two sites that discussed their migration efforts from Drupal to WordPress (Panayotis Vryonis and Travis Bradshaw). Unfortunately, even the SQL statements Panayotis listed on his site did not match the Drupal db structure I had. I’m assuming that we were migrating from different versions of Drupal. So, I ended up writing SQL to do the transfer. Then it was a matter of making some minor adjustments. OK, let me amend that statement. Making many minor adjustments. [...]

]]> By: Tom Markiewicz http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-1993 Tom Markiewicz Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:11:10 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-death-of-blogger/#comment-1993 <strong>Migration from Drupal to WordPress complete</strong> Well, I finally made the move and migrated the site from Drupal to WordPress. I finished everything up yesterday and I'm now only finding some time to write about how the process went. I saw some commentary and references (doctorvee, brianpuccio.net, ... Migration from Drupal to WordPress complete

Well, I finally made the move and migrated the site from Drupal to WordPress. I finished everything up yesterday and I’m now only finding some time to write about how the process went. I saw some commentary and references (doctorvee, brianpuccio.net, …

]]> By: mmChronic http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-1974 mmChronic Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:12:23 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-death-of-blogger/#comment-1974 I had been thinking of moving New Links for extra features (threaded comments and trackbacks for starters) for ages - but it was it's total cackness at publishing that actually prodded me into action. So it was a bit of both with New Links. ILN still has <a href="http://seehere.blogspot.com/">his blog</a> on Blogspot - he hasn't actually moved. He just got dragged across as part of New Links. ;) I had been thinking of moving New Links for extra features (threaded comments and trackbacks for starters) for ages – but it was it’s total cackness at publishing that actually prodded me into action.

So it was a bit of both with New Links. ILN still has his blog on Blogspot – he hasn’t actually moved. He just got dragged across as part of New Links. ;)

]]> By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-1928 doctorvee Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:53:23 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-death-of-blogger/#comment-1928 Incidentally, comments could be faster, but I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt to commenters. It would be a lot easier to just get rid of any comment that had the word 'poker' in it, but I don't want any legitimate comments to disappear just because of spammers. Incidentally, comments could be faster, but I prefer to give the benefit of the doubt to commenters. It would be a lot easier to just get rid of any comment that had the word ‘poker’ in it, but I don’t want any legitimate comments to disappear just because of spammers.

]]> By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-1927 doctorvee Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:46:10 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-death-of-blogger/#comment-1927 <blockquote>You can’t tell me sites like Bacon and Eh’s and PCL LinkDump are “not serious about blogging” and are “just another blogger”</blockquote> Err no, but that's not what I said. With most Blogspot bloggers, you <em>can</em> say that they're not as serious about blogging -- certainly moreso than with other blogging systems. Regarding comments, at least my ones load up eventually! <blockquote>The main reason people move away from Blogger is a lack of functuality(because it is free) and people may want to do more with their site than Blogger lets them, not because its not been working very well lately.</blockquote> Strange of you to say that aswell, because according to the last post on Old New Links, timeouts were <em>precisely</em> the reason why New Links moved to Drupal.

You can’t tell me sites like Bacon and Eh’s and PCL LinkDump are “not serious about blogging” and are “just another blogger”

Err no, but that’s not what I said. With most Blogspot bloggers, you can say that they’re not as serious about blogging — certainly moreso than with other blogging systems.

Regarding comments, at least my ones load up eventually!

The main reason people move away from Blogger is a lack of functuality(because it is free) and people may want to do more with their site than Blogger lets them, not because its not been working very well lately.

Strange of you to say that aswell, because according to the last post on Old New Links, timeouts were precisely the reason why New Links moved to Drupal.

]]> By: ILuvNUFC http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-1924 ILuvNUFC Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:48:23 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-death-of-blogger/#comment-1924 Oh and btw, moving from Blogspot never improved the time it takes to post a commenton your site. Yours are just as crap. :) Oh and btw, moving from Blogspot never improved the time it takes to post a commenton your site. Yours are just as crap. :)

]]> By: ILuvNUFC http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-1922 ILuvNUFC Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:42:43 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-death-of-blogger/#comment-1922 The main reason people move away from Blogger is a lack of functuality(because it is free) and people may want to do more with their site than Blogger lets them, not because its not been working very well lately. We are going to have to agree to diagree about your quote "It’s as though people pay more attention to you if you don’t use Blogger though — it’s a sign that you’re serious about blogging; that you’re not just another blogger; somebody to pay a bit more attention to." You can't tell me sites like <a href="http://www.baconandehs.blogspot.com/">Bacon and Eh's</a> and <a href="http://easydreamer.blogspot.com/">PCL LinkDump</a> are "not serious about blogging" and are "just another blogger" The main reason people move away from Blogger is a lack of functuality(because it is free) and people may want to do more with their site than Blogger lets them, not because its not been working very well lately.

We are going to have to agree to diagree about your quote
“It’s as though people pay more attention to you if you don’t use Blogger though — it’s a sign that you’re serious about blogging; that you’re not just another blogger; somebody to pay a bit more attention to.”

You can’t tell me sites like Bacon and Eh’s and PCL LinkDump are “not serious about blogging” and are “just another blogger”

]]> By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-1921 doctorvee Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:57:32 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-death-of-blogger/#comment-1921 I do not see how I am being snobby about Blogspot. I never said that I disliked Blogspot blogs just because they use Blogger. Take a look at the top ten percent blogroll - seven of them use Blogspot addresses, another one still uses Blogspot hosting. A few months ago, eleven of them used Blogger, including New Links. I don't dislike Blogspot blogs. But obviously people are moving away from it, and I don't think downtime is the only reason. It's obviously the major reason. But it is surely also true that somebody who goes out of their way to buy webspace and a domain name and grapple with weblog software for a bit probably, <em>in general</em>, will attract a bit more attention than just another Blogspot blogger? I do not see how I am being snobby about Blogspot. I never said that I disliked Blogspot blogs just because they use Blogger. Take a look at the top ten percent blogroll – seven of them use Blogspot addresses, another one still uses Blogspot hosting. A few months ago, eleven of them used Blogger, including New Links.

I don’t dislike Blogspot blogs. But obviously people are moving away from it, and I don’t think downtime is the only reason. It’s obviously the major reason. But it is surely also true that somebody who goes out of their way to buy webspace and a domain name and grapple with weblog software for a bit probably, in general, will attract a bit more attention than just another Blogspot blogger?

]]> By: ILuvNUFC http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-1920 ILuvNUFC Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:35:51 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-death-of-blogger/#comment-1920 Still sounds like snobbery. There has never been a problem with people seeing your page in Blogger the problems have been in commenting and posting. Any half-decent blogger's stats should rise slowly anyway, regardless of what they publish, as more people find out about you. Still sounds like snobbery.

There has never been a problem with people seeing your page in Blogger the problems have been in commenting and posting. Any half-decent blogger’s stats should rise slowly anyway, regardless of what they publish, as more people find out about you.

]]> By: doctorvee http://doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-end-of-blogger/comment-page-1/#comment-1919 doctorvee Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:30:39 +0000 http://www.doctorvee.co.uk/2005/03/26/the-death-of-blogger/#comment-1919 That's probably because you blog more interesting stuff than me though. I didn't suddenly become a better blogger in December; I don't think the sudden surge in visits is a coincidence. That’s probably because you blog more interesting stuff than me though. I didn’t suddenly become a better blogger in December; I don’t think the sudden surge in visits is a coincidence.

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