Rant on Google and another reason why they just plain suck in laymans terms

Hail Google

Google has been like a blessing in so many ways - however not to be ungrateful but they have done some stuff that just plain sucks lately. Today (to pick out a point in time), they have removed FTP access to blogger articles (in case you didnt know Goog realized Blogger had a big audience and bought them up some time ago).

This may not be that big of a deal - but it was my "door out" - my plan was to FTP copy the blog to a blog on our new website when its done.

Blogger just plain sucks for an editor - adding images and other content is like jumping through the fiery hoops at the circus - if you dont do it right, just forget about it. It does not support linked video like so many other blog system do so simply. Formatting is kind of "at their mercy", you have a real hard time making paragraphs flow in a way that is easy to read.

If you try to edit in raw html (they think they are being so accommodating by giving you this option), blogger will reformat your html to best screw it up for your viewers.

I guess I missed the boat on the announcement (as a blogger customer you would think they would email me directly), last week they completely removed the FTP option from the control panel. There is a nifty export feature - oh so cool - it exports your blog to an xml file - doh! wheres all my pictures - oh, well those are conveniently left linked to the blogger image links in the xml file. How about all the links - well we ruined any links you put in your articles by not spacing them correctly in the xml file.

Their excuse was that FTP just took up too many management resources they just realized this after over 10 years of Blogging and 10+ million users - isnt this a design flaw you would notice in the first 2-3 years / 1 million subscribers?

This doesnt even get into their buyout of Gizmo5 which is burning me at the moment.