The Gaming Diary Moveathon

The Gaming Diary Moveathon

Blogger is dead, long live WordPress!

You see, Blogger announced recently that they were going to ditch FTP support for Blogger users. Since my Gaming Diary uses Blogger’s FTP features, and always has, this caused me a problem.

My options were:

  • Migrate to a Blogger subdomain (urgh)
  • Create a lofi-gaming.org.uk subdomain and direct that to my Blogger-hosted diary (not that bad an issue, but my URL would change)
  • Move away from Blogger entirely (to WordPress, by preference)
  • Close the diary entirely
  • Merge the diary with this blog
  • Wee on some cakes and send them to Blogger with a note saying “Hey you guys!!! You suck! Have some cakes!!”
  • Blast off and nuke the site from orbit

Since I’d been considering the third of these options, I decided upon that. And did. And now it’s done.

The new, migrated, diary is still at the old address of https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary but the RSS feed URL has changed to https://lofi-gaming.org.uk/diary/feed/so you’ll need to update that if you subscribe (and if you don’t why don’t you?!).

Maybe one day I’ll tell you all the story of how the migration involved headaches with MySQL servers and folder structures and Blogger’s interference trying to overwrite the new WordPress install and css files going missing and Germany invading Poland and everything. Or perhaps I won’t. That would be very dull.

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