Tuesday, March 23, 2010

attention all computer/blogger savvy friends

***UPDATE*** My friend Melissa said we were not running off of an FTP.  You can see her comments in my comments section and refers to a link for more info.



So i have been hearing through the grapevine that blogger is shutting down the blogs that run off of FTP. Whatever that means... In my dashboard under "Blogger Buzz" it says that this will occur March 26!  Then I found somewhere that said it was extended until May 1st.  Does anyone know what this means??? I have been trying to read up on it, but don't understand a lot of what they are saying in computer terms. I have considered switching to Wordpress or getting a custom domain through blogger(which I believe is what they are suggesting), but I'm unsure of how all of that works.  Do any of you know anything about this or am I stressing out for nothing?

3 comments:

melissa said...

Hmmm...interesting. I haven't heard that. I'll look around and see if I can figure it out.

melissa said...

Okay, I figured it out. I was pretty sure we didn't use FTP, but wanted to find out for sure :)

We're safe.

From this link:

http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/2010/02/whos-affected.html


*If your blog URL ends in "blogspot.com", you are not affected
*If you don't see "You're publishing via FTP" (or "You're publishing via S/FTP") when you go to "Settings | Publishing", you are not affected

Meant to be a mom said...

I haven't heard anything about this but I would be heartbroken if my blog suddenly disappeared.

Let us know if you hear more of what this is.