Freekstorm VFX Blog

About a week ago we received a notification from Blogger that they will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26th of this year. They blamed the decision on "too many engineering resources" required to support FTP sites and said "We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for some users."

Now there's the understatement of the year!

For most folks who use Blogger, this will not affect them at all. Unfortunately for our little Freekstorm blog, we host our blog on our own servers, but we use the freely-available Blogger code for the blog publishing part, which allows anyone with a Blogger account to leave comments if they wish (not that we're exactly snowed under with them, mind you - in fact if we actually do get a rare and precious comment then it's a real "break out the bubbly" moment!) Anyway, the idea is that not only can we remain part of the thriving Blogger community, but by publishing the blog via FTP this means that all our precious artwork, videos and tutorials are kept on our own servers, not Google's. Plus we can design our own groovy blog graphics, instead of Blogger's grotty standard templates.

Basically Google doesn't have any control over what we can publish or how we publish it. We really like it that way. And I quote our resident VFX artiste: "Hell will freeze over before I host our blog on Google servers. No ruddy way! I'd rather close our blog first!"

So we have until 26th March to decide what to do.

Perhaps it's time to put our resident computer geek to work on designing our own blogging code?

(Poor chap! As if he doesn't have enough to do already!)

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