UPDATE: Staying here until no longer able, WordPress and Substack will be back-up / alt sites

It looks like the work-around may be good for awhile. I'd really prefer not to leave my home of over 20 years, not to mention setting up 2 new sites.

Google *has* already abandoned Blogger and Blogspot -- no help center, impossible to reach anyone, they make changes whenever for no reason, and if they break it, you have to find a work-around or it's over. Even if you find one, they have turned from apathetic to vindictive against their own users. That's why I couldn't even leave comments after awhile -- some seething spiteful flunkie actually coded the "browser not supported" screen into the comment box itself. But I'll get to the gory details about that in a little bit.

Suffice it to say, I sense them ultimately giving Blogspot the same treatment that Yahoo gave GeoCities -- total demolition. Slightly better-case scenario, they leave up the domain but stop the writers from putting up any new posts or comments. Either way, there's zero chance they will migrate the blogs at Blogspot to some future site, as they have nothing to move them to, unlike when they killed Google Play Music and forced users into YouTube Music. They didn't even keep their attempt at social media, Google+, so why would they keep a format that is even less utilized, like blogs?

Just cuz I have a work-around doesn't mean it'll work forever, especially given how vindictive the Google-hive has become. Even if it works, they could shut down the entire domain. So, I'm setting up 2 separate sites just in case.

The WordPress one -- The Library of Akinokure -- will be mainly for collecting entire series that I've done here, especially those that have mainly been in the comments section, so search engines can find them. That gives me several years' worth to re-publish in more coherent form. I may even go back through the archives here for series that were already in standalone post form, and back them up there as well.

Right now, I'm working on the work I've done about Japanese / Japonic belonging to the Dene-Yeniseian family of languages. Full posts will go up over there, and I'll just leave a brief remark about it in the comments section here -- in case people don't want to read an entire 500-word discovery every time, but just get the gist.

I've more or less set up the layout, though I'll be tweaking it and maybe making a new header image, etc., but you can start perusing the Japonic-Dene-Yeniseian linguistic series there right now and going forward.

The Substack one -- just "akinokure", like here -- will take longer for me to figure out what to do with, since that allows both long-form posting and a micro-blogging comment feed, like I have here. But I don't want to cannibalize this main site by putting too much on Substack. I'm thinking of using it for pictures in the micro-blog feed. Brutalist mall du jour, vintage book du jour, thrift store find du jour, that kind of thing. I don't have the layout set up yet, other than making the landing page look like this blog, so there's not much to do there yet.

The point is, I'll keep to posting here as much as I can, for as long as I can, and if anything should interfere with that, or end that, you'll be able to tell. But now, you'll have 2 alt sites to check on, to see if in fact I'm moving over there for good. For the moment, and unless I specifically say so at the alt sites, they'll remain alt and Blogspot will stay main.

I don't like posting these content-free programming notes, but I really did just receive an intense signal from Google that Blogspot will receive even less support than merely being abandoned by them. So I've had to waste a bunch of time scrambling to find a work-around, and set up alt sites just in case.

I know the American military is about to commit suicide-by-cop with another failed war in the Middle East, but I've already said pretty much everything there is to say about that, specifically about Iran, so my next post here will go into greater detail about the cyber-bureaucracy that controls so much of our online existence, how surreal it is, how to minimize our exposure to its risks, and so on. Might as well get something productive and insightful out of this whole ordeal...

URGENT: Moving blog to Substack! Still using "akinokure"

 I can't explain in detail now, but Google's tech incompetence / malice had temporarily locked me out of the Blogger dashboard and comments section. That's why I've been MIA here for a week. Fortunately I found a work-around, but I don't know how long that will last. It was nothing ideological or anything like that, purely technical, but it was insanely malicious, and I no longer have trust in Google to be a reliable guardian and steward of the Blogger / Blogspot platform.

So I am moving all blogging activities over to Substack -- same name as here, "akinokure":

https://akinokure.substack.com

I will do long-form blogging there, and they have a built-in micro-blogging feed called "Notes", which will replace my blogging in the comments section here.

I will also try to do long-term back-up of this blog at WordPress, "The Library of Akinokure":

https://libraryofakinokure.wordpress.com

That will not involve micro-blogging, or backing up random comments and observations -- the stuff that's really worth preserving. Possibly migrating the whole thing from here, over there, or maybe just a "greatest hits" compilation. We'll see.

These are all still somewhat up-in-the-air, but I have to leave this final message while I can still use this work-around. The pace will be the same over there as it has been here, depending on how inspired I am du jour.

But, it will be the same cliff-dwelling sage, the same location atop the Cliffs of Wisdom -- you'll just be taking an alternate route up the mountain. The Substack route, rather than the Blogspot route. It will still be me, and my charmingly eclectic ever-shifting range of topics! I will await you at the end of the Substack route up the mountain! ^_^