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...
February 19, 2026
UPDATE: Staying here until no longer able, WordPress and Substack will be back-up / alt sites
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To keep Nonstop Nihongo New Year going here, I'll summarize the findings that were posted in full at WordPress during my brief hiatus here.
ReplyDeleteJaponic "horn" has Dene-Yeniseian cognates meaning "bone".
Japonic "blood" has Na-Dene cognates meaning "heart". After "kokoro" shifted meaning from "mind" to "heart", this displaced the older Japonic word for "heart", which then came to refer to "blood" instead.
Japonic "juice, sap, soup" is cognate with Dene-Yeniseian words for "blood". This is yet a further stage in the semantic shift chain reaction: "mind" -> "heart" -> "blood" -> "juice, sap, fluid vital essence other than blood".
A doublet of Japonic "juice, sap, soup" was "milk", which then shifted to mean "white".
Japonic "liver" has cognates in Dene-Yeniseian, leading to a new-and-improved reconstruction of the shared ancestor of them all, with the crucial help of the Japonic form.
Japonic "to smell, scent" has Na-Dene cognates meaning "to feel, to sense", which probably referred specifically to the sense of smell.
No conspiracy from techtards will ever stop my exploration and discovery of the Paleosiberian roots of the Na-Dene, Yeniseian, and Japonic super-family of languages! ^_^
Man, setting up 2 sites showed me how bland and bleak online is compelled to look in 2026, really beginning during the puritanical anorexic Millennial woketard heritage-hating iconoclasm of the 2010s. They have literally banned all the layout formats from the good ol' days, and if you want something real, you'll have to host it yourself (not free hosting at the well-known domain), and pay through the nose for the ability to de-bland-ify your site.
ReplyDeleteThat's a topic for another post, with lots of pictures. But suffice it to say, it was a deliberate orchestrated crusade, part of the broader sensory-deprivation crusade of the "design" world during the 2010s, but lasting through today by inertia, and likely to never go away, since no new styles can ever be created -- let alone catch on as a broad phenomenon -- during the ungluing of cohesion, and the social auto-immune disease, that accompanies imperial collapse.
It's not just the lack of colors, or the "flat design" with no line art or shading, and nothing that looks like hand-drawn illustration. The main thing is the yawning expanse of dead-space, meant to deprive the senses of anything whatsoever.
So *that's* why you guys keep making the trek up here -- it must be such an exhilarating rush to load the page and immediately feast your eyes on the summary headline, and FIVE (count 'em, FIVE) full lines of text, without even having to scroll down one millimeter!
You're not immediately anesthetized by a yawning void with a few generic words and a meaningless photograph that never ever changes.
Trust me, I know from browsing Twitter -- that is the most soul-deadening experience in the cyberspace. And when you leave up a pinned post -- especially if it has the obligatory big-ass image -- that's even further I have to page-down just to see what the hell you have to say du jour. I don't need to be confined to a digital waiting room every single time I load your page -- I already know who you are, I want to see what's new.
It's not a "magazine layout" -- holy shit, the cope! No magazines ever looked like that in the glory days of print publishing. It looks exactly like what it is -- "puritanical anorexic Millennial 2010s website", not a magazine, LOL.
It took me forever to find a WordPress layout that was useful, and it's only barely content-oriented, still mostly just the header image -- but it at least shows the headline of a post, plus a row of honest-to-goodness icons. Nothing has icons anymore -- visual aids that tell you what the associated item does. Everything is just label label label, or cryptic visual, often hidden / condensed into menus within menus within menus.
I really had to do a double-take to make sure I wasn't hallucinating -- icons! Quite the blast from the past...
But I only found out about that layout from a very old forum post at WordPress -- there's no summary page for it at WordPress' collection of layouts. If you search for it in the dashboard, you'll find it, and you can still use it -- unlike most of the other good ones, which have been banned ("retired"). But they really want to keep this one hush-hush, lest any rogue writer attempt to thwart the puritanical anorexic Millennial perpetual-2010s yawning void sensory deprivation chamber look-and-feel of all of online.
Leave it to me to find it! ^_^
I really want to re-do the header image, and make it more reminiscient of Microsoft Encarta from Windows 95, or something with that overall feel. I like the one I have here, in this context -- it really screams CYBERSPACE. But for an online library, something still computer-age and space-age, but more learned somehow -- yet still whimsical and charming, like Encarta. They really had it all figured out back in the good ol' days... ^_^