Saturday, August 5, 2023

Planning a transition from Blogger to Posthaven

Blogger is just looking super crusty these days, and I think I'll have better enthusiasm for writing if I'm writing on Posthaven. The problem is that there currently exists no solution for the migration. The manager of Posthaven has said they are too busy to work on a migration tool from RSS at the moment. So it may be in order for us to do a migration using some Python automation script. I'd like to use ChatGPT and the newest LLM coding tools to see if it makes it easy to write. The thing, too, is that I'd like to preserve a lot of the images, comments, and html embeds we have from this space on Blogger, since it makes sense to preserve things for posterity because this is mostly a posterity blog. So it might be required to have our bot/script click buttons to recreate the comments in the comment sections of the blog posts, or at least concatenate the comments to the bottom of those posts to preserve them. 

Oh yeah, the other benefit of Posthaven is that I'll be able to have more blog posts with images, since in Blogger the image upload size limit is so lame and blurry it's not even usable. And I think having some images is nice and adds to the momento effect, or even allows me to upload some photos from life again, and depict physical creative works.

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