Google discontinuing FTP support for Blogger blogs
Love it or hate it, Blogger was the tool that really brought blogging into the mainstream. Once upon a time, the only way to have your blog hosted on your own domain was to use Blogger as the content management system, but then have it use FTP to push HTML pages to your web host.
Fast forward to 2010, and it turns out that only half of one percent of Blogger's users are using Blogger's FTP upload ...
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