I can recommend WordPress. Yes I know my main blog is hosted on Blogger... I am also lazy. ;-) If you do move to WordPress (and not something else like MovableType, etc.), I found a neat guide to keeping your permalinks: http://friendfeed.com/e... - dgw

It took me a while too, but with a one-click install of wordpress (that many hosting providers provide), or wordpress.com, the import process is pretty amazing. Posts and comments come over with ease. - Ryan W

Just tonight I was talking with a friend how on earth's it's possible that after all these years, Google didn't manage to give Blogger a usable commenting feature. Anybody know? - Philipp Lenssen

I've used Blogger since January of '07... and it is "okay". Who has a strong solution for migrating to WP and keeping all comments? - Louis Gray

@Philipp Lenssen: I can guess. It's probably because they're spending their development time adding (still-incomplete) OpenID support and redesigning the "Add a Page Element" dialog (which is now "Add a Gadget" in Draft). - dgw

@Louis Gray: WordPress can import all your posts and comments for you. - dgw

Voyager, but isn't usable comments the feature requested for much longer than OpenID (even *preceding* the invention of OpenID), and shouldn't they tackle first things first? - Philipp Lenssen

WP's ease of install/import is what hooks ya. Don't do it unless you want to be addicted :) "The famous 5-minute installation" - Bwana ☠

I set up my aunt's blog with wordpress. I love the community around it and found it fun trying out different plug-ins, even though I'm totally a consumer when it comes to technology. I appreciate the good stuff, but I don't want to tinker under the hood very much (like all ya'll do). - Ginger Makela Riker

@LouisGray: Yes, it imported everything, including comments for me without any hassle. - Yuvi

Hate is a strong word. Now, let's say you've been using it for 8 years and you publish via FTP and it's 26MB of files every time - then potentially *hate* is a word that might come to mind. Then again love and hate are very close. - Jason Shellen

@Philipp: One would think, but Google doesn't always seem to work that way. - dgw

Laziness is what keeps Microsoft in huge profits!!! - Robert Scoble

@Robert Scoble: lol! :D I'll drink to that. (Well, dip at any rate; I'm eating vindaloo.) - dgw

I actually like a few things about Blogger, but cannot stand the comment system that forces users to another page to leave one. They need to get rid of that. - MG Siegler

@MG Siegler: I have a feeling the horrible comment system is part of why I don't get very many comments. (Another factor would be the low traffic I get, of course. ;-) - dgw

I'm still there (Blogger). It was a serious pain to edit the template and there's more I'd like to do. Not lazy, no time. The question is why hasn't Google added Wordpress-like features to Blogger? They could probably own a lot more blogs. Even though it's free and easy, I guess they've made a calculated decision to leave this space to Wordpress? Matt Cutts still uses it. Just seems weird. - Charlie Anzman

@Charlie: Matt uses what? Blogger or WordPress? If I remember correctly, he has a comment form on the post page, which I haven't been able to do on my site. I think that if Google would introduce on-page comment forms their comment system would be golden. - dgw

@Voyagerfan5761 Matt uses Wordpress (very generic) www.mattcutts.com/blog. Google would need to do more. Multiple pages, etc. but Blogger works for me .... for now. - Charlie Anzman

@charlie great point - never thought about it, but Google SHOULD up their offerings. I uses blogger for about a week, but felt it was too limiting. - shaun mclane

Anything specific, Paul? - Eric Case

Hurry up and get your gripe list together. You have just over ten days for Case to get on it. :) - Christopher Sacca

I am reasonably fond of ExpressionEngine, which I use for my blog at http://www.bladam.com. I haven't updated the software in ages and I haven't improved the UI in ages either (yes, ouch), but hey, it still works :) - Adam Lasnik

Sorry Jason and Eric :) I was just frustrated because blogger is so slow, and then for some reason it did two blank posts (title only) while I was writing my post. I had to go delete them from blogger and FF. As for alternatives, I blog too rarely to justify much investigation, and I'm unwilling to use anything that isn't a hosted product -- the idea of installing security updates seems crazy to me. Maybe I'll just write my own blog software sometime -- with Disqus handling comments, it should be very easy. - Paul Buchheit

Needless to say, I am a very happy TypePad user :) - David Hornik

Well Paul, there's always WordPress.com if you want to change over from Blogger. I'd just be worried about keeping Google/MSN/Yahoo!/etc. presence through a domain name change. - dgw

Did anyone (other than @Sacca) realize that this comment took less than 3 hours to make it to Eric Case (Blogger). This IS the difference with Friendfeed! - Charlie Anzman

Its quite ironic but Windows live writer takes out the pain of blogger. I guess you need login in on blogger only when you need to post some images etc - Ketan Khairnar

Try Tumblr!!! - Andrew Baron

dude, switch to wordpress. it's awesome. but don't tell my friends who work at SA or on the Blogger product. I self-host on WP and have been happy. If a BD guy can manage it himself, anyone on this thread can make it work. I also recommend blogging straight from Flock - it works great and is painless. - Charles Hudson

Let me know if you want to try out TypePad. Lots of happy people. - David Recordon

outsource the switch. some indian will deal with the migration hassles and everything for you for $1.10 an hour. if all goes well, you can then submit your story to "The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss" - Allan Hough

@Steven: Thanks for the link. I know I've seen a procedure to do that before, keeping permalinks and everything. Actually I'd rather move to "classic" WordPress permalinks (without .html$), so I might have to do some Apache rewrites to make that work. Regrets? Starting on BlogSpot, like everyone else says. - dgw

One more thing: If you're lazy, then most of us are comatose. - Louis Gray

Hey Paul, I read your frustration with using the Blogger platform for your blog and would like to extend an invitation to come blog at TypePad. If you shoot me your username and password for Blogger, I can import your blog into a beta version on TypePad for you to take a look at (this won’t affect your current setup at all – just give you an example of how your blog could look in TypePad). Let me know if you’re interested! awibbels at sixapart dot com - Andy Wibbels

just put wordpress on your FF server.. blogger is horrific as a blogging tool. - Rodney Rumford