tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17087850.post116581694701105918..comments2023-10-31T06:50:41.697-04:00Comments on Factor: a practical stack language: Blogger sucksSlava Pestovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02768382790667979877noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17087850.post-1166899799664849202006-12-23T13:49:00.000-05:002006-12-23T13:49:00.000-05:00Yes, it sucks. When I deleted my old blog, somebod...Yes, it sucks. When I deleted my old blog, somebody else took it over to spam immediately as many other deleted blogs. Google did nothing to stop that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17087850.post-1166522074293556352006-12-19T04:54:00.000-05:002006-12-19T04:54:00.000-05:00Blogger was a Google acquisition, probably acquire...Blogger was a Google acquisition, probably acquired for userbase. I think they'll eventually fix it.<BR/><BR/>I would say that Google offers lots of valuable stuff beyond search and maps, such as Groups and Mail. Google has consistently improved Groups since the DejaNews acquisition, and the UI of Mail/Groups I think is far better than the traditional folder/tree paradigm most reader applications use.<BR/><BR/>Email folders are an incredibly limited way of organizing mail, especially conservations, and tagging is a nature fit. The streamlined and simplified Google mail UI, which refrained from the usage "AJAX Overload" technique of trying to make a Outlook/Thunderbird/Eudora clone via Javascript (e.g. Yahoo Mail) I think is very nice, and I wish desktop mail readers like Thunderbird adopted it.<BR/><BR/>The problem with most Blog software is the lack of macros/metaprogramming. Naturally, as one blogs more and more, especially on common subjects, one wants reusable markup to do things like show sample code, quote other blogs, markup math, etc. And while some blog software has builtin stuff (like [code]), it would be nice if they offered an extensible language for user definition of macros. Many Wikis already allow user defined macros for example.<BR/><BR/>Alas, most blogs only leave you with CSS and HTML.Ray Cromwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05070235196940096193noreply@blogger.com