Disqus & Profy: Please Finish Releasing Me From Blogger Jail!

As I have discussed previously, My blog is hosted on Blogger, Google's blogging platform, and I really want the freedom to easily move my blog from Blogger to another platform such as WordPress. Though it is possible right now, it is not easy. And in any case it is not possible to bring your comments with you.

In my previous article on this, I discussed the fact that what I really wanted was for third parties, namely Disqus and Profy, to support importing comments and blog posts, as they are both platform agnostic (Disqus for comments and Profy for blog posts). As it stands, they both do a good job of allowing content to be managed outside a blogging platform but to be published on any of them. But neither Disqus and Profy support importing so you end up in some ways abandoning you old content, at least from a portability perspective. At the time that I originally wrote about this, I implored both of them to support importing.

A few days ago an important piece of the puzzle came together.  Blogger just released the ability to export not just my blog, but my blog comments in XML form. This should make it extremely easy for Disqus and Profy to support importing into their platforms.

And so I have two things to say.

First, thank you Google. Thank you for releasing me. You could have made this hard. You could have clung to me proclaiming something about having to pry me from your cold dead hands. But instead, you offer a gentlemanly escape route, and it is, indeed, appreciated.

And second, and most importantly, a personal plea to Daniel from Disqus, Svetlana from Profy. Please guys, please go ahead and support Blogger imports! It should be easy now, right? I'll be your best friend... please don't make me beg!