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Moving away from Blogger/Blogspot for blogging



Hello everyone,
in recent years I didn't have time to actually blog and the reason was not only the lack of time.
The real reason was that personal blogs are no longer this viable as ones were. In the current time, most people read medium or ghost or very development-aligned websites to get their content.

In the past years when this blog was created, dzone.com was actually a blog aggregator, where you put your blog and people can vote for it, in a way similar to Reddit. 
It was AWESOME having a front and back page and the blog links having a lot of votes sometimes made it to the front page. There was RSS for both pages and it was so so awesome and Javalobby was a forum back then. I don't know how these guys fcked up that much but shame. 

Anyway, all is over ... dzone is completely different, javalobby doesn't exist and to have a personal blog and just rely only on your Twitter or Reddit presence is just too much work for a developer, after all we have to also develop... not promote ourselves all the time. 

So because of the reasons above I am archiving my blog.

I might post sometimes to http://dev.to which I believe is the best medium alternative for developers blogging right now, it is basically Twitter and Reddit a like and you can follow me there at https://dev.to/gochev .


Also, my twitter is https://twitter.com/gochev and my LinkedIn is https://linkedin.com/in/gochev we can keep in touch with me there as well.



So long and thanks for all the fish!


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