It's hard to tell for how long +Google+ will stay relevant and be used.
I also found that indexing of posts being terrible overall.
A self-hosted blog however, you know it will last!
It's possible to find its content in a search engine.
It only costs a little money per year for the domain name but that's it.
Maybe because of the social media aspects and because I like my audience (you) I'm much more inclined to write things here than on a +WordPress site or app.
On +Google+ I just write, publish and.. done! It's that quick and easy. And later I re-read and correct if needed, instead of proofreading too much like I do otherwise.
Auto-importing these posts (when tagged with #supercurioBlog ) might be what I need to combine spontaneity and sustainability.
+François Simond yea G+ def needs some additional capabilities in terms of being able to tag and search old posts. Either that or I just suck at search.
+Vik Arya couldn't agree more!
I don't even know how many minutes I had to press the page end button and wait for the older posts to lazy-load.
Maybe it's even by design on +Google+ so that people don't worry too much about what they wrote in the past, because it's so hard to find it again.
Then go. Leave G+. It keeps growing every month, but if your fan base and users are primarily non-technical twitter/facebook types, go where you users are. Look at those follower totals. Do you have the least followers here?
+Scott Wilson why would I leave?
I'm under the impression you read only the first lines of the post.
+François Simond it's really interesting to see people reference old posts because I aways wonder how long it took for them to hunt for it. Like Mike elgan for example.
+François Simond Good impression! I did only read the first bit. Let me do a better job reading. brb.
Ok….. How about this..
Transition from WordPress, which is a security nightmare waiting to happen anyway, to Blogger. Then you can set your posts to automatically post here (like I do) and link to them like you would a wordpress post. It's all kinds of lazy. All I use is blogger with a custom URL.
+Scott Wilson what this does is the reverse operation actually.
I blog on +Google+ as usual (website or mobile app), and all that's needed for a post that turns out to be worthwhile for some reason is for me to add the #supercurioBlog tag in the end (or later).
This way it allows to select some instead of mirroring everything.
I prefer the freedom and independence of self-hosting also. +WordPress with automatic updates should be fine – there's no perfect solution tho 😉
It's a pragmatic approach because I can only observe that I write on Google+ and pretty much don't in a +WordPress, this way I can combine the strength of both 😎
+Vik Arya maybe Mike uses a third party tool based on the API which implements fulltext search on a whole profile.
It's something that would be quite easy to write, it probably exists already.
I'm a joomla fan myself and use easyblog which can post to g+ Facebook twitter at the same time. Can be composed on desktop or mobile or even email which it creates the post from but that suits my needs maybe diff to others
I'm a "not having to care" fan. What I like about Blogger is while my previous WordPress blog hosted on burst got DDoS'd into the ground on four separate occasions, nobody is going to DDoS blogger. Won't happen. And I don't have to worry about security updates. And two-factor auth was stupid easy. So it's secure, cheap (free), robust, and reliable.
Yeah, safe until blogger.com shuts down, because Google has no interest anymore…
+Marco D. Rassau Oh no, the free thing I don't pay for is going away. I'll have to get something else. Bummer. Oh well, I guess I'll just enjoy the awesomeness I'm not paying for now and not be some weird hateful dick.
+Scott Wilson yeah good points +Blogger has stuff like two factor, resilience to dDoS, and also HTTPs.
It reminds me to give a try to free HTTPs certificates, and enable +CloudFlare & static HTML caching.
+Marco D. Rassau in case +Google stops +Blogger, +Scott Wilson can migrate his blog to another platform and should be able to preserve the URLs fairly easily as they're structure is simple and it's on his own sub domain.
You're right, I just wanted to mention one advantage of an own server: Independence 🙂
To be fair, I do this crap all day. Joomla, Worldpress, TONS of Drupal. Sitecore. I don't want to do it when I get home. But I can in my sleep.