Blogger is now officially available in two different versions - Old Blogger & New Blogger. While a majority of old blogspot blogs have migrated to the new Blogger, there are loads of bloggers still waiting for the Google invite that would allow them to shift from the old to the new version of Blogger.
Well, it turns out that Google has decided to postpone shifting of large blogs with thousands of posts to the new Blogger for some time.
Here's an official answer from the Blogger FAQ spotted by Improbulus and Impudent:
Why can't I switch to the new version of Blogger?
..if you have a very large blog (more than a couple thousand posts + comments), you'll need to hold off for a bit.
And that could also be the reason why DI is still on the old Blogger. The wait just got longer.
PS: Despite all the migration issues, it is still a one-way process. Once you have moved from old blogger to new blogger, you cannot reverse the path. There's absolutely no way to return to Classic Blogger from the New Blogger.
Update: Ionut Chitu shares a simple hack to switch from Old blogger to new blogger even without an invite. Here's how:
Sign out of Blogger and click this URL blogger.com/migrate-login.g - type in your old blogger credentials and then link them a Google Account.
If you don't sign-out completely before clickly the above URL, you'll see an error saying "Unfortunately, we cannot switch your Blogger account at this time, because one or more of your blogs cannot be moved."
Related: Google Eric Case on Blogger Future
Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/01/google-holds-off-migration-of-large.html
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
PS: Despite all the migration issues, it is still a one-way process. Once you have moved from old blogger to new blogger, you cannot reverse the path. There's absolutely no way to return to Classic Blogger from the New Blogger.
Hows that ? I keep switching one of my new blogs from classic template to the new layout based and so forth.
Written on 2/1/07 5:27 PM
Don't mean templates here.
The old blogger is sometimes referred as the classic blogger as well.
Written on 2/1/07 5:35 PM
Yeah...same reason for me also to be stuck in the old blogger.
But explored the beta blogger and did not find three column templates :-(
We non-techies need that :-)
Written on 2/1/07 5:36 PM
There's no connection between having a big blog and not getting an invitation.
If I sign out of Blogger, I get a big "Switch now" button on the homepage. It's not there everyday, but it sends you to http://www.blogger.com/migrate-login.g .
So don't wait for any invitation, just sign out of Blogger from time to time and look for the "Switch now" button.
Written on 2/1/07 6:26 PM
I was just wondering if Invite is required for Migration. In the blogger home page it has a button switch now that points to the URI indicated by Alex. So I guess the migration can be done for all type of blogs with the button.
But in new blogger too we can use classic templates..
Written on 2/1/07 9:48 PM
"there's absolutely no way to return to Classic Blogger from the New Blogger."
Yes, one can switch to old classic template easily & only that matters. So, it shouldn't be presented as a problem that we can't switch to old blogger as new blogger only offers new features & you are free not to use them.
But one interesting thing one will notice after migrating is that the Title & date change won't affect the url of the post which is great.
Written on 3/1/07 10:21 AM
I've already commented before that-
Have you noted that all official blogs of Google services are still in old mode!
What does this mean? Even they don't rely on it fully or what?
After creating my blog on blogspot, sometimes I think that I've done wrong.. I should have gone to wordpress... nice templates, cool yet powerful features.
Can you please compare in details between wordpress and new blogger in your forthcoming posts?
Thanks and regards,
Written on 4/1/07 12:49 PM
Question:
Google will force everybody to switch to the new blogger ?
I ask this because I really don't want to switch :|
Written on 5/1/07 4:00 AM
Hi Amit, thanks for the mention and the link.
In answer to Florin, I am pretty sure we will all have to switch eventually, like it or not...
Written on 5/1/07 10:05 PM
The part that has me spitting nails is that they've changed the behavior of BlogThis! If you're logged into Gmail (I always am) it assumes you want the new blogger -- there's no option to use the old blogger). The only workaround is to use two browsers, one for regular work and one for BlogThis!
I can't migrate (big blog), so this really pains me. Stupid.
Written on 8/1/07 6:43 AM