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You can, however, have your own domain (blog.example.com) on medium. It would be a pain to migrate all that content, but at least you could preserve the links with some work.

That said, I think that totally owning your location online is totally worth it.

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New custom domains on Medium are gone as of like 3 weeks ago.

https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005579728-Custo...

Whoa. Didn't see that. That's another compelling reason to own your content on your domain. Then it doesn't matter what other platforms do (as much).

I'm going through this right now - all my old content is on blogspot.com, and I want to move to my current blog at mydomain.com/blog. I'm sure there's a way not to move all these article URLs by hand, but then I have to go and make sure all the inline images come through as well, which were uploaded to blogspot directly.

I mean, I was just looking for a quick solution in college so I can't blame myself, but I do want to run back to 18 year old me and kick my heels a bit for creating such a big chunk of technical debt I doubt I'll ever actually fix.

You can add a third party domain to BlogSpot. It isn't hard at all.

That may not get the result you personally want, but it is completely do-able.

What system do you want to move it to?

Right now I'm using wordpress installed on a bluehost server, which I uh... have a google domain... pointing to? I'm using this as an opportunity to learn about all this so I have trouble speaking intelligently about it.

It's http://blog.calebjay.com/ - I forgot I actually have the blog set as a subdomain, not an endpoint. It's been a couple months since I've done anything with it... man, it even still has the bluehost default favicon X(

Wordpress has import plugins for a lot of stuff, I bet there is a blogspot importer out there that can suck all content + comments to your WP instance.

Hire some folks from fiverr.

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