Since blogger is such a stable platform and hasn't seen much change feature wise for sometime now, why does one have to rewrite it if some framework that is uses has been deprecated.
Too many UI designers and not enough real work for them to do?
Seems to me there's far too much of that sort of thing going on in the software economy (not just UI designers!) -- far too much redeveloping existing wheels (and usually not for the better) and far too little actual advancement of the state of the art, far too little actual innovation.
Somebody wanted to get promoted and needed to show "impact". Count your blessings that they didn't decide to show impact by creating yet another google chat app.
At some point this sort of response to every post with "Google" in the title became akin to responding "First!!" on every post. That point was, frankly, something like a year ago.
I think you're talking about the second sentence in my post, when really that was just a joke. The main point was that it was probably done by someone looking to show an impact for promotion, which I don't think is a HN meme regarding google, like (n+1 chat apps, google eats your privacy, what will google deprecate next) are.
