Comments on: Dear Google

By: from LA to El Dorado

from LA to El Dorado — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:10:07 +0000

I am not alone.

This more knowledgeable poster asks Google who apparently purchased Blogger/blogspot what their objectives might be.

By: Ralph

Ralph — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:01:00 +0000

I am at the breaking point with blogspot. Whatever the reasons, it is too much trouble to tolerate.

By: Stephen W. Stanton

Stephen W. Stanton — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:42:45 +0000

So it’s not just my imagination. Dang. That’s actually bad news.

Blogger has frustrated me time and again. I’ve grown increasingly frustrated, as you can see from the posts that did manage to get through:

http://stephenwstanton.blogspot.com/2004/09/ing-blogger-software.html

http://stephenwstanton.blogspot.com/2004/10/wtf_25.html

http://stephenwstanton.blogspot.com/2004/09/blogger-bites-hot-dogs.html

http://stephenwstanton.blogspot.com/2005/02/blogger-sucks-my-ass.html

I was hoping that Blogger would let me blog casually… I would just post without a second thought. I thought it would work as reliably as Gmail or the comment threads on established sites.

Wrong. Now, I type out my entries in MS Word,
I paste them into the blogger interface,
I wait for it to upload (hopefully),
I check my main page,
I go back and make corrections due to the inexplicable liberties Blogger took with my work (e.g. missing paragraphs.)

Odd. Frustrating. But I’m not about to take days off of work to become a web wiz.

By: michael

michael — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:41:32 +0000

I’ve had blogger problems, also. From the best that I can tell, they’re offering free blogs so that eventually people will place AdSense on them, or at least the very few that will acquire substantial hits. I’m hoping they don’t go for a “for pay” system, but if they do, I’d pay for it, but I need to see more features and less downtime.

By: chel

chel — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 21:36:32 +0000

Try WordPress. It rocks! I find it way better than MT or Typepad.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:45:00 +0000

Chicagoboyz gave up on Blogger almost two years ago and has never looked back. Switching is a pain, but once you get it over with your life will be easier.

By: j.scott barnard

j.scott barnard — Wed, 30 Mar 2005 17:34:44 +0000

I have had loads of trouble with Blogger over the last couple of weeks. They seem to have fixed their servers. I would appreciate a little more honesty on their “blogger status” page. Perhaps realistic expectations of the length of outages rather than promises they can’t keep. I suspect I’m going to have to move. I hate to do it, but yesterday and today have been very trying. I lost a post, and nothing pisses me off more than that.

Blogger comments are a joke. They’re cumbersome & slow. And automatically filter out non-blogger id comments unless you set anonymous. Haloscan is much better.