There are about a thousand reasons I hate Blogger right now. And, yes, as the title indicates, I realize it’s free, and it’s user-friendly, and I shouldn’t expect much from the folks that allow me to waste vast amounts of time writing vast amounts of nothing. And I realize that I’ve bitched about these folks one too many times for you guys to even care, but…
Gah! They piss me off. What’s the deal, anyway? Why does the site crash every freaking Monday morning? Site traffic? Uh, yeah. You’re G*ogle, people. You are the kings of site traffic, aren’t you? You didn’t amass more money than G*d by running everything over dial-up, did you?
See, the thing is, I don’t have a lot of time to devote to this business. But when I do, and when I have written a post that I am really, really interested in hearing my readers’ responses to, or when I have written several witty, perfectly-worded comments to other blogs, I’d, well, you know, kind of like the comment feature to work. I’d like to respond to comments at my own site from time to time. Monday? Blogger ate three different comments of mine. (Now come Thursday, they may all show back up and make me look like the biggest lame-o loser of all time.)
Please don’t lecture me about switching. I am too cheap to pay for web-hosting. I don’t have the technical savvy to develop my own site. If it weren’t for the magical, marvelous Zoot, I wouldn’t have my cool, groovy, retro page design. So in the worst, most horrible tagline I will ever author and will live to regret saying, I’d rather bitch than switch.
I hope that those of you that tried (or will try) to post comments will please come back. I really, truly want to hear from you.
But I just got a note from Blogger, and the principal wants to see me. Oops.
July 25, 2006 at 11:59 am
I usually don’t have problems, but every once in a while, i do. Mostly it’s word verification that is my nemesis. i know I have it too.. but jeez! I wish they wouldn’t put such close letters together!
July 25, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Julianna, I could do a whole post about word verification. [Insert collective groan from my readers here.] By the time I’ve figured out it’s two ‘v’s instead of a ‘w’, it’s too late and I get a new one.
July 25, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Well, if it’s any consolation, there are times when Typepad eats posts or won’t let people comment–and it’s not even free! When I’m feeling particularly proactive I’ll write up my post in Typepad (to preserve the formatting) then copy and paste into a word document just as a safety precaution and THEN post. That way if the post is eaten I’ll have a backup and don’t have to completely rewrite everything. Of course, typically when I do copy and paste everything posts perfectly and it’s when I get cocky and decide to skip that step that I lose everything. Go figure!
July 25, 2006 at 3:10 pm
Yeah, everytime I fail to get comments and it seems crickets are chirping, I just tell myself that it’s BLOGGER’s fault, not my writing. Heh.
July 25, 2006 at 6:29 pm
I have had the same problem over the past six months (SIX MONTHS!) My favorite part is ABSOLUTELY the word verification. Just to be mean, it gives me words with umlauts and tildes! How the heck do you throw THOSE in?!
July 25, 2006 at 8:29 pm
But if Blogger doesn’t screw up once in awhile, that would be one less thing for us to blog about!!! They are performing a public service.
July 25, 2006 at 9:33 pm
lol.. yep. It’s def. free. That only affords us so much complaining.
Pretty funny that we both said Sissy Spacek at exactly the same time!
~S
July 25, 2006 at 10:55 pm
I hope the principal didn’t spank you!
I say amen to this post. I had trouble this morning too.
July 26, 2006 at 6:16 am
I’m now having problems posting to your site because your old weatherpixie and her cat Trixie keeps nudging me out of the way. She’s pretty steamed that you kicked her out by the way.
You could try wordpress. That’s free.
I’ve taken to writing stuff on napkins and supergluing them to tables. Jury is still (unbelievably) out on the success of this move.
Oh my word verification was “shutit”.
So I will.
July 26, 2006 at 6:44 am
Rather bitch than switch…love it! I’m right there with you!
July 26, 2006 at 9:13 am
I hate it when I can’t comment. Usually, I end up copying and pasting my comment into an email so I can go back and paste it to the bloggers comments later when it’s up and running.
Wow, that was a looooooooonnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg sentence!
I got my own domain because I got fed up with blogspot. It’s only 4.95 a month and I’ve learned a lot of groovy code since then.
July 26, 2006 at 10:18 am
You failed to mention the picture posting feature, which works so beuatifully approximately one-third of the time…
July 28, 2006 at 11:53 am
I keep telling myself that I’m going to get off of Blogger. But then something from my real life – like family or work – comes along and it falls back onto the back burner.
At some point, I’ll get my own domain, host, and all the other doodads that brave bloggers get. Until then, I’ll deal with Blogger, warts and all.
As long as I can read my favorite blogs – yours highly among them – I’m happy.