Blogger status

Blogger does in fact have a status page, but I don't think it is updated frequently enough to offer real-time status. To my mind, the top few items should be shown directly on the Blogger Dashboard web page.

In my opinion, Blogger status should also indicate problems that have been reported that may not yet have solutions.

-- Jack Krupansky

Time lost screwing around with Blogger

I figure that I've lost over three hours of my time this weekend trying to figure out and work around problems with Blogger. When working, it is a powerful and useful tool, but problems can be extremely frustrating.

-- Jack Krupansky

Blogger bug: Colon in post title causes title text to be mangled

I tried to use the following text for the title of my previous post:

Blogger bug: View Blog for new post needs refresh

but it gets posted as:

logfor new post needs refresh

The colon triggered the malfunction.

So, I changed it to a dash and that works fine.

I don't think I ever encountered this problem when posting via email.

Funny, I tried to reproduce the problem with this post, but instead of mangling the title, I lose the labels and the most recent edit of the post when I click on the "edit" icon for the post.

Turns out, there is a workaround for that as well: do a browser "refresh" after you click on the "edit" icon for the post.

-- Jack Krupansky