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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 01:17 PM
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Anyone else having trouble with Blogger.com today?
GGGRRR!!!

I have got to dump blogger!
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 01:34 PM
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1. Yes!
Edited on Wed Jun-07-06 01:38 PM by salvorhardin
Excruciatingly slow loads and half the time comments won't load! Almost impossible to get the main Blogger.com page to load to log in. It seems like they go through this every few months and then after everybody complains for a month they throw more servers at the problem which makes it go away for another few months. Why oh why can't Google lend out a couple of their PhDs and see if they can't come up with a better blogging platform? I mean, they own Blogger, right?

On edit: Even though I run my own server and power Neural Gourmet with Drupal, there's so many blogs out there powered by Blogger that it puts a cramp in the entire blogosphere. FWIW I lurve Drupal (you can even power multiple sites off one Drupal installation), and OpenSourceHosting is the best (and cheap!). Ask Brainshrub about OpenSourceHosting.

On edit again: Drupal is not for everybody. Power breeds complexity and Drupal offers great power. You might not want to deal with the complexity, although James Seng is packaging a Drupal For Bloggers version of Drupal.
http://www.drupal.org
http://james.seng.cc/wiki/wiki.cgi?Drupal_For_Bloggers
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 04:23 PM
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2. It's aways on a Wednesday and/or Thursday.
Double GGGRRR!!!

My DU Blog Box column is due at noon on Thursdays, and this will be
the first week I haven't been able to meet my deadline because of
blogger.com (and my own stupidity).

I stupidly parked my blog links in my practice blog (because I
like to look at my formatting as I compose the column and because my bookmarks
folder is possessed: it never opens a link in the same window as the last one).

Never again.

I'll just write the code in MSWord from now on and park my links there in the Word doc
until I dump blogger for good.

I'll check out Drupal. Thanks for the info!

Delilah
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-07-06 04:29 PM
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3. Heh -- I'd never noticed the pattern before
But now that you mention it... At least Michael got the latest Carnival of the Liberals up at expert-opinion.blogspot.com before the lock out.
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