Seems that Blogger is messed up right now. I had a Blogger account back when I was still running my Livejournal. Around the time I was thinking of starting up a big-kid blog, I thought about just moving over to that site.
Still I thought about reading and commenting on the various WordPress powered blogs, and I liked them better.
Bummer for those of you on Blogger, and hopefully the d00ds at Google will sort that out.
**UPDATE** Looks like Blogger is back up! Glad to see you guys running again!
It’s a sign. My next prepared blogger post was that I was going to push away from blogging for a spell. Now everyone is whether they like it or not.
I started with Blogger because it was easy since it was on google. Although I don’t trust the Evil Empire part II. This may signify a move to WordPress. Of course it will probably do the same thing after I get there.
I thought I might make an “Evil Empire” comment….but when I have a Droid phone in my pocket that rings a little hollow.
Moving to WordPress is worth it. The management tools are better, and most themes have an iPhone/mobile variant for people who read from their phones. When I switched, it moved and converted all my posts pretty seamlessly, too.
The iPhone theme massively s*cks *ss unless the blogger makes a point of formatting their posts for it. I regularly read blogs on my iPad, and I HATE the WordPress iPhone/iPad default theme. I would much rather have to scroll awkwardly to read everything then manage the WordPress iPhone theme.
Otherwise I actually do enjoy reading WordPress blogs, they’re easy to read and navigate (in NORMAL themes anyway). I went with Blogger cause it was easy. They start crashing like this to much though and I’ll tell’em to GTH though!
Well, I guess I’ve got the day off. I was going to go shooting anyway…
Bust a few caps for me! 🙂
When Blogger breaks, someone else has to fix it. I can’t think of how many times I’ve seen “WordPress update ate my blog’ or similar.
If I were a prolific blogger I would likely be a lot more interested in the flexibility of WordPress–but for now simple is good, I can spend my effort on content.
So far all maintenance on this blog has been pretty easy, and I’m a friggin’ monkey with a hammer when it comes to software!
Tho I still do need to get the RSS widget working in the side bar…..
Still I thought about reading and commenting on the various WordPress powered blogs, and I liked them better.
You know, that’s interesting; I have the opposite experience. All Blogger blogs I read have a comment system with an easy email-followup-comments option (which I prefer to following comments in an RSS reader). A substantial minority of the WordPress blogs I read don’t have that option, making me less inclined to comment there, period. And of those that do, it’s a bit aggravating to have to validate every single subscription.
See that’s something I never do. I’m such a chatter-bug that any email account I ask to accept follow-up chatter would instantly be spammed!
Email subscription to comments is available in WordPress, but I believe it has to be selected. IIRC, it’s enabled by default in Blogger.
I know my blog has it enabled, and I’m on WordPress.com hosting with the free package, so the blogs that don’t have it have either chosen not to, don’t realize it’s available, or never bothered to set it up.
Do you know how I can set that up? I’d love for that to be available for those who want it.
Weerd,
I use this
http://www.sjmp.de/internet/subscribe-to-comments-mit-double-opt-in-pruefung/
For my email subscription plug in.
Automatically set up and just a few clicks to customize.
So far no complaints.
Ummm you got another link that totally isn’t German?
I don’t even know what I’m looking at…
If you go in your dashboard towards the bottom, in the “settings” box there should be a “discussion” link. Click that, then scroll down in the new page. Just above the “avatars” section there should be a check box for “subscribe to comments” (the description to the right says “Show a ‘subscribe to comments” option in the comment form”). I’m pretty sure that’s it. There’s also one to let people subscribe to the blog – they get an email when you publish a new post.
Pretty sure you have a plugin installed, Jake… And I am pretty sure (unless the updated versions of WP changed this) a plugin is required for comment subscription through email.
Ping me if you need help, Weer’d.
Going on 24 hours of outage there.
I’d be real hesitant to get into a Google Chromebook and cloud computing. It’d be no fun to have one’s documents unavailable for a day.
Yeah, cloud computing would be a great idea if we lived in a perfect world, with perfect shiny happy people and perfect internet connections and perfect servers that never crash…
Thankfully my Droid (which is cloud based) is working just fine.
If anyone wants to move to a slightly more stable platform and server, and have their own domain to boot, you know where to find me.
Linoge: I don’t recall installing any plugins, and I definitely never paid for one. My blog is running on WordPress’s free hosting, so I’m pretty sure they would charge for that.