Comments on: Blogger Suffers Major Outage. Bloggers Not Happy

By: Lowell Christensen

Lowell Christensen — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:58:32 +0000

Wordpress is great, but far more cumbersome. Too many restrictions and a bit of information overload on how to use all the features. ( a gazillion buttons). I find it clunky. Blogger on the other hand is intuitive. Things just work naturally and allow people who are less computer savvy to get up and running. Widgets are easier to manage and everything is faster. Blogger has a lot of great drop and drag features. Html works in the widgets like a dream as well, and editing the templates in Blogger are easy. Wordpress strips out a lot of what you want to do. Plus, Blogger it’s all free… including adding a custom domain name.

I also tried WordPress Direct which has a monthly fee. Nothing but trouble and slow….

By: Vikas

Vikas — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:52:46 +0000

how can blogger be down for such long? i have been trying since afternoon its 7PM now still its down.. (india).

Any wild guess???

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By: Unique-Frequency

Unique-Frequency — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:11:05 +0000

Wordpress > LiveJournal, Wordpress >> Blogspot…

I had a little dicussion with Dor about blogs around the time I set this up, and she chose Wordpress and Blogspot as her favourites, and I chose Wordpress and LiveJournal (LJ). Let’s take a look why:
Wordpress

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Learning how to respond to downtime | Hi, I’m Colin Devroe. — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:23:52 +0000

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By: CoosCreations

CoosCreations — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:54:20 +0000

I have every faith in Google working its magic once again…

I’m one of the geeky tech-bods referred to earlier, so I’m more of a fan of CMS than a free hosted service… but then I WOULD say that, wouldn’t I?

By: Mobile gal

Mobile gal — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 08:31:12 +0000

I didn’t notice this outage.

By: MZ

MZ — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:50:50 +0000

First of all,
Blogger is ad free, where Wordpress is not.
I’d hate for the readers having to look at ads.
(And sites start blocking users of Adblock)

Second, Blogger is damn simple.
Yes, geeks want stuff to fiddle and impress
their buddies with. But the readers,
don’t give a f…k!

Look at the blogs with huge readership,
they all are ….. cut and dry and SIMPLE.

So teckies, geeks, Apple worshipers, etc. can use fancy
stuff and authors who really want to be read use blogger.

I believe Google is fiddling with the various accounts,
one can have: Blogger, Gmail, Analytics, etc.
They seem to be trying to centralize the login.

Many Firefox plugins like CustomizeGoogle,
Gmail Manager and Cookie Safe play with
cookies and for days now the Gmail login works
on and off only.
My bet, Google is centralizing login for more accurate
user profiles.

By: sodapop

sodapop — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:01:51 +0000

Wow. Normally I don’t pimp stuff, but Concentric.com has a unique clustered hosting that prevents these kind of outages. They have blogging software too.

By: Rob Poitras

Rob Poitras — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:00:51 +0000

The food blogging community are really big users of blogger.

By: Coupons

Coupons — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:53:58 +0000

I like blogger hosted on my server, and there is a reason for it.

If you have multiple Wordpress blogs, on dozens of domains, whenever a new version is released (quite often sometimes) you have to update many, many installations. So for some simpler blogs, blogger is a good option.

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By: CompostMan

CompostMan — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:23:54 +0000

Blogger is free, even if you use your own domain. No need to pay for hosting or mess around with WordPress security updates.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:15:59 +0000

Google can do it much better.

By: Bali

Bali — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:06:18 +0000

I have no complaints yet

By: Bhangu

Bhangu — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:39:13 +0000

Blogger is Great.. i M lovin it :p

By: tish grier

tish grier — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:36:03 +0000

I’ve had a crummy ole Blogger blog for many years now, and yeah–there are those occasional random bizaare “bx” codes (since google took over anyway.) I just shrug my shoulders and wait for them to go away….eventually they do….

I’m also still using my old HTML template, so that may have something to do with why I didn’t get zapped. Not converting caused me a bit of a hiccup in the beginning–and I had to re-index my blog with google and other search engines, but it’s working fine now.

and regardless of whether or not I use a crummy ole Blogger blog with a crappy blogspot extension, I’ve done pretty well for myself out here on the ole Internets. Sometimes it’s not where you blog, but who’s reading you.

By: Sailor Moon

Sailor Moon — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:17:39 +0000

Every blog needs a few good splogs to back it up. Keep your ‘real’ blog on your server, but you really need a few toadies that get fast indexing to give you an advantage over the 90% that don’t.

Not ethical? Well, there are a lot of us who don’t live in San Francisco and don’t have connections and will never get in TechCrunch. Unsustainable growth in San Francisco is bleeding the life out of the software industry in the rest of the country, and then we’re going to pay taxes to bail you out of the subprime mess that kept your real estate industry from collapsing three years ago.

By: CanCar

CanCar — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:59:41 +0000

Although BLOGGER is not the best one of all tools, is good and for our aims it works. They have good tips, useful and educative.

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 12:04:16 +0000

Interesting choice of headline – “Bloggers not happy”. What about their readers? Oh wait…

By: Mark Evans

Mark Evans — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:50:05 +0000

Maybe this will convince Google to spend some more attention on Blogger, which has pretty much been ignored since it was acquired.

By: dc crowley

dc crowley — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:59:30 +0000

I have a blogger account. Maybe I was asleep. I noticed no problems

By: web hosting server

web hosting server — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:55:41 +0000

I think blogger should improve theri commenting feature, it’s not just easy like commenting other blogs, if you would like to add a comment.

By: Mark - ProBloggers Matrix

Mark - ProBloggers Matrix — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:45:33 +0000

I have mentioned it many times on my blog, ProBloggers Matrix, and I will say it yet again to all would-be bloggers:

DON’T USE FREE BLOGS. GET YOUR OWN BLOG. PAY FOR A BLOG HOST. USE WORDPRESS.

ESTABLISH 100 PERCENT OWNERSHIP OF YOUR BLOG.

YOU USE A FREE BLOG, YOU’RE SETTING YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE.

GET YOUR OWN BLOG!!!!!

JUST DO IT.

End of rant.