Which browser do you use? This might be a stupid thought (what we in the IT help community call a "is the power on?" question) but maybe Blogger doesn't work well with your browser, or vice versa?
I have the same problems in both Chrome and Safari, which aren't giants on the order of Firefox or Explorers but ain't small potatoes either (with, I would imagine, greater market share among Mac users like myself). And I see lots of like complaints about Blogger around the Interwebs. I used to try to get help through the service's documentation and forums, but the signal-to-noise ratio as well as efficacy of specific proposed solutions when discovered were just too low to waste my time there.
Not really, certainly nothing on the magnitude with which you've had to deal.
It can be a little buggy for me sometimes, and likes to randomly insert line breaks that can only be removed by going into HTML and I feel like their page formatting, especially in regards to pictures, has only gotten worse with time, not better. But nothing that makes me think it'd be a whole lot better anywhere else (everything has its bugs from time to time) and certainly nothing close to the level of your struggles.
I know Blogger has a poor reputation among the interwebs, and the only thing less helpful than their support is Microsoft's, so I'm not at all surprised that's been a dead end for you.
I'm using Firefox, but short of using some crusty old version of IE, I'd be surprised if the browser made much of a difference, at least in this day and age, especially Chrome and Safari, which aren't exactly upstart browsers still working out their kinks.
It just sucks that blogger is such a pain for you, if for no other reason than it's costing the rest of us more Blam!
Blam has weird Murphy's Law technology vibes. I've seen things turn on and off around him or clearly not work properly for him when they work fine for other people (and not because he's being ignorant). He can also hear and "feel" pitches that are beyond normal ken, like "I think you left your monitor on... upstairs."
Which browser do you use? This might be a stupid thought (what we in the IT help community call a "is the power on?" question) but maybe Blogger doesn't work well with your browser, or vice versa?
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ReplyDeleteI have the same problems in both Chrome and Safari, which aren't giants on the order of Firefox or Explorers but ain't small potatoes either (with, I would imagine, greater market share among Mac users like myself). And I see lots of like complaints about Blogger around the Interwebs. I used to try to get help through the service's documentation and forums, but the signal-to-noise ratio as well as efficacy of specific proposed solutions when discovered were just too low to waste my time there.
You've never had issues with Blogger?
@Blam: You've never had issues with Blogger?
ReplyDeleteNot really, certainly nothing on the magnitude with which you've had to deal.
It can be a little buggy for me sometimes, and likes to randomly insert line breaks that can only be removed by going into HTML and I feel like their page formatting, especially in regards to pictures, has only gotten worse with time, not better. But nothing that makes me think it'd be a whole lot better anywhere else (everything has its bugs from time to time) and certainly nothing close to the level of your struggles.
I know Blogger has a poor reputation among the interwebs, and the only thing less helpful than their support is Microsoft's, so I'm not at all surprised that's been a dead end for you.
I'm using Firefox, but short of using some crusty old version of IE, I'd be surprised if the browser made much of a difference, at least in this day and age, especially Chrome and Safari, which aren't exactly upstart browsers still working out their kinks.
It just sucks that blogger is such a pain for you, if for no other reason than it's costing the rest of us more Blam!
Blam has weird Murphy's Law technology vibes. I've seen things turn on and off around him or clearly not work properly for him when they work fine for other people (and not because he's being ignorant). He can also hear and "feel" pitches that are beyond normal ken, like "I think you left your monitor on... upstairs."
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