Blogger is down
I suspect Blogger is down: I can update to Blogger-hosted sites, but not my own—which is ironic, since those of us who host our own blogs should be given slightly better service as we leech less off Blogger. For the last few hours I have had the ‘001 java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out’ error, which has happened before. In the past, I would just wait a few hours and it would sort itself out.
I also suspect the new Blogger Beta is eating up resources there. A friend of mine is on the new service and I can no longer comment on his blog (unless I set my name to ‘Anonymous’). It seems it is another computer-industry “improvement”: make a service heavier and worse and increment the version number. Even coComment today is not as good as it was months ago: it’s far harder to edit blog and subject names, and for me, it takes anywhere between four and twenty seconds to work each time I activate the bookmarklet, because I live too far away from Switzerland and I don’t use Firefox. The customer service has been fantastic, but the applet is just way too fiddly now.
So there is another reason for this Vox blog: a place to tell people that my main one is down, and that they can venture here if need be.
But since it is part of the computing world, I suspect Vox, too, will go through “improvements” and life will be made less convenient as a result.
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Thank you, Amanda—I’ll do that next time I’m at Mark’s site. It’s the only one I go to that is on the new Beta. I’ll also make sure I never switch! (I imagine most of us now on regular Blogger will be on that one day, maybe when the glitches are ironed out?)
I do see your point about hosting your own blog though, you would expect to get a decent service when you aren't using Blogger resources in the same way. It doesn't seem to work like that though. For about a year I hosted one of my other blogs on my own space but used Blogger to publish it, and if anything the service was worse than if I was using Blogspot. It was quite common for me to try to publish to the blog then find it did that thing where it sticks on XX% . I switched to Wordpress, there is a steeper learning curve but it's worth it because generally everything works as you would hope.