Let ’em ’ave it

Yes, finally! Blogger has a survey. Time to rip in to them. At least they are listening, but this is ex post facto.

What if anything do you find frustrating or unappealing about the new version of Blogger?
1. It is slower and less flexible: republishing is a pain, and I would like the option of doing just the index, not the whole blog.

2. Could not easily format tag field as I am using a custom template. When I decided to remove all my tags, the Blogger system crashed on republication (error code bX-7cgtlg).

3. Site feeds no longer grouped by date. They became random: I had 2006 posts mixed with 2007 posts, with no logic as to which would be chosen.

4. With the message 'Your Publish is Taking Longer than Expected. To continue waiting for it to finish, click here', the link did not work initially.

5. We should have been given the option to remain with the old Blogger, but I was forced to change. You are still supporting a lot of old Blogger blogs, and you should have continued to do so, especially while the new one was so unreliable.

6. The big dislike: if I log in to Blogger, I am also logged in to Google. I do not wish for the two to be that closely associated. If I search on Google, I don't want to get the impression Google is watching. I do not want my preferences and searches watched like that.

7. I have to regularly re-sign in to Blogger even though I never logged out, and I am still logged in to Google. This, admittedly, has happened less over the last week.

8. The abandonment of nice, short Blogger usernames in favour of a longer email address. On some blogs, Blogger says it gives me the option of using either my Google account or my old Blogger account. Fact: using my old Blogger account will not work. It's like you've pulled all the plugs out and left those of us who liked your old service totally in the cold.

What changes or additional features would you like to see for Blogger?
None. I am switching to another platform as soon as I get some spare time. I am surprised that in all your beta testing, all these bugs remained.

What do you like best about Blogger?
HTML editing, but not much more besides any more. You used to be a nice Dodge Dart, now you are a Dodge Aspen.