The new Blogger is worse than the old one (if you’re human, that is)
I can’t understand what’s superior about the new Blogger, which I was forced to change to, otherwise Google would not let me in.
I have to type in a longer email address as my username. The cookies forget that I am even signed in. I seem to recall Blogger claiming I would not have to wait for the publication of posts because it was all instantaneous. Right now, I am at Vox while I am waiting for the publication of posts because it is not instantaneous. It’s been a few minutes. I notice no time difference between old and new Blogger.
It lets me do tags. Great. Waste more space. I was already doing tags anyway, using other services.
The conversion process was bollocks. The reason I am waiting is that it couldn’t convert my old template properly, rendering a few characters unreadable. I had to go in manually to change them.
I’m stuck with that load of cobblers for now, but it is yet another example of computer types “improving” things without understanding normal human behaviour.
Blogger should have let us stay with a choice of old or new. Let the geeks go on to the new one and talk up how things have improved, and we stupid mere mortals can stay with the old and get on with our work.
I would have recommended Blogger had they let it be. Now, with all these “improvements”, I think I will recommend Vox.
PS.: I notice that because I have to sign in with my Google account, it keeps me logged in when I do a search. I do not want Google to associate my searches with my email account. Thus, I sign out. And when I use Blogger, I have to sign in again. There is no practicality to this.
And why should I not trust Google? I bet there are a few Chinese guys in jail with no charge behind the Bamboo Curtain who might be able to say why.
Comments