For over 24 hours now many of us have been experiencing issue after issue with our Blogger Blogs. The first issue I experienced was trying to schedule a blog post yesterday morning to go up in the afternoon while I was at an appointment. I thought that I had bypassed the problem and that it would post so that when I got home I could work on the next thing. Only when I got home it had not gone up and my blog was in read only mode. For the rest of the afternoon and through the night I monitored my blog (yes I know that makes me obsessive.) At different times my posts from Thursday were available and then missing again. I stayed up pretty late waiting for a change to get control over my blog again so I could schedule posts for this morning with no luck. So I went to sleep hoping I would have access this morning. Only I found that my blog was not only still in read only mode but that everything was gone from Wednesday morning forward.
It seems that Google and Blogger have the problem under control now and have taken blogs out of read only mode. (let’s hope it stays that way). Keeping my fingers crossed my blog posts from Wednesday and Thursday come back along with the posts that I had scheduled in the background. According to the following report from Blogger they know the posts are still missing and will be back as soon as possible.
Here’s what happened: during scheduled maintenance work Wednesday night, we experienced some data corruption that impacted Blogger’s behavior. Since then, bloggers and readers may have experienced a variety of anomalies including intermittent outages, disappearing posts, and arriving at unintended blogs or error pages. A small subset of Blogger users (we estimate 0.16%) may have encountered additional problems specific to their accounts. Yesterday we returned Blogger to a pre-maintenance state and placed the service in read-only mode while we worked on restoring all content: that’s why you haven’t been able to publish. We rolled back to a version of Blogger as of Wednesday May 11th, so your posts since then were temporarily removed. Those are the posts that we’re in the progress of restoring.
Yes, it stunk. 🙁 I'm still missing content, but at least was able to copy one biggie that still shows up in Reader and then save it in Word.
I'm a little behind the 8 ball now, as my scheduled post didn't go up yesterday or this morning. Oh Blogger, I'm apparently lost without you. Trying to decide if I should just post what was intended or save them for a later date and just continue on as of tomorrow. What ever the reason, I'm glad Blogger is back.
Yes, I wasn't happy! While I haven't had time to do a blog post I did finally have time to wander around and read blogs, but some had vanished and those that I could access I couldn't comment on! Things are mostly back to normal now but videos on my blog aren't showing up. Hopefully they'll get everything working again properly soon:)
“intermittant” problems? It was a major and almost complete outtage. I know these things will happen (the joys of technology) but we've all become so dependent on it and its sad how much we missed it! This actually made me more aware of how much time I spend reading blogs.
I also need to back up more often, at least posts I care about.
We seem to have missed the Blogger problems – but the LOTH's hotmail account was down all yesterday morning and she wasn't happy about that I can tell you.
it was bad….i even looked into wordpress because of this..i lost some comments too…sucky sucky…your newest follower!
A dimwitted rightwing blogger decided that it was All About Her and that the evil lefties at Google were targeting her blog for elimination because of her Views. A bunch of other rightwing blogs decided she was right and hopped on the bandwagon of bashing Google’s Evil Leftist Bias.
Everyone else–both non-political blogs, and lefty political blogs–actually noticed that it was a general outage affecting everyone.
No platform is going to be perfect, neither free nor paid, but for bloggers for whom it makes sense to do so, you can probably get better reliability by moving to a paid service–after checking it out carefully first, of course.
Stupid Blogger… congrats on the platform switch. I love your new layout!