Blogger Still Down: Are You Going Through Blog Withdrawal?

@DabblerWordCraft--I use blogger and I have found that it's so much easier to write my stuff in WORD and then cut and paste it to blogger. Have you ever noticed then when you write it in blogger and go to preview it, it's all out of wack? Maybe that just happens to me.

I think blogger blows. I'm taking Laurie PK's advice and looking for someone to help me get my blog off of blogger and migrating to Word Press.
~Robyn
www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com ( http://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com )

I've been earning a full-time living from my Quips and Tips blogs for over 2 years now...if they were down, I'd be going through more than withdrawal!

I started on a Blogger blog, but quickly migrated to WordPress. One of my major frustrations with Blogger blogs -- as a reader who likes to make comments -- are the hoops you have to jump through when you want to leave a comment.

So, I feel for you Blogger bloggers...and encourage you to use this as an opportunity to try WordPress! :-)

All good things,
Laurie

Quips & Tips for Money & Love

Quips & Tips for Giving Gifts ( http://bit.ly/iYav05 )

I was also frustrated by blogger being down (I literally stocked the blogger status page for three hours waiting for it come up)

Then I see that my new...of course long with pictures...post was gone!

Want to frustrate me...remove posts I took forever to write!

It was the comments that really got to me. Not only did it delete two posts of mine I had put up AND did not save them into my drafts, just simply vanished- the meltdown erased about 30 comments. For a give-away for my blogoversary. . . and I am searching but the comments are nowhere to be found on blogger's dashboard. That was the frustrating part of the meltdown and certainly makes a case AGAINST saving everything online.

I just moved to self hosted WP from Blogger....I love it!! I had been trying to figure it out too...but it's SO worth it!!

I agree that you should do it sooner than later. There was 1 click install on my hosting site, so in 5 minutes I had all my posts with clickable links, comments, pictures in my WP blog. It was awesome!!

I was advised not to go with a super popular hosting company since it's harder to get customer service.

I wasn't able to get my preferred domain either, but was able to get the same name as my blogger blog so that was good. Don't know that I'd got with a .net

Good luck with your decisions!!
Denise @ Creative Kitchen

I found out that blogger was down when I had a post I wanted to get out. I wasn't happy. I wanted to punch it.
~Robyn
www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com ( http://www.dimsumanddoughnuts.com )

I am definitely having withdrawals, but more just anxiety and frustration! I am in the process of moving over to Wordpress now... I can't wait until its said and done and I can put this blurp behind me!

ETA.. Sorry about the multi - comments, it is my first time posting one and apparently I didn't "get" how to submit!

I am definitely having withdrawals, but more just anxiety and frustration! I am in the process of moving over to Wordpress now... I can't wait until its said and done and I can put this blurp behind me ;)

Check out my blog at: 

http://www.bettymingliu.com 

last night, I was teaching a college journalism class where i make everyone blog. the students were really bummed. now that they're hooked on blogging, the withdrawal is really annoying. oh well, at least they still have their facebook and twitter.....

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http://www.bettymingliu.com 

Whaaa? I didn't notice a thing happen. I didn't post yesterday, but still, I should have noticed something odd. I think I'd be OK for 3 days max. Then I would spontaneously combust.

Blondie writes at Tales From Clark Street ( http://www.talesfromclarkstreet.blogspot.com/ ).

Well, that explains why I was suddenly able to get through everything on Reader and very little new has been popping up!

I'm not terribly great at blogging on a consistent basis lately. But I guarantee that if my blog was down, I would almost instantaneously have five posts that I just needed to do NOW! lol

I have to say... this is MOST unfortunate. I use Wordpress, and I know how frustrated I get when I have problems with my site that my tech support (hubs) can eventually fix. It would be hard to wait for THE MAN to get his butt in gear. Like being held blog hostage. TERRIBLE.

Jenny Ingram writes at Jenny On The Spot ( http://www.jennyonthespot.com ) and wears glitter everyday. She also digresses over there on the Twitter @jennyonthespot ( http://twitter.com/jennyonthespot ).

No, they didn't go up. I had to go back and republish (including the deleted ones.) Another issue is that comments made more recently on published posts were deleted. Seems like maintenance should go more smoothly than this!

But yesterday's post is GONE, along with the comments form the previous post.
Ugh.
I've often debated whether I should continue to import my posts into FB but I'm glad I did - I just cut and paste it back into Blogger.

Anyone else strongly considering migrating after this episode?

Laurie

www.notjustaboutcancer.blogspot.com ( http://www.notjustaboutcancer.blogspot.com )

When cable internet goes down, I get right annoyed, so I sort of know the feeling...

I started on blogger, went to typepad, where I had a pro level account that I shut down. When I started writing fiction, I found wordpress dot com the better option. And it has yet to crash on me, just sayin'. ;-)

I still have a blogger account, because as you all know, whether blogger or wordpress, remember part of the lyrics in The Eagle's Hotel California: "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave." I've looked at it, but... doesn't tempt me.

I hope you all come back up soon. After all, we need the reads, and we don't need any more heat contributing to global warming.

nellewrites ( http://nellewrites.wordpress.com/ )

TOTALLY going for a silver lining here - but as someone that tries really, really hard to read all the blogs in her feed reader it has been kind of nice to not have SO many blogs to read today.

And now my moment of snark: When Blogger comes back up can all of you guys promise to get rid of your captchas & blog music??

Calliope blogs about Alzheimer's, Infertility, and Single Motherhood at http://creatingmotherhood.com

Sort of the same idea as a power outage?

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

Recently I took a self imposed week long hiatus from blogging - both writing and reading - to see what I would do with the time I usually spent in the blogosphere. I found that I really enjoyed spending that time pursuing other interests and being with my family. At the same time I itched to express myself and connect with others. When I returned from my blog blockade I was careful to create, and maintain, more of a balance between blogging time and family time and I've been really happy with it so far. Sometimes it's good to be forced to see how a change in your life affects you - you never know when it will be for the better.

At least your posts are still in my Reader (your most recent ones). Come post over here on BlogHer.

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

It's sort of crazy that it's still down. Just checked.

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

Am I going through withdrawal/irritated? Umm, yes. :p

Not to mention the removal of the last two posts!!! ...so no even SEMI-NEW content showing. It's really driving me up a wall.

Maegan Tintari is a Fashion, Home & Lifestyle blogger from Los Angeles. Go to ...love Maegan ( http://www.lovemaegan.com ) to find out more!

So prescheduled posts (as long as Blogger didn't delete them in that sweep) are still going up?

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

It's funny, but I am mostly irritated because I have pre-loaded a bunch of "Daily Photo" posts to launch every day. I can't remember which pictures are coming, so I am antsy to see what I've already done...

I will say that every server goes down at some point, BUT that said, I still think there are so many benefits to self-hosting. And the longer you wait, the harder it is to move.

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

Irritated is a good word to describe this.

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

Annoying me way too much I'm afraid. I don't get a lot of computer time until after Charlie is in bed so I try to write and preschedule posts at night.

Seriously considering switching to WP even more now. Found a new Blog name I love but some stupid company in England owns the .com, at least until June 26th. .net is available though so I have much to think on.

...while tapping my fingers in frustration....tap-tap-tappity-tap...

Elizabeth

@texasebeth ( http://twitter.com/texasebeth )  and My Life, such as it is.... ( http://texasebeth.blogspot.com )

You can always post it here on BlogHer!

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

Not so much going through withdrawal, cuz some of the authors I read also have facebook pages, but definitely irritated. I'm fairly new to blogging, so still trying to build mine up and this is kind of a setback.

My site was down a month or so ago when GoDaddy was having problems. It was like one whole Saturday (which isn't a day that I regularly post on anyway) and I was going CRAZY. I refreshed my site like, constantly.

I was okay with no Blogger yesterday, but I'm going pretty nuts today. Have a post sitting here that is already late to the party and the delay is killing me.

NaBloPoMo people are freaking out too. This is the thrilling part of daily blogging :-)

Melissa writes Stirrup Queens ( http://stirrup-queens.com ) and Lost and Found ( http://lostandfoundandconnectionsabound.blogspot.c... ). Her novel about blogging is Life from Scratch ( http://www.life-from-scratch.com/ ).

I need to catch up on the Z to A blogging in May challenge! I'm going through withdrawal.