Getting hacked off now
With Blogger, that is.
Sure, it's free, so you can't really complain. But lately I've been finding it very difficult to actually access anyone's blogs. Click on my link to Halfhead, and nothing happens for a bit. Then a box pops up and tells me it timed out whilst trying to connect. All of the blogspot blogs are the same, I can't get in.
Oddly enough I can do the posting thing. Well, obviously I can because I'm doing it right now. But quite often I can't get into my own comments to reply to people. I've got the system set up so that I get the comments emailed to me, but that's only half the fun. Yesterday's post alerted me to the fact that Gabriele has tagged me, but I've not been able to get into the Lost Fort for days, so I didn't know anything about it. I still can't get in, so I can't play, which make me look like a curmudgeon (or at least more of a curmudgeon than usual).
It's one of the reasons why I don't regularly visit all the blogs on my blogroll - the other being that I don't allow myself enough time to visit everyone every day (and they don't all post every day anyway), otherwise I'd never get any work done at all. And Sandra, if you want to be tagged - you're it.
So what to do? Well, I could move things over to the DevilDog website and set up my own blog there. Or I could try one of the other blog-providers. Or I could persevere with blogger, since it's free.
But it's damned irritating nonetheless.
Sure, it's free, so you can't really complain. But lately I've been finding it very difficult to actually access anyone's blogs. Click on my link to Halfhead, and nothing happens for a bit. Then a box pops up and tells me it timed out whilst trying to connect. All of the blogspot blogs are the same, I can't get in.
Oddly enough I can do the posting thing. Well, obviously I can because I'm doing it right now. But quite often I can't get into my own comments to reply to people. I've got the system set up so that I get the comments emailed to me, but that's only half the fun. Yesterday's post alerted me to the fact that Gabriele has tagged me, but I've not been able to get into the Lost Fort for days, so I didn't know anything about it. I still can't get in, so I can't play, which make me look like a curmudgeon (or at least more of a curmudgeon than usual).
It's one of the reasons why I don't regularly visit all the blogs on my blogroll - the other being that I don't allow myself enough time to visit everyone every day (and they don't all post every day anyway), otherwise I'd never get any work done at all. And Sandra, if you want to be tagged - you're it.
So what to do? Well, I could move things over to the DevilDog website and set up my own blog there. Or I could try one of the other blog-providers. Or I could persevere with blogger, since it's free.
But it's damned irritating nonetheless.
Comments
Have you tried adding all your Blogger reads to something like Bloglines? It won't help commenting, of course, but it'll mean their system will read blogs so you don't have to... :-)
I figure it's when Stuart's changing and try again. Usually comes up fine right away.
I have a pretty fast system and wireless connection, though. Maybe slower connections get stuck long enough to cause trouble.
You wouldn't be saying anything about men in general when you talk about slower, would you?
I've got Thunderbird reading the RSS feeds now, so I can at least see what people are up to. Alternatively I'll just have to try and be more of a morning person.