{"id":883,"date":"2005-04-07T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2005\/04\/07\/blogger-frustration\/"},"modified":"2005-04-07T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-07T18:55:00","slug":"blogger-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/blogger-frustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&rsquo;t been posting much lately because I&rsquo;ve been so insanely busy but also because Blogger has been driving me nuts. It&rsquo;s been slooooow and buggy buggy buggy. Just trying to get to the posting page can take 5 trials and you are never sure these days if it&rsquo;s going to work. No more quicky posts done in 5 minutes, in and out of the system. It takes a lot of the pleasure out of blogging.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m reassured to see that I&rsquo;m not the only one with this problem, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,67138,00.html\">this article from Wired<\/a> explains. How can Google let one of their products go so bad?<\/p>\n<p>I know, I know, all of you blog snobs think that I should switch to a different kind of blogging system and get something fancier. I&rsquo;m just not willing to invest the time in moving my whole blog to a new platform. Everybody I know who has moved out of Blogger ended up trying two or three more platforms before settling down. I just don&rsquo;t have that kind of courage. I figured if I stuck with Blogger long enough, the service would get better and I would have saved some energy with an unnecessary move.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the service hasn&rsquo;t gotten better. I was waiting for them to implement a commenting system, but the one they came up with is clumsy so I stuck with my free, <a href=\"http:\/\/rateyourmusic.com\/yaccs\">Yaccs<\/a> service. I told you: I don&rsquo;t move very fast.<\/p>\n<p>Come on, Google people, do something. And please, do it fast!<\/p>\n<p>Note: I paid for Blogger Pro a while ago and I&rsquo;d be willing to pay for better service, even though I never got that damn sweater they promised me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&rsquo;t been posting much lately because I&rsquo;ve been so insanely busy but also because Blogger has been driving me nuts. It&rsquo;s been slooooow and buggy buggy buggy. Just trying to get to the posting page can take 5 trials and you are never sure these days if it&rsquo;s going to work. No more quicky&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/07\/blogger-frustration\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blogger frustration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}