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So Blogger is now having trouble with links, I had to actually do the html thing for those links under the photo. For those who wonder, I used to be able to enter text, "(Source)" - for instance - then highlight the word "Source" and click on a tool thingy that kinda looked like a paperclip, then I just had to paste the actual link into the popup brought up by the paperclip. Yeah, doesn't work anymore.
On Sunday I was unable to link the current post over on MeWe and Facebook. On Monday the MeWe bit worked. Facebook no, no doubt because the link to Facebook is provided by, who else, Blogger. Someone at Gargle effed up the code. I sent Gargle a message along the lines of "What the Hell?" with a brief description of what was broken with a screen shot of what was broken.
I've had emails from a cuppla folks saying "Hey, where's the Such-And-Such link? I love that site."
Well, a few sites have had their links garbled by Gargle and got shoved down to the bottom of the sidebar. That's reserved for blogs without a "feed." Don't click on those, you'll get a faceful of html (might even be xml, it's that ugly).
Anyhoo, this sudden change in the wind has caused a great fury to rise up in me. Makes ya wanna smite someone, know what I mean? So all my creativity has flown, gone like the leaves in late fall, blown off course and out into the woods. (The Muse won't come near me when I'm in a rage, can't say I blame her.)
I know that they will fix it eventually, I know I should be patient, but DAMN IT, why do they keep fixing things that don't need fixing?
Bah! I may seek another avenue for my writing. Blogger and I have been together ten years, but these new "features" (which always break something) are getting to be too much.
Yeah, I know, First World problem.
Don't blame you for getting angry Sarge, when something changes for the worse...........aaaaarrrgh!!
ReplyDeleteIt looks like they fixed whatever it was they broke. Still, four straight days of frustration ...
DeleteSarge, equally frustrated. That whole "make be time to think about migrating" (no idea where) may be a thought for me as well. Which is awful. But Blogger has somehow stopped trying to outperform other similar platforms; it seems to be a slow form of descent now.
ReplyDeleteThey seemed to have fixed things, but four days? I don't think Gargle cares anymore.
DeleteIt's the way folks prove they are "innovating" now. They put the search bar at the bottom of the page, scramble things, cripple what was working fine, and generally stomp all over the clean floor with dirty feet. My mom would be swatting bottoms with a broom or a belt. I consider it the hip-hop webdesign bureau. They seem to steal bits and bobs for all over and then paste it together with no order. The slather it with an overweening attitude, proving they have lost the ability to be really creative.
ReplyDeleteCan't argue with that!
DeleteWell put STxAR!
DeleteBoat Guy
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DeleteNormality can rule again?
ReplyDeleteI think that ship has sailed.
DeleteDunno as I'd call much "normal" these days...
ReplyDeleteBoat Guy
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DeleteMine never came back from when they ‘updated blogger 5 years ago. I’ve doing the html since then and can no longer caption pictures and inserting film clips went to hell again last month. Stupid b*st*rds. Hates them.
ReplyDeleteI seriously think they don't know what they're doing half the time.
DeleteThe Feral Irishman seems to have found a workaround (or maybe how to work with his), but it may be worthwhile to hop (jump?) over there to see what he's done
ReplyDeleteProblem has been fixed globally from what I can tell. I will check out what he's done though. (For future reference.)
DeleteYour frustrated and you are an expert blogger. Imagine the total impotent rage of we Latter Day Luddites facing the same situation. My neighbor down the hall is tech savvy and will help me but costs me a bottle of his favorite tipple.
ReplyDeleteIt's tiresome when they break things.
DeleteJust call up their customer service number and let them know! hahahahahahahahaha
ReplyDeleteYou can actually submit feedback from the design page. They don't respond directly but so far they've fixed everything they've broken.
DeleteAnd once again, you get what you paid for. 😒
Crusty Old TV Tech here. Sounds like you need to borrow a wee dram from Musie, she won't be needing it for a bit! Same crapula at work. First, to get out of sharing floppies and ZIP disks, we get a nice NAS location with access control via our login credentials. Works great. Big improvement over floppies. Then some brilliant IT weenie mind decides we need to Sharepointize our lives. Well, OK, after months of messing about and re-learning how to do stuff, it works again, until it doesn't. Periodic "upgrades" kill Sharepoint until the IT weenies fix it. Then, some management type decides we need to Box-ize our lives. Again, the relearning and reposting, and the resource sink is still yawning its great maw in front of us. I think it's shiny new thing syndrome, you get to a nice useable 90% solution, and management veers us all off on a SQUIRREL! chase when some IT type sees some shiny new thing. Can I have some of Musie's hooch, please?
ReplyDeleteShiny new IT things, we hates them Precious, yes we does.
DeleteI know you don't like politics here, but it was quite interesting that leftwing moonbattery sites (yes, I look at those once in a while) suffered far far far fewer issues than moderate and rightwing sites. Hmmmm.. Of course, that may be due to not a lot of people going to leftwing sites.
ReplyDeleteEh.
I do see it as whomever practicing putting on the throttle by "Oops, mistake, tee-hee." Between loss of page counts and this stuff, well, enemy action is either next or current (not sure how many times 'oops' has been employed lately. 2 times or 3?)
Nope, they just effed up the way Blogger chases links.
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