Now What?

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Some of you may have noticed an inability to comment on juvat's Friday post, it ain't you, it ain't The Chant, it's Blogger, more than likely its parent, Google.

Google is a fairly faceless conglomerate, I mean, you can look up (I almost said "Google") who the boss is and it'll show you the guy. The guys who founded Google are also known. But these chaps aren't really "known" like Jeff Bezos, or say, Elon Musk. Or that Zuckerman fellow, ya know, the Facebook guy.

The Naviguesser once interviewed at Google HQ out in California. He was impressed with the facilities, the perks, and a number of other things (the salary was also nice he said), but from what he could see, they wanted you to work most of the time. The facilities were nice and the perks were nice so you would, as he saw it, spend most of your waking hours at work.

Google computer guys were expected to start innovating from Day One. And by innovate I think he meant "break things." Which they do, from time to time. It's not intentional, it just seems rather uncontrolled.

I did report the "can't comment" issue to Blogger, there's one of these things under the hood ...

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You click the "Send Feedback" button and you can tell them your issue. I've clicked that button a few times, never, ever heard back from whoever is at the other end of that button. 

Normally when they break something, it gets fixed in a day or so. Sometimes it's something they did intentionally and regardless of how the user community likes it, if Google wants it, it stays.

Sigh, one gets used to change, sometimes it turns out to be okay, in the long run. But change simply for the sake of change?

We hates it Precious ...

I trust they'll fix the commenting bug. After all, what's the point of blogging if there is no back and forth in the comments? No point at all really.

So we wait and we hope.

Nasty tricksy programmers, we hates them Precious, yes we do.