Thursday, May 26, 2005

Blogger bugs

I'm sick of blogger.

  • It's difficult to post with Blogger's edit window because
    • Inconsistent Mac interface leads to sometimes using control and sometimes the Apple key. For example italics use control but cut and paste uses Apple.
    • Incredibly poor spell checker. Doesn't learn words. Can't add possessive or capitalized versions automatically. Very small dictionary.
    • Not able to search while editing a post.
    • Spacing issues. HTML for this post is unreadable because of no carriage returns. There is another option for carriage returns which disable wsywig.
  • But it's difficult to create posts outside of blogger because
    • Cut and paste leads to many errors.
    • Mailing to blog adds extra paragraphs in middle of sentence and puts in unclosed tags.
  • It has no categories.
  • It's slow.
  • Templates are difficult to edit due to small text box, no search, lack of color coding.
  • Dealing with images is a hassle (this is most understandable, considering it is free service).
  • No password protection for posts.
  • Combined with Google bar spellchecker it will delete posts.
  • It can take a long time (months) for a blog to get indexed. Pretty poor for a service hosted by a search engine. Indexing speed is probably based on traffic.
  • There are sometimes problems on the edit screen where the edit bar will take up most of the page.
Also
  • Blogger support team is unresponsive to bug posts.
  • Bug list on blogger page is nowhere near complete.
  • Service outages.
  • Spellchecker is very poor. These were all words that Blogger didn't know as I was posting on July 30- Davids, sociologist's, publisher's, asphyxiated, unfunny, unAmerican . This number is fairly representative.

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