The problem with disappearing posts - blog posts that display with no content (except the post title - examine the photo below, please) visible, was first reported several weeks ago. Today, I felt the need to update my post about this issue. Having updated the post, I refreshed to test, and poetic justice here, saw a surprise.
OK, enough! How can I help people, if the content which I use to help isn't visible?
And as random as the problem seems to be, you never know if any one of your posts is currently white screened. With any blog of any size, you could have one or more posts white screened at any time, and never know about it.
And with caching latency, some of your readers at any time, might have a fresh copy of your post, provided by Blogger immediately before the problem hit your post. Only those with no copy of the post, or a stale copy of the post, will have to retrieve the problem post. So not all of your readers will see the problem.
And this problem continues, still.
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OK, enough! How can I help people, if the content which I use to help isn't visible?
And as random as the problem seems to be, you never know if any one of your posts is currently white screened. With any blog of any size, you could have one or more posts white screened at any time, and never know about it.
And with caching latency, some of your readers at any time, might have a fresh copy of your post, provided by Blogger immediately before the problem hit your post. Only those with no copy of the post, or a stale copy of the post, will have to retrieve the problem post. So not all of your readers will see the problem.
And this problem continues, still.
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Comments
Glad to see your post back. And mine too.
If it makes any difference, I think the very first time this happened was the day the "Monetize with Adsense Between Posts" selection was added. I wasn't using the feature, but maybe that's involved somehow.
Do you ever see a disappearing post after you approve a comment?
Ananda,
No the HTML snippet that references "google.friendconnect" is not part of the Friend Connect or Following gadget. It's garbage, that doesn't show up in a properly published blog.
The next time this pops up, I'll extract the exact code, and put it into another post. Post a comment here, if you want to hasten that.
I have an email sent to me whenever a comment is posted, and I moderate then. I don't get spam all that often though.
So have you every checked any of your posts just after a comment is published to that post? When do you typically observe the disappearing posts problem?
I'm in the Alaska time zone, and I get up kinda late as it is. So my "morning" is often already afternoon on the East coast.