The Real Blogger Status

So back to my immediately previous reason for publishing this blog. One of my friends emailed me today, and he appeared to take the "403 Forbidden" message personally. Chuck, if you don't want me viewing your blog, just let me know. Or why am I getting illegal access? In a later IM, I confirmed that what he saw as "illegal access" was actually our dear friend from the weekend, "403 Forbidden". But that got me thinking. This was one friend, and HE was able to email me, and help me set the matter straight with HIM. But what of the hundreds of strangers who got this message? Will they ever try again? Possibly not , based upon this one thought on Blogger Forum . My visit statistics, as measure by SiteMeter, are about back to normal. Except, 20 - 25% of my current statistics include THIS BLOG, which I added yesterday. Discounting this blog, which did not exist before last weekend (and which I started as a result of last weekend), my numbers are down 2...

More from their bot. Hi there, Thank you for your honest feedback regarding our status page. We are constantly working on improving Blogger, so we will certainly keep this in mind for the future. Thanks again for your input, and thanks for using Blogger! Sincerely, Blogger Support I think this one was responding to my earlier: A lot of people depend upon http://status.blogger.com/ to find out about problems like this. Wouldn't it be a good idea to either update that, or take it offline? Right now, it shows a status of Update, 5 minutes later: All fixed! Posted by Pete at 16:46 PST I wonder if calling the status page "Blogger Status" was entirely a result of the name? The initials BS seem too good to be true. >> Top

Of my dozens of problems reports, submitted by both email and from the Blogger Help webpage, I received several form notes: Hi there, Thanks for notifying us of this problem. We have rebooted the machine that was causing these errors, and you should now be able to both view and publish your blog normally again. If you continue to have trouble, please clear your browser's cache and cookies, then log in to Blogger again. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Sincerely, Blogger Support So what do we have on Blogger Status ? As of 12:30 PST, the most current post there is: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 Some users are currently getting “403 Forbidden” errors when viewing their blogs, and “Permission Denied” errors (or variations thereof) when publishing. You may recognize this problem from Monday. The offending server is being replaced and then shot. We’ll let you know when things are back up. Shouldn’t be too long. Until then, affected blogs will be unavailable and unpublis...

See these Blogger Support tickets: [#415414] Forbidden / Permission Denied [#416206] 403 Forbidden [#417267] 403 Forbidden See these discussions: Blogger Support Forum Blogger Support Forum Blogger Forum Blogger Support Forum Current open issues . 5 years later, I figure out what "403 Forbidden" really means .