The Real Blogger Status

Several bloggers are suggesting that the caching problem experienced by a number of bloggers in the UK and Europe may not be resolved, as previously thought. If you're experiencing this problem, please provide diagnostics in a comment below. We'll start this over, so help us out here. Everybody can subscribe to the comment thread for this post , to track this. Where are you? Country and city is appreciated. What ISP do you use? What browser and operating system (name and version please) do you use? What is the BlogSpot and domain URLs of the blog involved? Is it your blog? A log from either PathPing (preferred) , or from TraceRt (useful still) , would be very appreciated. If possible, join the discussion in my forum (approval for membership required, be patient please). >> Top

If you're in the UK / Europe / Middle East, and viewing your blog, and you refresh the display - maybe because you published a new post, or changed the template - and you think that what you're seeing now isn't quite right, it may not be your imagination. We have various reports from UK / Europe / Middle East bloggers of seeing old blog content, periodically, when refreshing their browser. Some, maybe not all, seem to report their blog published to a custom domain ie Google server. The symptom here resembles the presence of an upstream cache , but the cache may be in Google physical space. Today being Patch Tuesday, and with this problem having apparently started in the UK / Europe, one might think of Microsoft Updates as being a contributing factor. But with the comments below mentioning Firefox and Safari as much as Internet Explorer, that's not a strong probability. Only time will tell whether bloggers in the Americas, and later, Asia, are also affected. If you...

Several bloggers in the UK are reporting inability to access any BlogSpot blogs. For right now, please use a proxy server to access all Blog*Spot blogs. And read BHG Resources: My Blog Is Gone for insight into diagnosing this problem. And find or start a thread, and post diagnostic details, in Blogger Help Group: Something Is Broken Where are you located, and what ISP do you use? What operating system and browser do you use? Can you provide a PathPing or a TraceRoute , log to assist us? >> Top

Bloggers in the UK, using BT as an ISP, report their computer freezing when accessing Blogger wizards. >> Forum thread links: bX-*00075 >> Copy this tag: bX-*00075 >> Top