The Real Blogger Status

In the late 1900's, people would find promises from Publishers Clearinghouse You may have won A Million Dollars! in their mailboxes. Some recipients of the mail would rush down to their neighbourhood car dealership, and buy the car of their dreams - so they could drive to the post office, to receive their first payment of the award, in style. This kept many repo businesses quite busy. Every month, someone posts a new example of paranoia, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken . Who is this ominous Follower, "uGotCrossedSon"? Am I being hacked? This is another example of needless worrying - and it's equal in reality to the PCH fraud.

This week, we're seeing a new flood of complaints from people who report I posted my comment, but it vanished! and blog owners, who report My readers report inability to find their comments after they are published. And no, they are not in my "Spam" folder. Why are all of these comments disappearing?

For over a year , I've been suggesting that the time for using Classic (HTML Based) templates has become a thing of the past. This month, we are hearing suggestions that we are truly nearing the end of support for the Classic templates. As many blog owners found out about the end to FTP Publishing , you do not benefit by waiting until the last minute.

The process of transferring control of a blog , from one Blogger account to another, involves 4 distinct steps, using 2 different Blogger accounts, alternately. If you do any step out of sequence, or if you fail to properly keep the 2 Blogger accounts separate, you end up with a blog successfully controlled by neither account. There are 3 ways to keep the two Blogger accounts separate - and the easiest yet most reliable is to use two separate browsers.

Many blog owners, mindful of the various ongoing problems with Following , fear loss of their Followers when planning migration of their blog to a custom domain . Various anxious questions about Following, and custom domain publishing, are seen from time to time, in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I? . Can I setup custom domain publishing, without losing my Followers? This is one concern where the perception is much worse than the reality.

We see evidence of confusion, from time to time, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , from owners of private and team blogs. My friends have contacted me this week (only one week after receiving the invitation to my blog), saying that they could only access it once with the invitation - and now cannot sign in. These blog owners fail to observe that membership invitations have an expiry date, to prevent unwanted sharing of invitations .

A persistent complaint, seen periodically in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken is I can't stay logged in to my blog! Like many symptoms of Blogger login problems , this complaint can have multiple causes.