I have tried to hold my peace about New Blogger but I do have a problem that no one else seems to mention. My Reading List has become completely unreliable.
I use to read daily from one TimeGoes By post to the next though not always non stop. Often I would write down the name of the last blog I read and take a break. For some reason with the new Blogger, the list seems to just shuffle unpredictably. If I stop on Hootin' Anni's blog, one would think I could pick up reading on the next one in line as I always have in the past. But no longer.
The next time I access Blogger, a blog I have previously read and commented on earlier is now at the top of the new post list and there are several unread blogs below it before getting down to Anni's. Come on. I have to scan the whole list every time.
I just hope I haven't missed commenting on your post but if I have, don't blame me, blame Blogger. Anyone else having this problem?
HUH ??
As I was coming through town the other day, I saw the remnants of an annual festival filling the streets. The main reason for the festival was cancelled due to Covid--the food and events---but the vendors had arrived and set up their wares. I was casually looking at the booths as I drove slowly by when I saw a sign that made me say--"HUH??"
The booth was selling, WEAPON CARRYING PURSES
Have we come to that ladies? So I looked it up on the Internet and there is such a thing.
Oh brother, if us gals don't have enough to lug around ;(
ReplyDeleteSue,
DeleteIsn't that the truth. My gun is so heavy that I would hate to carry it around with all my other stuff:)
I havn't noticed anything odd happening to my blog list, Patti. Touch wood! Routinely carrying a weapon around sounds like a very bad idea to me. Carrying a cell phone to dial 911 seems a lot more prudent. (Plus my marksmanship is not what it was.)
ReplyDeleteFlorence,
DeleteSo glad Blogger is behaving for you. You are so right, a cell phone should be our weapon of choice.
Patti, I think my “blog reading list” is set up the same as yours, blogs with new posts at the top. But I just noticed this morning—when you post a new blog, you go to the top of my reading list within the hour. But when someone like DJan from “Over the Edge” posts a new blog, it takes 3-4 hours before she goes to the top of my reading list. Why? We all I all use the same blogging platform (Blogger).
ReplyDeleteBTW, ever since Blogger switched to their new interface you can no longer change the background picture of your blog. My face in my blog’s banner is 3 years old, I was thinking of updating it but now I can’t. (I know I’m not alone, there’s a long list of bloggers with the same complaint.) I wonder if they’ll ever fix these things?
As for those gun carrying purses—I don’t carry a handbag (haha) but this still scares me. But if anyone deserves to carry a gun, I’d say women do.
Doug,
DeleteCould our different time zones make a difference? I have no idea. Hum, wonder if we can change our profile pictures. Mine is so outdated but maybe that is best:)
Oops--I miswrote DJan's blog "Eye on the Edge"--this is what happens when you read & post a response 10 minutes after waking up! BTW, I am against gun carrying--I liked what Florence said about carrying a cellphone instead :)
ReplyDeleteDoug,
DeletePretty sure she is OK with that. You are a follower. Me too on cellphone.
I really don't want to live in a world where people carry guns on a daily basis. Too many hot heads out there. The gun lobby loves us all scared of each other...it sells more guns.
ReplyDeleteI haven't noticed what you're talking about with the blog lists but I may just not be paying attention.
Jean,
DeleteTotally agree about guns. There are too many people who reach for their guns when angry. We are getting too wild west for me.
Same here, Patti. I haven't looked at my blogroll for a long time. And Doug, I like the new name you came up with. :-)
ReplyDeleteHaha! My apologies DJan, but if Trump gets re-elected, I think I'll change my own blog's name to that :)
DeleteDjan,
DeleteSure wish we could go back to legacy. I knew you wouldn't mind Doug's slip.
Doug,
DeleteHa ha, if Trump wins we may all fight for that name:))
My reading list started listing posts from a blogger that had not published for several years and no current blogs at all. That lasted for two or three days.
ReplyDeleteOlga,
DeleteOoh, that sounds really annoying. Looks like it fixed itself though so that is good.
I haven't noticed any problems with the reading list, but maybe it's a transient thing that just hasn't hit me yet.
ReplyDeleteI don't like guns. I like the comment that said carrying the cell phone and dialing 911. Yes!
robin,
DeleteHope it doesn't strike you. And Yes on cell phones over guns.
I have that issue as well. And I know I've missed posts because I'll read something and think, when did that happen so I go back to older posts and there it is. This new blogger is certainly not an improvement.
ReplyDeleteYikes, okay that seems a little extreme. However, I read a story about a 2 year old who pulled his mother's gun out of her purse (in a store no less) and shot her dead. So perhaps if one feels the need to carry a gun, a separate pocket is probably a good thing.
Eileen,
DeleteSo sorry you are having the same problem. I too hope I haven't missed posts because of it.
That gun story is horrifying. Often children shoot eachother. We just need to quit carrying.
No to the gun! Never, nope, not in this lifetime.
ReplyDeleteAs for blogger I have different issues daily. The ones I post are now sometimes working. I can not get email notifications when folks comment now. And you can't make the change in settings because it is "grayed out" I have not made peace with the new blogger. I may kill it though.(so much for rays in 6!)
Margaret,
DeleteI don't have that but I have heard others say they have had that problem.
Darn, looks like you will be cooking. Not even sure in (7) would have been safe. Wasn't game 4 however a fun one to watch?
My beef with new Blogger is the photos. At first I could really enlarge my photos (beyond xlarge) and was liking that for certain ones. Now, that option seems to have disappeared. I have changed my header with no problem. I just go to my side list if I want to read a certain blog. Otherwise, I skim down from recent to older. I definitely think they are some glitches! I can't imagine carrying a gun and would be worried if I was with someone who was carrying. There is already too much violence in this world. Better not to have the immediate option to shoot someone!
ReplyDeleteBarb,
ReplyDeleteYour blogger complaint seems to be the most common. Has to be tough on folks like you who post such cool photos.
You are so right on not good having the option of shooting someone readily available.
Like Barb I have the photo issue. I think the time it takes for the new blogs to come through may have be due to how we get them. My main issue is I like to refer back to older blogs with links and such (like to day I am referncing an od car accident) and the scroling down reuired is much more difficult than the page to page thing I used to do and the search function of the older blogs is terrible. I am very much not a fan. But I also am not knowledgable enough to move to wordpress on my own, even if i wanted to, lol. I would love to practice shooting as a skill or hobby at the range and ay do that but no,no gun carrying around in or out of a purse.
ReplyDeleteBarb,
DeleteMe too on wanting to move. So far I haven't enjoyed anything I would call an improvement with the new one.
Interesting you have the same problem as the other Barb. You are both from Colorado. Hope you are safe from fires also.
I think, in Texas, you would not be able to carry a gun in your purse
ReplyDelete...wouldn't that be considered a "concealed" weapon? Maybe, not sure. But you'd need a special license to carry a concealed weapon. Besides, too heavy. For home protection, yes in a drawer. But to carry in a purse, no. I guess, I would use a holster if it comes down to it...but, thank God, no need YET for public display !!!
As for my reading list, I use my phone now & reading list never worked. So, I have two pages of blogs I follow on my phone & read daily from there (sometimes, like yours, I know to check on Monday & follow up to read your reply later in the week.)
Anni,
DeleteHere in Arkansas if you have a permit you can carry in church. And yes they are too heavy for me also. Hope we never get the need to pack in public.
A friend of mine carries her gun in her purse all the time. I'm pretty sure there are women sitting in church every Sunday who are armed as are several men. Yes, we have come to this because there are some very dangerous people who are not afraid to attack people at random as we have seen on the news lately. I'd rather be armed and ready rather than be a victim. I believe most gun owners are very responsible and people would probably be amazed how many people are armed and not one single person ever gets shot. I actually feel safer knowing someone is armed beside me. But I grew up with guns and my brothers even had guns in their cars at school. There were never any school shootings back then, either.
ReplyDeleteSnickelfritz,
DeleteIt saddens me that people feel the need to day to be armed.
Pretty sad comment on our society if we've come to people carrying weapons -- yes, I know they already do in some states and I think it's sick. Obviously, I don't have one of those purses. I shot guns and did some target stuff when I was young but long since concluded there were better ways I wanted to spend my time.
ReplyDeleteAs for Blogger, my blog is pretty bare-boned so not a lot they can screw up. I should do more with my page and may get around to it one day as have only changed it a couple times or so since I started. Last time Blogger changed they reduced some of the header items to just regular size typing print which I haven't liked and don't know why they did, plus the color is poor now, too from their previous change -- not what I had at all.
As for now, my biggest complaint is I can no longer copy and paste from WORD to a new post. I don't know if it's a Word change or a Blogger issue. What that means is I have to line up the two pages and type it all over again. Given how I compose it's much better for me to do it on Word than in the Blogger New Post area, then copy and paste to Blogger to add labels, etc. before a final preview and scheduling for publishing.
Joared,
DeleteI thought I was bare bones also with few pictures but it found a way to irritate me anyway.
I use to do the Word first and don't know why I stopped. Now since you are having that problem, I am glad I no longer do that.
I don't have Blogger, so that is not my problem. As for guns, I don't own one.
ReplyDeletegigi,
DeleteThen you have no gripes at all today. Kudos.
My Blog List doesn't seem to be acting up. I do get a delay on DJan's Sunday post, which I expect to see fairly early on a Sunday morning if I am up soon enough. If it's not there I just scroll down the blow list to find the last post, click, and the new one comes up.
ReplyDeleteI want nothing to do with guns and it makes me sad to think that people feel the need to pack them around.
Linda,
DeleteGlad your method doesn't give you any problems. And yes, I agree that we have reached an stage where some find it necessary.
Weapon carrying purse? From what I've seen in movies most women carry a large enough purse and have their gun in that. No need for a special pocket. I don't have one of course and will never get one. We don't do guns out here. Farmers have them for shooting rabbits or foxes, occasionally for putting down injured stock. In towns and cities the only people with guns are criminals and police.
ReplyDeleteriver,
DeleteVarmint guns and for occasional mercy killing of animals use to be our only need for a gun. Times are sadly changing. Now here, people feel the need to protect them selves against criminals or the deranged.
P.S. I'm not having any problems with the new blogger now that I got used to it.
ReplyDeleteRiver,
DeleteSo glad you and the new blogger have reached an understanding.
I learned about those zipper compartments a few years ago. I had no idea. Pretty wild stuff.
ReplyDeleteSue,
DeleteYep, you have to be kind to those women with the strange zipper purses. Sure don't want to irritate one.
I guess there are improvements in Blogger, I just can't figure them out. There should be an older person option, don't people realize that older people HATE change?
ReplyDeletejoeh,
DeleteI know, in the beginning they gave us a choice but then they just stopped it cold. I was not amused.
Your struggles and mine sound about the same. I am plowing through it, but it is a labor intensive effort. But, I will conquer.
ReplyDeleteSusan,
DeleteOuch, so sorry. It isn't much fun is it?
I don't have a gun. But if I did, I would shoot the new Blogger!
ReplyDeleteTom,
DeleteHa ha, I could get behind that also.
I use Bloglovin' for my reading list. Being from Texas they'll probably come out with a pendant to hang your guns as a necklace.
ReplyDeleteBarbara,
DeleteHa ha, that gave me a good laugh. Thanks.
What has happened to our country? Carrying guns in a lovely looking leather purse seems very secretive and scary to me.
ReplyDeleteAs to the new Blogger. I honestly have found it much easier to post an entry than before but the whole template that I use is very simple (by my choice) so I don't have any comparisons with the problem you mentioned. It would drive me nuts too.
Ginnie,
DeleteI know. The whole idea of feeling the need to be armed I find really scary.
Glad you aren't having problems with blogger.
I'm sort of OK with the new Blogger, so far. I just go down my sidebar and it seems to be working OK. Have you checked your Layout and have it set to most recently updated for blogs on your sidebar? I don't know if that would help, but that's what I use.
ReplyDeleteAnd no, I definitely don't have a gun on me or in the house. Too spooooky.
I HATE the new blogger. I have the same troubles. There is so little talk about and with all the troubles I seem to have adjusting ... it just may NOT be worth it!
ReplyDeleteBlogger has been up and down over the years...nice to meet you in blogosphere
ReplyDeleteI can't post any photos on blogger when I'm using Chrome. I use Safari, but it just makes the whole process more complex.
ReplyDeleteBrits don't own guns at all.
I was in the Army and can shoot. But, you wouldn't want to be near me when I did. LOL
ReplyDeleteAnd PS: Boy do I dislike the new Blogger. I cannot make the banner image go completely across the screen.
ReplyDelete