Google Bought Blogger, and Now It Sucks
There are many things that suck in my life right now--job searching and apartment searching would be at the top of that list--but the sheer lousiness of the Blogger Beta interface is the most needlessly annoying.
Far be it from my to claim that the old Blogger was bug-free, but here's how it's working, ever since I got a gmail invite. The Blogger log-in page instantly de-recognized my Yahoo!mail address, even before I set up my new gmail account. After I set up my gmail account--in my real name, which was the whole point of getting the new email address--the Blogger account automatically set the login name to this real name. Annoying enough, but since the displayed username and email were still pseudonymous, I figured that "only" Google would have total control over my internet activities.
Here's the extra-annoying part: since I have this new sort of Google-tagged Blogger account, every single time I try to get into Blogger, I get shunted over to the Blogger Beta login page, am forced to try to "switch over" into a Google-supported Blogger account, have to sign their bloody "Terms and Conditions," am told that "they are unable to fulfill my request to switch over at this time," and THEN I can get into my old Blogger account.
I think I've agreed to their terms and conditions about four times by now; the more I have to agree to them, the less willing I'm getting to abide by them. Way to chase customers away, Google-owned Blogger Beta.
Far be it from my to claim that the old Blogger was bug-free, but here's how it's working, ever since I got a gmail invite. The Blogger log-in page instantly de-recognized my Yahoo!mail address, even before I set up my new gmail account. After I set up my gmail account--in my real name, which was the whole point of getting the new email address--the Blogger account automatically set the login name to this real name. Annoying enough, but since the displayed username and email were still pseudonymous, I figured that "only" Google would have total control over my internet activities.
Here's the extra-annoying part: since I have this new sort of Google-tagged Blogger account, every single time I try to get into Blogger, I get shunted over to the Blogger Beta login page, am forced to try to "switch over" into a Google-supported Blogger account, have to sign their bloody "Terms and Conditions," am told that "they are unable to fulfill my request to switch over at this time," and THEN I can get into my old Blogger account.
I think I've agreed to their terms and conditions about four times by now; the more I have to agree to them, the less willing I'm getting to abide by them. Way to chase customers away, Google-owned Blogger Beta.
Marilee Scott 4:59 PM
4 Comments:
I don't understand this, but it doesn't sound good. How is blogger beta different than blogger? I thought google bought blogger a while ago. (I don't have a gmail account, so maybe that's why I haven't run into this.)
Do you sign out after using gmail? It sounds like Blogger sniffs for a gmail cookie and assumes you want the Google login interface. You're being "remembered" on Blogger even though you don't want to be.
Typepad's $5 a month, if you can't take the Blogger any more.
Maybe I'll trying getting rid of all my cookies. And yes, Steve, I'm thinking about Typepad. All the time.
Sorry for replying so late: all of my network protocols mysteriously got hashed, and I've spent the last four days talking to tech support people. (One suggested I buy a new modem, another tried to sell me Windows XP, another suggested I needed to reinstall, oh, everything, several others washed their hands of everything...)
I need to sort out this google empire thing, though.
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