Friday, June 05, 2020

A Forced "Progress" Weekly Link Round-Up




This past week has been frustrating, and it's all due to one thing: Blogger. Blogger hasn't changed its interface since before I began using it, so someone decided they really needed to do something about that. The first hint I received was a message from them when I logged on to write a post. One of those "friendly" notes that said something along the lines of "We're changing the way you're doing things, so you'd better take a look at it now and get used to it." I clicked on the link, thinking "how bad could it be?" (Stop laughing!)

Once I got used to many of the changes, I had to shake my head. Thank you, Blogger. It's now going to take me twice as long to do several weekly tasks as it used to.

Then Saturday, I kept getting this weird message about my field values being invalid. I didn't even know I had field values! I checked that out and discovered that I may not be able to create new labels (for unimportant things like authors' names) until Blogger gets that fixed.

And while I was wandering around deep into the settings of my blog, I discovered that Blogger had unceremoniously prevented me from getting moderation notices on my posts. I use "moderation light" which I won't go into in case the wrong people are actually reading this, and as I started going through all the comments that had been waiting for me for yonks, I felt steam coming out of my ears. But at least that's something I could fix.

Okay. Now that I've got that off my chest, I'm going to go read a good book. Don't you love it when the techies decide it's been too long since they've produced anything NEW! and EXCITING! and you're forced to go along with it whether you want to or not? Yeah. I thought so.

A quick check on those links, then it's off to my book I go. Head 'em up! Moooove 'em out!



►Books & Other Interesting Tidbits◄

►Pandemic Lore & News◄

►Channeling My Inner Indiana Jones◄

►Channeling My Inner Elly Mae Clampett◄

►Fascinating Folk◄


►The Happy Wanderer◄
  • Mount St. Helens is going green again.
  • Africans are building a Great Green Wall of trees across the continent to slow down the expansion of the Sahara Desert.


►I ♥ Lists & Quizzes◄



That's it for this week! Don't forget to stop by next Friday when I'll be sharing a freshly selected batch of links for your surfing pleasure.

Stay safe! Stay healthy! And don't forget to curl up with a good book!


13 comments:

  1. Uh-oh! I haven't made the switch to the new Blogger because I am scared of doing so, but I guess I will have to do so soon.

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    1. Maybe you'll be one of the lucky (extremely) few who will get a pass to continue using what worked well in the first place.

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    2. I do have a notice saying I have to change by the end of June so it doesn't sound like it unfortunately!

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    3. That's unfortunate. I will say this: you will get used to the changes. I've pretty much stopped swearing now. ;-)

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  2. I dislike it intensely! The new Blogger, that is. I can find nothing that improves upon the older version, but miss some of the options that I can't find and am frustrated with the more difficult, less friendly new version.

    Checking out some of the links now, so thanks!

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    1. Now I don't feel so alone. I've almost gotten used to it, but that doesn't mean I like it.

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  3. Oh, I feel for you, Cathy! It's so annoying when they start to 'fix' something, only to make it worse by far. And, as you say, there's nothing user-friendly - at all - about the 'new' Blogger. When I was blogging, I switched to WordPress for just that reason, but no company is great with that sort of thing. Now, I'm off to that underground chamber by the Western Wall. Hope it all gets easier for you.

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    1. When I first started out blogging, I kept hearing how great Wordpress was, so I went over there to give it a whirl. I couldn't make heads nor tails out of their platform, so I stayed with Blogger because I could figure it out.

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  4. Ah yes, progress! And there never seems to be enough warning! Hope you have a great weekend!

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  5. I know nothing of blogging, except the treats I get to read because of it.
    Lots of good links here. Love the joey who baas for food. And the book reviews and list.
    That bookbstore is beautiful, but makes me think one thing: It's not disabled accessible. But I can admire it from its photos.
    Like the Jess Montgomery article, love her two books.

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    1. I thought you might like that link to Jess Montgomery.

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  6. I like many links, including those about animals.

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