Blogger glitches

What do you do when you realize that one of your recent posts that did have comments shows 0 comments? What do you do when you notice that one of your posts is missing and better still, what do you do when you realize all your blog posts have disappeared.

I’ve experienced the first scenario and (fingers crossed) hopefully will not see the other cases in my blog. Based on whatever little research I did following this event, turns out Blogger always had such issues and the blogger help forum is inundated with such queries which happen on a regular basis. I wouldn’t be too surprised if this is the case with platforms other than blogger as well.

That reminds me – sometime in February the gmail blog had a post about a gmail issue where 0.02% of gmail users found their gmail empty when logged in. I was completely taken aback reading this and 0.02% is quite a bit given the large number of gmail users. I’m sure none of us can imagine something like that happen to our accounts – can clearly see how crazy it would drive us given that we depend on it so much; the moment you log out of it, you want to log back.

Now coming back to the current issue about content on blog disappearing. It is reported that this could happen when the user tries to change the url, export it to another domain and other things that I don’t completely understand. In my case, no changes were done at all. Though it was frustrating in the beginning, I’ve decided to have a copy of all the posts that I put up and will put up. After all, you don’t want to spend time and energy to do something you really like and see it vanish into thin air someday unable to retrieve it from anywhere.

For all the bloggers out there – I am prepared to deal with this if it happens again and at a larger magnitude. Are you? It’s time you are.