Ruminations

Just came across a bad bug in Blogger Beta. Blogger Beta users, don’t use the Feed Page Element!

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Last night when I tried to look at this page all I got was this message: “We’re sorry, but we were unable to complete your request.” I don’t know about you, but messages like that, well, they irk me. So unhelpful just stating the obvious while not giving any clues at all.

I left it last night hoping it would all be fixed when I got up, so you can imagine the heart-sinking feeling I got when I saw that it still wasn’t working this morning.

Thank goodness for other users - of course I was not the only Blogger Beta user with this problem, and I found a post on the Blogger Help Group from another Blogger Beta user who reported that when they removed any feeds they added to their blog, voilà! everything worked fine again. So I took out the lint feed (which I added yesterday morning), and we’re cooking with gas once more.

I hope they fix this bug soon. I was really pleased to see the feature as it’s a very easy way of adding a feed to the page (you basically plug in the feed URL as a “page element”) but needless to say it should be avoided at the moment as it will make your blog inaccessible!