Still No Beta or The New Version of Blogger
Blogger Buzz proclaimed on Tuesday:
“The new version of Blogger in beta is dead!
Long live the new version of Blogger!”
Back in October, I like many of my blogger counterparts had to deal with blogger being down in dramatic fashion. Which the engineers responded:
“I, like many of you, will look upon this past week with irritation, disappointment, and maybe even a bit of anger.”
“…perhaps your own experiences to know that Blogger had a significant number of unplanned outages this last week.”
“In the long term, we’re developing a new version of Blogger with some great new features that is built on technology and hardware that has proven, Google-quality reliability. The current Blogger infrastructure is “albeit in a very Lincoln’s axe way” the same that Google acquired four years ago. Sure, we’ve built on it and expanded it significantly since then, but the truth is we’ve more than out-grown it. The new version is ground-up more scalable and less error-prone.”
Later, in November:
“Today we’ve reached another milestone in our transition to a better Blogger: all new accounts are being created on the new version of Blogger in beta. This hugely exciting for us, because now all new users will get the benefits of the new Blogger, the foremost among them being drag-and-drop template editing, post labels, and privacy controls.”
Now, along with information about switching team blogs, they announced the death of blogger in beta and the birth of the new blogger:
“The new version of Blogger is metaphorically bursting with features, from the big guns like drag-and-drop template editing and post labels (which are perfect, by the way, for indexing the 131 historical figures you may have written about), to little polishes like a better-designed Dashboard or that you no longer need to solve a word verification CAPTCHA to post a comment on your own blog.
We’re excited about the new version of Blogger, both for what it can do now (which also includes access control for blogs and better input fields for post dates) and what we’ll add to it in the future, now that we have a new, stable, powerful infrastructure to work with. We’re done with “beta,” but we’re far from done with the new Blogger.”
So, today, after backing up my template and ready to take the risk of making the switch, I got this message from blogger:
Could not switch you to the new blogger
I guess I will just have to keep this wish for the new year!
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