We'll fix it when we get a chance.
And worse yet, the easy editor pencil is gone, and I use that constantly.
Ugh. Blogger.
Update.
Well, save or the edit pencil being mysteriously missing, which is something I use a lot and really like, we're not quite as screwed up as we were.
Why did the edit pencil disappear?
Also, we've had to put up a new photo on the header. In the whole process, the old one evaporated, although I don't know that I don't like this one better actually.
All email subscribers, please be aware that as of today, you'll be getting notices of email updates via Follow.It rather than through FeedBurner, which is how it used to work.
The reason for that is that Google, which owns FeedBurner, is wiping out its email subscription feature.
For some time there's been a new Email Subscription Gadget up, but the old one also was up. I don't think anyone subscribed via the new one since I had it up, but as of today, you'll have to use it if you want to be updated by email.
I've been using the Follow.It email update personally since I linked it in here and I like it. About the only difference I've really noticed that may catch you off guard at first is that it also has some news links at the bottom. Well, it would, as its own service and is free to the Blogger. It has to pay for itself somehow. Otherwise, it's at least as good, if not better, than FeedBurner was.
We hope you continue to enjoy the blog and don't dislike the new email updates. When Blogger announced that it was giving FeedBurner the ax, we considered simply giving up blogging as most of our daily visits come from people who subscribe We looked at moving this to a new blog on a different service, but decided not to do that, weighing in favor of simply giving up the blog instead. Finding this service allows us to continue on.
looks like it might work. The new link to subscribe is over on the left column. I should like have test driven this on a different one of our blogs, but I didn't.
I haven't migrated any of the old emails over yet, which will take awhile. Right now, I have it up as I'm testing it on one of my own emails.
Anyhow, the old blog may live on after all, no thanks to Google.
Lex Anteinternet: Subscribe by email "gadget" going away.: Google seems pretty intent on destroying the Blogger format, which means that for people like me, who have blogged on blogger, we have a cho...
A followup on this item posted yesterday.
Google's detraction from this blogging platform takes place in July of this year, so hopefully a fix is found in the form of a work around before that. Right now, there seems no clear option.
If that's the case we basically have to start a new blog on World Press, which would be a series of new blogs really given as we have multiple ones, or give up blogging entirely. We're leaning toward the latter.
My prediction is that this is the end of blogger. Nobody in their right mind would create a new blog using blogger that laced a "subscribe by email" feature. Somebody might figure out how to do a gadget for it that you can program in, but new blogger blogs are, and now should be, a thing of the past.
Google seems pretty intent on destroying the Blogger format, which means that for people like me, who have blogged on blogger, we have a choice of ultimately finding a new blogging service (which is what I think Google would like for us to do) or continue to try to find work arounds.
Over 1,000 people subscribe to this blog by email. Come July, that feature will be dysfunctional thanks to Google:
FollowByEmail widget (Feedburner) is going away
You are receiving this information because your blog uses the FollowByEmail widget (Feedburner).
Recently, the Feedburner team released a system update announcement , that the email subscription service will be discontinued in July 2021.
After July 2021, your feed will still continue to work, but the automated emails to your subscribers will no longer be supported. If you’d like to continue sending emails, you can download your subscriber contacts. Learn how
So, starting in July, your email subscriptions won't work any longer.
I'd suggest you opt for the RSS feed if you receive this by email so you keep getting the blog, if you like the blog. I'm sure a lot of people will simply drop off.
In the meantime, we'll look for a replacement gadget, but even though the work around allows for a new system, I'm not going to hand enter over 1000 email address as I do have a full time job, etc. You'll probably have to resubscribe if you like the blog, which is a good reason just to opt for the RSS feed.
And we'll look for an alternative platform, although we hate to do it as we do like this platform. Or frankly we'll ponder, if this and other things are going to destroy these blogs, doing what Google apparently wants us to do, and simply quit blogging.
