Adios, Blogrolling

Posted on September 17, 2010 | Comments Off on Adios, Blogrolling

Blogrolling has died again for the umpteenth time and until I can get TFG to explain to me why setting up my own via the Links category on the dashboard here sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t, there won’t be one here for you to use. Sorry about that. Stand by, however, biplane lovers, for another, really kewl picture of a biplane—the old Brit Swordfish. (And, no, I’m not going to link to Blogrolling. If it’s been a POS for me, lately, why should I direct you there?)

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0 responses to “Adios, Blogrolling”

  1. Dick Stanley's avatar Scott Chaffin | September 17, 2010 at 9:16 am |

    Wait, what? What doesn’t work? Your built-in Links widget is displaying over there on the left, at the bottom. Send me an email.

    We’re getting old, pard. Bloglines, my favorite, just blew itself up, and I’ve been reading about the Blogrolling problems in a lot of places. That leaves Google Reader, and I haven’t found a way to integrate that into anything, though I’m sure it’s around somewhere. Point being, though, it seems like RSS is going away in favor of instant comms like Facebook and Twitter. Which sucks goat rollers if you’re a reader and not an twitchy ADHD type.

  2. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | September 17, 2010 at 9:21 am |

    It displays now. It didn’t before. I’m fine with it as long as it keeps displaying. Altho I do wonder why the type is so much smaller than on the rest of the page? BTW, I learned how to use it with the blogs at WP dot com. I wasn’t sure it would work here. Glad to see it does. I’ve had it with Blogrolling, good (as well as free) as it used to be.

  3. Dick Stanley's avatar Scott Chaffin | September 17, 2010 at 9:56 am |

    Probably just needs some styling. I’ll look at it later, see what I can do.

  4. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | September 17, 2010 at 12:14 pm |

    Now it’s refusing to load the latest fifteen or so links. This thing is almost as pathetic as Movable Type. Almost.

    And as soon as I wrote this it started loading them. Is this system sentient? Easily embarrassed?

  5. Dick Stanley's avatar Scott Chaffin | September 18, 2010 at 9:25 am |

    I tell you this almost every time we talk about it: it’s not the software; Yahoo has a caching system that takes some time to catch up to “real time.”

    Patience, grasshopper, or a new host.

  6. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | September 18, 2010 at 1:17 pm |

    Hmm. I think this is the first time you’ve made it clear. As I’ve said before I’d go for a new host if I could be relatively certain that it would last as long as Yahoo has. Not collapse like Blogrolling, etc.

  7. Dick Stanley's avatar Scott Chaffin | September 18, 2010 at 2:19 pm |

    Viz Yahoo, I thought you had some multi-year contract with them?

    I made the font bigger on the links.

  8. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | September 18, 2010 at 2:39 pm |

    Contract expires next year, along with the domain, which I have to remember to renew. Plenty of time to think about a new host. While we’re at it, tell me again why we have to keep the old MT version. It’s become a spam magnet.

  9. CGHill's avatar CGHill | September 18, 2010 at 9:02 pm |

    I never did like the WordPress handling of links. When I was running Movable Type, I did the blogroll by hand in the sidebar; at the switchover, I just pasted it into a separate page and left it there.

  10. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | September 18, 2010 at 11:59 pm |

    I never could figure out MT. But I didn’t learn how to make a WP blogroll until I started two other WP dot com sites. I’m glad to see it works the same way here.

  11. SnoopyTheGoon's avatar SnoopyTheGoon | September 19, 2010 at 8:49 am |

    Why I couldn’t figure out the reason to switch from Blogger….

  12. Dick Stanley's avatar Dick Stanley | September 19, 2010 at 12:39 pm |

    The only thing that made me leery of Blogger was that button at the top that lets readers decide that the blog needs to be behind a warning firewall. Although the only person I know that it’s happened to flings four-letter words in his posts like raindrops from a thunderstorm, so he probably deserves it.