29 May, 2006
Dear Blogger
Would you PLEASE write error messages that are useful? I've spent FOUR DAYS trying to sort out why my blog wouldn't publish. Every time I tweaked my FTP settings and attempted to publish my blog I'd get the following error:
"Your blog is under maintenance. Please try again after some time."
So, I'd wait "some time" and try again. Same error. I'd wait Some More Time, read the Blogger-help forums, do some more tweaking and try again. Same error. FOR FOUR DAYS!!! An email to Blogger Help got me the old Response O'Matic email.
Finally, in complete desperation, I dug way into the forum and found out that the problem isn't so much that my blog is "under maintenance." It's that I hadn't updated the FTP information for the blog, the archives and the site feed. OK, so that's a "well DUH!" to me (and I gave myself the appropriate slap to the head).
But, really, why have an utterly useless message about my blog being under maintenance when the message should be "your archive/site feed/blog information is incorrect" or some such. At least that would have given me an IDEA of all the places to tweak 'n' test.
Geesh!
Sincerely,
Vicster
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