An angry review of "New" Blogger, AKA "Blogger Beta"

It's the single worst piece of software in the history of the internet. We're doing this review in the hope that anyone else who, like us, now spends hours searching Google for answers to why bits of Blogger don't work any more work finds it and posts a comment in agreement. It's the only way to make it feel better.



Blogger's always been slow and rubbish, especially publishing via FTP to your own server and double-especially when you make a minor template change and have to republish the entire site. Now it's worse. Blogger has removed the percentage display from the 'publishing' screen, so you no longer have an idea of how long it's taking, or if it's even working at all (as it often just doesn't).



And now the process pauses if Blogger decides its taking too long. So you can't just set it off publishing and go off to do something less mind-numbing than staring at a screen that never updates. You have to sit there and click the "continue waiting" bit whenever it decides to pause the process. This makes publishing a large blog UTTER TORTURE.



And if something goes wrong it says "Your blog published with errors". It doesn't say what the errors are so that you may rectify the errors. You just have to start all over again.



You also have to sign in using your Gmail email address, which, when your PC refuses to remember your login and password EVERY FUCKING TIME, means typing in your email address and password each time. Granted this isn't an inconvenience on the same level of not having any legs or bladder control, but it's still a huge pain when you update your sites and edit draft articles a few times a day.



As for innovations - Blogger now lets you 'tag' articles with its totally-different-sounding 'label' system. This is nice, although simply changing the tag on one article means republishing the ENTIRE blog. Which, as we've just pointed out, can take an hour or might not work at all.



You'd think that in eight years Blogger or new owner Google might've managed to make a thing better, rather than stripping away functionality and making it worse. But no. It's worse. And once you've switched to the "new" one there's no going back.



But Wordpress is too hard so it looks like we're stuck with it for now. Stupid internet.



New Blogger final score: "1/10 - "The single worst piece of software in the history of the internet" - Idiot Toys