Blogger's new messed up interface

 

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is the poor grammar statement that comes to mind when looking changes in the interfaces  - the graphic user connection - we use to us popular internet sites or sometimes computer based programs.

Recently Google who own the longstanding blogging service known as Blogger have totally overhauled theirs with more of an eye toward mobile use which seems odd when you bear in mind most blogging is done on devices with a actual keyboard and a fair sized screen rather than a smartphone.

One criticism has been how it handled what can be hundreds of previous posts when it comes to being able to search and update information such as links which as anyone whose been blogging for a good while knows happens all to frequently.

In the past you could easy search from the  newest post in groups of twenty five or more  so you could look by date order but the new interface only gives you the option of loading additional groups in batches to the most current or searching by tags which is not very helpful.

Another is the line spacing which is double where sometimes you want to have text immediately below or to the side of an image which it no longer does.

Because it uses lots of different cloud based bits it is very fickle when it comes to loading up and sending back to your preview which increased by about one fifth the other day how long it took me to make a entry.

HTML isn't everyone's cup of tea but anyone who is heavily into design uses html templates and writes code that this doesn't properly support in what it calls HTML view thanks to auto indenting which should be disabled in html mode as it messes up the strings that make the code work properly.

I know sat there with your iPhone10 you wouldn't use it but desktop folk do and we're the bigger group in blogging rather than using things like Tumblr which are more mobile centric for short blogs.

I've used it sometimes to copy the whole page layout over if I needed to remake it and then tweak the new version rather than remaking the post by scratch all over again.

It even messed up my time zone settings so posts that are scheduled for specific days don't come out unless I refix all of that by hand.

It's still full of bugs but they've removed the old interface before fixing glaring issues and that's what has been frustrating many of us in the last few weeks.