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Blogger Woes

I have been having multiple issues with Blogspot for almost two months now. 

I access the website from my laptop and it was working fine, till I wrote that "Cone of Silence" post. Since then, I can sign into gmail, but it always says "The webpage is not available" when I attempt to sign into blogger account. 

I have tried fiddling with the settings, changing browsers, uninstalling and re-installing Chrome but the situation has not changed. If I directly feed my blog URL into the browser, it loads my blog, but the blog does not display correctly. I can visit other blogspot hosted blogs, but cannot leave a comment on any of them. It gets mad when I specifically want to leave a comment and can't get through.

I have been posting from a fairly public setting since then. I find a quiet time spot in the computer lab and post my thoughts. If you have noticed, the font on every post for the last few posts is different. I rarely preview what has been posted, and I only see it when it shows in my feed reader. And I do not access any other blogs from there.

I contacted the network administrator, but I do not want to lead him to my blog. Blogger is not a blocked website in our office unlike some other hugely attractive time suckers and so whatever is happening is some technical thing specifically happening to my laptop.

I have been very recently considering migrating to wordpress. I have three major problems:
1. I can't sign in and post on my blog from my own laptop because blogger does not load.
2. My blog does not display correctly on my laptop.
3. Cannot leave comments on any other blogspot blog.

And going to wordpress would solve 2 out of 3 problems that I have. 

What do I do? 

The other thing I have been thinking is the creation of a dummy blog on another gmail account I have, and then showing that to my network administrator for solution. This way I can not reveal my actual blog, and if the problem solves there, it will be solved for every other account, right? (But blogger won't load for this account either.)

Comments

  1. Mina1 January 2014 at 07:27

    Blogspot has been my personal enemy and loather eversince I got the tablet. Am perfectly fine with that (lie) so far I can still post some comments (am persistent to the point of annoying even blogapot to let me upload comments).
    I have no ad- or assvice as regards your problem. I would love it if you moved to wp, that way I could follow you on my wp reader, which would be easier for me. Selfish, you say. Yes,that would be the appropriate word for this particular circumstance. Otherwise, I am a saint. Honest. i am. :-)

    Happy new Year! Gotta go to sleep now though. May 2014 be kind and nice to you!

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  2. battynurse1 January 2014 at 12:00

    Hmm. That sounds like a pain and I'm fairly clueless about how to fix. Although the idea of a dummy blog sounds like a possibility.

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  3. areyoukiddingme2 January 2014 at 07:15

    Around here, we seem to have a problem with Chrome and Windows 8 compatibility. Obviously, I haven't tried to access my blogspot blog lately, so I don't know if I have any problems. Maybe it has to do with all of your Google accounts merging into one unlovely place where they know everything about you. When I access, I sign in to gmail, then have to hunt down blogger to get to post anything (by other Google Services, I think it's called). Anyway, not a huge Google fan, but I don't care for Wordpress either! Good Luck!

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