Blogger Comments Frustration

I have two blogs hosted on Blogger.com.  I have this one and my 365 Photo blog.  While I'm not anywhere near as active as some bloggers, I consider myself fairly active and consistent.

Which brings me to my frustration.

The folks at Google run this blog site, and like almost everything else "Google", we (the public) are their beta-testers.  Every time they roll out a change in one of their multitudes of applications, it just happens.  No fanfare, no input from us, no warning, no nothing.

Recently, they incorporated a better WYSIWYG entry system for their blog posting.  Yeah, it does have some better features, but it's also a lot more "buggy" than the old way is.  The cursor tends to show in one spot while you actually start typing somewhere else.  Inputting a picture is a whole 'nother nightmare.  Sure, you can drag them where you want them to go, but only if where you want them to go is all over hell.  Sometimes it takes me 10 minutes of frustration just to get 4 pictures to stop and behave in the right place.

The latest?  Comments.

Comments is a huge thing for bloggers big and small alike.  We like to see that something we wrote or posted gets a thumbs up or thumbs down from a reader.  We see that we have comments and we like to see who it was and what they had to say.  Likewise, when we choose to take the time to comment on someone else's blog, we are taking time out of whatever we were doing to make that comment post.  It means the post touched us in some way and we wanted to share it with the blog owner.

Now all of a sudden (this week) blog comments are all screwed up.

Comments we post don't show up.  They show up when we post them but are missing the next day.  The comment counter under the post shows that we have comments, but when we click on it we find that it's empty.

Come on Google... Give us a break.  We know you're the only truly free blog game in town, but that doesn't mean you can use us like lab rats.

Does it?