Enough is Enough

I am quickly losing patience with blogger.

Let me first say that I do not do well with change. I don't rearrange furniture on a whim. I don't do drastic things with my hair because I'm feeling adventurous. Only shame keeps me from clinging to fashions long past the point that they are ridiculous.

You get the picture.

So I resisted changing over to Blogger Beta, even though I was assured that my blog would not change. But, due to repeated and emphatic encouragement on the part of Blogger, I could resist no longer and made the change.

I hate it.

For some reason, no matter how many times I check the "remember me" box, I have to sign in every. freakin. time. Yes. I have cookies enabled. The same goes for commenting. Every damn time I want to comment I have to sign in AGAIN, and then my comment may or may not actually show up. It's maddening.

Also, for reasons I cannot for the life of me identify...I can't copy and paste text from one source to another, even if I use the control function. WTF???

Forget about trying to add a picture. It's an exercise in futility and insanity.

I flirted with the idea of changing blog hosts a while back, but ultimately, it was more trouble than it was worth. And there was that whole change issue. Despite the few little annoyances, I was comfortable here. But no longer. It's like living in a house where the faucets come off in your hands, and the toilet overflows every time you flush it and the roof leaks and the furnace runs when you turn on the air conditioner.

I'm not the most computer literate person out there, but due to having my own consultant at hand for the last 13 years, I'm a little more savvy than the average user. I should certainly be able to figure out how to copy and paste or add a picture without taking a refresher course in Blogger. The fault is not my own, I think.

This is beyond user unfriendly...this is poor design and execution, as well as a failure to properly test and assess the functionality of the product. It's a big picture issue, I think. Husband has been in computer programming and development for over 20 years, and I know that there have been times he wanted to bludgeon a member of his staff for making a programming change that was, in theory, sound, but when incorporated into the database, created a plethora of problems that were sometimes merely annoying, other times catastrophic. Said staff member failed to take the larger implications into account.

I know you get what you pay for. I have ridden the blogger gravy train with no complaint about the occasional glitch here and there and been grateful.

But enough is enough.

I have to find a new home. I hate moving. And now I'm grouchy.