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Friday, 28 July 2006
Advice Needed & Why Fix Something that isn't Broken anyway?
Topic: Arrrggh!

I used to love Tripod!  Until about 2 months ago......  until they decided to change almost everything about their system.  I had no problems with it and the few people I know that use Tripod didn't either.  Why fix something that isn't broken? 

The changes begin I would say in May or June.  For a month I was unable to see comments that had been posted at my blog.  Whenever the blog felt it was time for them to appear, they would and I would have three or four comments that I had never seen - sometimes from days earlier.  My Mother, who uses a Mac, can't even post a comment at her own blog, or any other Tripod site for that matter.  Mac's don't seem to be compatable with their new pop-up commenting system!  One of my aunts, has a regular PC and she can't post comments either.  The Tripod commenting system uses a "pop up" window and I think it has something to do with that.  The only logical thing I can think of explaining this, is perhaps if you have pop-ups blocked then you can't see the pop-up window????  I don't know - but it's frustrating as all hell.  

I also am unable to submit a link.  I used to be able to post a link and name it and the post would show a hyperlink, named as I wanted it named.  Now it just shows up like a regular link - showing the website address lit up - as if you were sending a link via email.  

To top it all off, I've lost two posts this week.  The first was on Wednesday and was about Sami's poison ivy.  I hit submit and the post disappeared.  I thought it was lost and was a little frustrated, but it wasn't a long post, so I included it in my 13 Thursday the next day.  But.....  today I was peeking over this past weeks posts and I found it.  It was between Sunday's & Monday's posts.  Don't ask me how it got there, because I couldn't tell you!  (I am going to edit the date so that post shows up today - as I don't think anyone saw it!)  The other lost post was long and more than frustrating!

So - I'm changing sites over the next few weeks and need your advice:

What Blog Site would you suggest and why?

 


Posted by chrisseas-corner at 7:26 PM EDT
Updated: Friday, 12 January 2007 2:29 PM EST
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Friday, 28 July 2006 - 7:38 PM EDT

Name: "panthergirl"
Home Page: http://thedogsbreakfast.blogspot.com

Friday, 28 July 2006 - 7:50 PM EDT

Name: "Thumper"
Home Page: http://kathompson.blogspot.com

Almost anything would be better than Tripod... Blogger, Typepad, and Wordpress are all easy to use and (imnsho) much better than Tripod... All the blogging fun without the ads and hassles!

Here via Michele's!

 

Friday, 28 July 2006 - 8:54 PM EDT

Name: "Carmi"
Home Page: http://writteninc.blogspot.com/

Blogger is a decent, free service. It's easy to set up, and doesn't impose a lot of rules or limitations on bloggers or their readers.

I've hosted my blog on it for a couple of years, and although I'm looking into my own domain, I would still recommend it for someone looking for a good basic environment.

Popped over from Michele's. I hope things smooth out for you soon.

Friday, 28 July 2006 - 10:16 PM EDT

Name: "Pearl"
Home Page: http://www.pagehalffull.com/humanyms

Saturday, 29 July 2006 - 10:11 AM EDT

Name: "RennyBA"
Home Page: http://rennybasblog.blogspot.com

I use blogger now and are satisfied. But if I had to start again, I would defenatly chosen WordPress!

Have a great end to your week, and welcome over today if you like to cast your vote for Blogs of Summer *wink* adm/common/js/tiny_mce/plugins/emotions/images/smiley-cool.gif" border="0" alt="Cool" title="Cool" />

Saturday, 29 July 2006 - 11:27 PM EDT

Name: "Froggie"
Home Page: http://flattenedfrog.wordpress.com

That sounds really frustrating with tripod.  I can completely understand why you would want to move your blog!!

I've used blogger and wordpress.com (the free one, not the self hosted one).  They both are great for free services.  Once in a while, blogger has issues, but has never lost a post or stopped people from commenting.  You have complete freedom with your template there and with add-ons.

Wordpress.com is great too... but more limitations with it.  Its very stable and allows for catagories and has very rarely gone done.  But... it doesn't allow javascript, pretty much any kind of add-on or advertisements (like google adsense).

Good luck with your future move!

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