Note on Format Adjustment and Blogger Comment Trauma

Thanks to a suggestion from WendyDavis in comments, I've adjusted the posting format to include more posts per page (ie: now 30) and to reformat (newish) posts to feature an intro and option to "read more". I'm not going to go through all 1500 or so posts and do the reformatting trick, but we'll see how it goes from this point.

As for the trauma inherent in the Blogger comment feature, I'm somewhat stymied. There are any number of options for posting directly, without going through the aggravation of the Blogger captcha. Of course, that means you're being tracked by the tracking bots and anything you say will be filed away in the Utah Warehouse by the NSA and doG knows what other security/surveillance operations. But that's true of any public comment feature, even if you use the "anonymous" captcha.

So I don't know the answer. If anyone has a functional suggestion/solution, I'm all ears.

C

I also put all the tags I've used in the righthand column for easy reference... or not as the case may be!

Housekeeping Note

Blogger comment software has been hiccupping and misbehaving lately. Some comments have been Auto-Detained by the software -- not by me -- and there they sit, belonely, until I notice and release them, a process which can take me much longer than it ought to. I tend not to see them for a ridiculous length of time (I get no notice, for example, that posts are being Detained, all I get is notice that they have been posted.) Other strange things have happened, including some kind of Auto-Edit by which whole paragraphs of comments are excised prior to -- or in some cases, after -- posting.

Be aware this is happening. It is not a deliberate -- or even controllable -- choice on my part, and there appears to be nothing I can do about it so long as comments are run through Blogger's software.

I'm becoming more and more annoyed with this situation, as I'm sure commenters are too. If someone has an alternative comment provider in mind, I'm interested in learning details....

Ché