Published by Deborah on 22 Sep 2005 at 07:19 pm
My Blogroll Plays a Magic Trick
Yesterday, I set up a section called “What I’m Reading” and decided to upload the cover pic of a book I’d bought on Tuesday. When I rebuilt my index page, I noticed that my blogroll had disappeared.
This isn’t the first time for the disappearing act. It disappeared after I hardcoded a link into my sidebar. Both times, my blogroll reappeared after a couple of hours. At first, I thought this was a Movable Type glitch. Then I saw a post on Melly’s blog, complaining of the same thing.
Is there a server issue with the Blogrolling.com server? I don’t know. Melly tried emailing them three times, without success. She eventually hardcoded her links into her sidebar, and I’m thinking of doing the same due to the eclectic nature of my links.
Lee Carlon on 23 Sep 2005 at 1:53 am #
I’ve heard of this happening to a few people.
Couldn’t tell you what the problem is though.
Lee Pletzers on 24 Sep 2005 at 8:14 pm #
often my blogroll would vanish for hours and other times it would take forever to load and the blog blog wouldn’t load until blogroll was loaded.
I removed it and use wordpress links and a bit of hand coding to get what I have now.
Works great.
Deborah on 24 Sep 2005 at 9:07 pm #
I haven’t had any experience with my blog getting hung up by Blogroll . . . yet. But I’ll be removing it soon because I want to organize my links better. I wish MT had the same blogrolling feature as WordPress.
Marti on 29 Sep 2005 at 4:40 pm #
I’m on Blogger (’cause it’s free and I’m always broke LOL) and I have the same thing happen.
I’ve asked several other bloggers who are on different formats, and all say it glitches from time to time, so I think it is from the blogroll end, not anything you did.
Glitchy blogroll or not, I like your blog!
Deborah on 01 Oct 2005 at 8:44 am #
Hi, Marti!
Glad you could stop by, and thanks for the compliment.
I haven’t decided if I’m going to give up the Blogroll feature completely as I have to handcode the links into the template. Doesn’t leave much room for spontaneous linking.