A quick word of warning to any Blogger-based bloggers looking to switch from the old Blogger service to new Blogger. Don’t do it!
It seems more than a little buggy, and I’ve suffered from broken feeds (so I don’t imagine anyone else will be reading this without the feed links from bloggers4labour and tigmoo.co.uk!), as well as losing a post yesterday that I’m too lazy to write out again 🙁
Give it a few weeks for them to iron out the wrinkles. I know it’s hard to ignore the pretty baubles of tags and trackbacks, but better safe than sorry!
UPDATE: Thanks heartily to Mr B4L who spotted the problem here – New Blogger is allergic to smart quotes it seems (the 6699’s that Microsoft likes to litter your docs with) so an old post was monkeying with the feed.
Ta for the warning quite happy tmo stay with blogger though occasionally I cast a envious eys over at those wordpress blogs
Wow, that was quick. Good, I’m glad it worked.
Many thanks for the blogger nous, Mr B4L! I’m now all patched up and syndicating to anyone else as bored as me at 1am… Will hop over to the grumbling blogger support forums and spread your little tip to other needy souls. Cheers, John
Hi John,
Yep, something’s wrong with your feed alright. I can’t say exactly which of the problems shown when you try to validate it are the most important, but I reckon that if you looked at the first one, removed/replaced the quote it doesn’t like, and republished that post (actually, probably best to give the whole post a once-over), things could start to work… Let me know if you need any help. The B4L Stats page (which checks feeds every 10 minutes) will help you determine if it’s working.