Blogspirit is laughably incompetent
by tdaxp ~ January 24th, 2008
Not only does blogspirit eat comments, the laughably terrible blog service provider now won’t even let me access my own blog! I can log in, receive email, edit the administration panel, etc, but going to tdaxp.com or www.tdaxp.com must times out.
This is from my home. I can access it from my office just fine.
Whenever blogspirit acts up in this sort of way, I think how many other people it’s also effecting. It must be quite a number.
Blogspirit’s service is slow and often hostile. Their “premium” support is a joke: you find yourself running in circles again and again. With the eaten comments, for instance, blogspirit first claimed that it didn’t happen, then acknowledges that it happens, then asks for evidence that it happens: and then repeats. This has been going on for more than a year.
I started this site on blogspirit because at the time blogspirit had the easier administration I can’t imagine that this is the case anymore. Simple things require complicated hand-coding of HTML plus blogspirit’s unique “smarty” template technology. Other things are just impossible.
And then there’s all the things that don’t work.
Stay away from blogspirit!
I think this is your...
January 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Hi from blogspot-universe!
January 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am
wordpress.com works just fine.
I still can't get proper RSS from blogspirit.
January 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am
The only thing really holding me up is comments: blogspirit's export blog function only transfers over the posts, so I would need to write a script or something to get the comments out with them (and then need to work out how to move those comments over to a new wordpress blog).
January 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am
You can't get an RSS feed of the comments?
January 25th, 2008 at 12:00 am
Younghusband,
One isn't available, but if I can pester them maybe there's a hidden one somewhere…
Thanks for the tip.