Google’s blog service, Blogger, has not been working since Wednesday: what happened? Where have the posts and comments gone? The platform maintenance, ongoing since Wednesday, is taking too long, while Google provides updates via tweet.
There is a large group of people concerned about the fate of their blogs hosted on Blogger: nothing works anymore since Wednesday, when Google announced some platform maintenance interventions that were supposed to make blogs accessible in read-only mode for about an hour.
Instead, many posts and comments have disappeared, and it is no longer possible to edit anything, write posts, or recover what currently seems to be lost somewhere in the galaxy of Google servers.
According to the scarce messages coming from the Blogger team, recovery operations are underway to retrieve all public material on the blogs and restore the general situation.
What happened to Blogger?
At the root of this problem, there was certainly a maintenance operation that went wrong, and specifically, it seems they were working to introduce a new graphical layout.
However, the urgency to restore everything has not yet been met, so Blogger accounts continue to be inaccessible: no blogger can currently access their blog’s back office.
There are numerous protests and requests for explanations posted by users on the official Blogger support forum.
Very few answers, mostly released via the Blogger Twitter account.
At the moment (4:20 PM on May 13, 2011), it appears that everything has been rolled back to the last stable version. However, this means that everything posted after the restoration date is lost: anything published on Blogger (whether photos, posts, or comments) after 7:37 AM on May 11 has been removed.
The only thing to do now is to follow Blogger updates via Twitter.
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