Problem with Blogger!
Monday, February 23, 2009 Posted by Piera Jolly
Here's the Blogger Help Forum link if you want to read about it or post yourself: http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/topics
UPDATE: It looks like the problem is bigger than just Followers being deleted. Something is going on with comments too. Not sure yet what is going on, but Blogger in general is just acting very strange.
UPDATE: Ok, the problem is not that the Followers are being deleted-they have all gone from Public to Anonymous so you have to go to your Dashboard and scroll to the bottom and click on Manage Followers. From there you have to change each one from Anonymous to Public and that will fix the problem. I just changed everyone back so I am following everyone again.
Make sure that you do this too or that entry for contests won't count because I will not be able to see that you are following.
UPDATE: Here is what Blogger is saying about the problem (taken from the Help Forum link: http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help-troubleshoot/browse_thread/thread/b1c638731a27ba37)
Hey folks,You may have noticed the number of your public Followers has decreased
over the last few hours. We are in the process of integrating with
Friend Connect.There is small set of users that already use both Blogger Following
and Friend Connect. To avoid linking the profiles of Blogger and
Friend Connect users without their permission, we have set these users
to "anonymous". They are still following privately and will able to
make themselves public again.With the official launch of the Friend Connect integration, we will
communicate with the affected users to encourage them to reset their
relationship to public. To reiterate, the number of Followers has not
changed, and we believe that the launch will improve the visibility of
your blog and community. We will post more details on Blogger Buzz and
here as the launch approaches.Thanks for your patience,
Gatsby
The Blogger Team
February 23, 2009 1:30 PM
I am so glad you said something.... So, I am having an off day and while I am typing this lengthy blah blah blah post I notice that I lost 10 followers. My mood gets worse and now I think I'm really loosing "it". "It" being the ability to entertain in any manor. I will keep checking back to see what is going on. :D
February 23, 2009 1:54 PM
Thanks for the info. And for following me publicly again!
February 23, 2009 2:10 PM
yes, grrrr! i just noticed that i have lost a handful of my followers too :( i didn't even check to see if i have unknowingly stopped following anyone... i am still following you, it appears :)
xo,
erika
February 23, 2009 2:17 PM
I know...I was throwing a pity party on my blog because I had dropped so many followers......I am glad it wasn't just me.
February 23, 2009 2:28 PM
I've lost two today, but I can't tell if they actually stopped following or if it is due to the bug!
February 23, 2009 2:36 PM
This is a bummer, hope they fix it! I just changed all mine tho.
February 23, 2009 2:40 PM
Thank you for your tweet! I noticed the same problem today! I will add you again.
February 23, 2009 2:50 PM
OMG! Thank you for posting this because I LOST a whole bunch of my followers and had no idea what happened.
Weird...
February 23, 2009 2:58 PM
Just found this on barefoot mommy...
"I heard that if you're following 'anonymously' that your being deleted."
February 23, 2009 3:01 PM
What a royal pain in the arse!!! ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!
Thanks for the info!
February 23, 2009 3:58 PM
how crazy! thanks for letting us know!!!
February 23, 2009 4:16 PM
lol... thought I was really offending some people.. Thanks for following me again! lol...
As for me, it looks like I didn't lose any of those I was following.. but I will be keeping an eye on it!
February 23, 2009 5:00 PM
Thanks so much! I was freaking out as I lost 12 followers! Dang Google!
February 23, 2009 8:50 PM
Thanks so much for keeping me updated. It appears I am still following you -woo hoo. I did lose one follower :( at my new blog. Please consider following me there too! I could use all the followers I can get!
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February 23, 2009 9:27 PM
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February 23, 2009 9:42 PM
i not think you were following me but here is mine http://liza767.blogspot.com/
and i still following you :)
February 23, 2009 10:44 PM
April just told me about this--I was really getting bummed out! I was already following you but it doesn't appear that way on your follow list. I'll click follow just in case (you're still following me though:))
February 24, 2009 4:11 AM
I hope it's fixed soon and I'll check to see if you are gone from following me.
February 24, 2009 7:19 AM
THANKS for posting this, I started with 45 followers and than suddenly there were only 32 and I wondered what happened.
Now I know.
February 24, 2009 12:27 PM
Thanks so much. this explains a lot!!!!!
February 25, 2009 10:57 AM
atleast there's a solution to the problem. It would really suck to have had to follow all the people over again and vica versa