So TypePad had some more problems over the weekend. Since I don’t tend to blog over the weekend, I didn’t even notice, except my Mom asked me about two disappearing posts…
Apparently I was in the minority, as quite a storm ensued in the blogosphere. Many folks experienced severe withdrawal and high anxiety at not being able to blog and lost posts. Lots of criticism of Six Apart (constructive and otherwise).
While I agree that there really is no good excuse for so many problems in such a short period of time, and hope that Six Apart gets its act together, it occurs to me that folks need to remember three basic things about computing.
- We have choices. We can switch platforms — blogging, browser, whatever — if we don’t like what we’ve got. May not be easy but so it goes.
- When a system goes down, and they do, just go do something else for awhile. There is a world beyond blogging 🙂
- Back up your blog. It’s that simple. Then it won’t matter so much if/when your blog service has a problem.