My 911 site post briefly (hopefully) on hold, due to nightmarish Squarespace manlfunctions
Friday, April 9, 2010 at 11:58AM
Wasilla, Alaska, by 300 in Squarespace nightmares

This Squarespace..... AAAAAUUUUGH..... After spending well over an hour editing and preparing the 17 photos for my planned 911 site visit post, I have had to give up on putting that post up for now. This is because I have been working on uploading the photos for half-an-hour and have gotten nowhere, because, at it so often does, this quirky, awful, worst-piece-of-software-that-I-have-ever-dealt-with is acting up and making it, if not altogether impossible, horribly time-consuming to get even one image incorrectly uploaded.

I can't take the fight and delay any longer and so I am going to leave this post for now, come back in a few hours and see if Squarespace is behaving a little better. It won't be behaving well because, when it comes to dealing with photographs, even when Squarespace runs just as designed it is still a time-consuming, burdensome, wasteful, program that is five-times as slow and tedious as Blogger (I have timed it). But if it improves from what it is doing now to operating just five times as slow as blogger, I can still get the post up.

I have to get out of Squarespace and find a bloghost that is actually committed to to solving its problems and making itself a smooth running, efficient program, attuned to the needs of its customers - I have to, I have to, I have to.

As I have said before, it will not be an easy thing and it will take a couple of months and will lose me so many links and such that I have built up, but I have to go - if I am too make anything of this blog I must find a host that does not require me to spend two-thirds of my time fighting its quirks and inefficiences.

Anyway, I will get the 911 site visit post up as soon as is feasible.

 

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