Thursday, September 24, 2009

Blogger is broken - the undocumented 5000 post limit

Blogger has an undocumented 5,000 post limit. At least one of my blogs is well past that limit. Using the blogger dashboard I am unable to search for, view, or edit about 400 posts written in 2003 and 2004.

The bug was recognized in July 22nd 2009. At that time Google was "working on a fix".

It's almost October, so they may not be working terribly hard.

I came across this bug when I went searching for an old post on my 3G iPod -- and discovered it was AWOL.


Update: It's not fixed in draft.blogger.com either. The dashboard does display the correct post count of 5,336. However, if you have the 'show edit' feature enabled and you're authenticated, you can browse to older posts and edit them by clicking the 'pencil' icon.


Update 12/22/09: Still broken. Google broke radio silence to say they plan to fix this "early next year". I assume this means it will be fixed around June 30, 2010 -- about one year after Google broke the archives. A one year turnaround is pretty impressive - in a bad way.

Update 7/30/10: It's fixed! They did that very quietly.

Update 9/2014: No, it's not fixed.
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2 comments:

  1. GZ24/9/09 10:02 PM

    what are you doing to save / archive your posts off line?

    (apologies - I may have already asked this).

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  2. JGF24/9/09 10:49 PM

    I used to use a web robot (old term) to harvest the pages, but I've certainly gotten lax!

    Thanks to the good side of Google (Data Freedom group) you can export a blog as XML as well. That's probably the better thing to do.

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