All I Want For Christmas Is A New Management Team At Blogger

I have slightly over 100 blogs on my Blogs I Follow list but sometimes when I look for blog updates there aren't a whole lot of them.  Sometimes there are none.  This has been going on for a few weeks now.  It was especially apparent this past weekend.  I just assumed that everyone was busy decorating their home or out shopping or something.  I then started noticing when I went to visit a blog or two that there were recent posts I hadn't seen before.  I've also been having trouble joining to follow blogs & trying to delete a few.  I indicate that I want to Stop Following, I then get a message that I no longer am, but sure enough, there it is still in my blog list & I continue to get updates I don't want.  And you would think when a person decides to no longer manage their blog that it would drop off your blog list or that you would at least be able to easily delete it, but that's not the case ... at least not for me.  It remains fixed on my blog list.

Then there's adding blogs.  I've found some really cool blogs recently that I have joined.  I indicate that I want to follow.  I get a message saying I'm following.  However, when I look on my Blogs I Follow list, those blogs aren't there.  Every great once in a while I get a notice in my blog updates that the owner of that blog has made a new post but in usually I do not.  I've started bookmarking these blogs so I can go to them every day to see if anything new has been posted which is a ridiculous & oftentimes time wasting thing to have to do.  While back on these blogs I click to follow them again & it's like I never clicked it before.  I get the "you are now following [whatever the blog is]" message but again never get the updates & the blog never shows on my Blogs I Follow list.

I tried to email Blogger about this issue but as some of you already know there is no way to do this.  I did, however, find a sort of blogger help forum & posted a question there yesterday morning.  Lo & behold, yesterday afternoon I checked my blog updates & there were a ton of them going back several days that I hadn't seen before!  Not only that, all the new blogs I had joined recently were all showing up in my Blogs I Follow list & the ones I had been trying to delete "forever" were no longer there!  I thought that perhaps the notation I saw on the blogger help forum was true ... that Blogger employees monitor the site & respond to questions.  I thought some dear, wonderful employee had fixed all these problems for me & I could finally live my blogging life without further frustration.

As The Beatles sang long ago, I should have known better.  After spending about an hour going back several days to read many, many posts I never saw the first time around, I left the computer to make dinner & then after dinner came back to refresh & check for further updates.  The new blogs I had joined within the past couple weeks were no longer on my Blogs I Follow list.  The blogs I have been continually trying to delete still appeared.  There were no new updates from anyone & the new ones that had appeared earlier ... the ones I spent about an hour reading ... were no longer on my update list.  I did not go so far as to succumb to weeping, wailing, & gnashing of teeth but I was on the brink.

Has anyone else ever had these problems?  Were you able to get them fixed?