Two words: Word Press. - Robert Sanzalone

Indeed it is. - MG Siegler

I noticed that while trying to check Twitter's blog. I thought even that was down at Twitter. LOL - Rubin Sfadj

Wordpress is one word :P - Yaser Sulaiman

And I was just to write a much-overdue post in Blogger. Now I have an excuse not to. Thanks, Blogger! - Dave Roth

wordpress, expression engine I vouch for them, blogger nah - Dobromir Hadzhiev from twhirl

something Google has is down?! - BCK from twhirl

Blogger used to be much worse 2 years ago. It's gotten much better in the last few years but still I think WordPress is probably much better. I've been threatening to jump for years but then after they improved their system I held off. The spam comments are really starting to get to me though and I'm not sure Blogger is really planning on doing anything about the spam. - Thomas Hawk

blogger as free and flexible platform is much more close to ideal than wordpress in both incarnations (worpress.com is too rigid, and wordpress on your own /3rdparty hosting is more about time/money investment) - A.T.

It must be Twitter envy. - Brian Sloane

I was just going to ask about it. I tried commenting on a post on the Blogger platform, opening our blog. No luck. - Alex Williams

Thanks Yaser. Kinda knew that. ;-) - Robert Sanzalone

WordPress is great and all but keep in mind self-hosted blogs go down all the time. I haven't heard many complaints about Wordpress.com though. - Shey

I couldn't agree with Robert more. WordPress is your friend. - Sandie Law

I was waiting for the "this is why you should to switch to wp" comments. - Mike Fruchter

You know what I'm going to say here, Louis, so I won't even say it. I'll just think it. ;) - Cyndy

Shey: Of course, you're wrong on this :) self-hosted blogs do NOT go down all the time, unless the person who manages it is someone who doesn't know anything about coding/hosting - directeur

Hell, it's even effecting the content already hosted on my own server. - Michael Beck

Shey, my personal self-host only goes down when I break it myself. Then again, I pay more than $4.95 a month to have a decent host with extraorinary up time. I've learned that lesson. - Cyndy

I am on blogger too. I must say though that my uptime is better than most of my self hosting friends. The big difference is that blogger fixes itself. - Seth Gottlieb from twhirl

The Import from Blogger feature in WP is very nice - well working! If you guys want a self hosted blog which can be protected against slashdotting effects, go and give Drupal a try. - ※Fu※

Textpattern FTW :) - directeur

@directeur @Cyndy Unless you're tracking your blog's uptime, how do you know it never goes down? My self-hosted WordPress blog has 98.55% average uptime in the past month. Almost all of the downtime has been 15 min or less. - Shey

Blogger is back up. Woo. - Louis Gray

@Shey: I pay a good hosting company for this, and I made evrything for caching, and other notifications stuff (I'm a developper actually and an ex computer science teacher at univ. too)... so say I'm a lil' bit lucky :) - directeur

I don't know how reliable this site is - http://uptime.pingdom.com/site... - but Blogger hasn't dipped below 99% in the last couple of years for a full month. - Gary

That Pingdom link says downtime of 1h 24m today. - Louis Gray

Google should buy Blogger and make it reliable.. Oh, wait.. - Paul Buchheit

paulbucheit++ that's pretty funny... except it's true ;) - dave mcclure

+1 for Paul's comment, made me laugh.. :) - Derek Collison

Does anybody wonder why Twitter doesn't scale? It was created by the same people that created Blogger, which had a horribly inflexible back-end and was technically just crap. (Blogger is still crap, but whatever.) - sebmos

@cindy @shey -- what web hosting companies do you use? I signed up for dreamhost last year when they had a special of $10 for the whole year, and they seem pretty good. I also run my own server, which, upon cursory inspection from monit e-mails, has a downtime of about 5-10 minutes per month ~ 99.8% up (excluding the day or two several months ago where I messed up the DNS entries)) - Robert Felty

Blogger isn't down, it's over. WordPress is the real platform ;) - DAVE ID