A Black Hole of Blog Maintenance

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Recently I've had comments from readers that a couple of functions on this Blog aren't working.  One is the Comments function; the other is the Automatic Email Notification function initiated when a new Blog is posted.

I did exploratory research on the Comments function, which revealed that problems are not only relatively common on the Blogger platform I use, but slow to be resolved.  I decided to follow a recommended alternative, which is to bring in a third-party platform to manage Comments.  More research, and the result was Disqus.  (It's pronounced "discuss", which makes sense, not "discus" which doesn't. Which didn't stop me from calling it "discus" for quite some time.)  It's a highly rated platform in both popularity and satisfaction.  Plus, a bonus for this non-tech person:  "It only takes minutes to get up and running." 

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Today I decided to spend only minutes of blogging time to get Disqus up and running, and share the process.  Let's see.  Every hour is made up of minutes, of course.  So to translate the ~4 hours I've spent so far to get Disqus up and running, that would be......240 minutes, a virtual black hole of time.  Believe me, you don't want me to share THAT!   


And it's not exactly up and running.  It should be that anyone who reads my blog is able to Comment at the the bottom.  Not there yet.  Here's where it stands:  If you click on the individual blog title, the word "Comments" will appear at the bottom. You can click that word to read and make comments.   However, if you click on the Blog Archive by month and scroll through the posts,  the Comments function does not appear.  I don't know how to fix it. It's going to have to do for now. 

As to the email notification not working, I've done preliminary the research for a third-party solution.  So far, none have said anything about being up and running in a few minutes.  My email notification list is small.  An option is to have my own Group Mailing list in my personal email and do it myself, by hand, so to speak................and TAH DAH!!!!  In that space of time, LITERAL minutes I've done exactly that!  Done and done.

Blog Maintenance is as finished as it's going to be for now.  Good enough is good enough.  If it doesn't come right, I'll uninstall Disqus and figure out something else.  In the meantime, I'm