One of the biggest cribs I earlier had with blogger was regarding adding photos to the posts – it was too slow and painful. Picasa (supposedly) allowed you to batch upload pics, but when you were done with uploading, you found that the batch size was limited to four (yes, a measly four!!) - all the other pics were silently ignored. From the web forums I gathered that this (limit of 4) was a long-standing and widely affecting pain point, but google wasn’t doing anything about it. If you wanted to insert a larger number of pictures, you had to manually select and upload the pictures one by one. This was very very painful, especially since I upload(ed) a number of pics in any post on my travel blog.
On resuming my activity after more than three years, I am happy to see the things finally improved. Picasa now actually allows uploading multiple pictures - there is still a limit of 20, but yet, quite an improvement. Though the remainder of the pics are still silently ignored. It would be good to have a warning message/pop-up telling me that only 20 pics will be uploaded.
Blogger now also allows uploading pictures to a post in batch (I am still to find the limit). This is indeed very welcome.
Moreover, if I click on a pic in a post, I get a picasa-like slider at the bottom, and I can scroll through pictures. I find that this feature is enabled for all posts 2007 onwards. Posts of 2006 and earlier, if I click on a pic, a new page is opened showing that one image. I may be wrong to think that the scrolling feature is new, but I really do not remember seeing it before my break.
2 comments:
See...even blogger is trying to woo you back to blogging :)
Now you should be here more often :)
@Puja: I am trying my best :-) Check out my travel blog as well, in case you haven't :-)
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