Dear Blogger,

I have to be honest with you my friend, you're really starting to get on my nerves.

The thing is, I don't understand why you're treating me like this. What have I done wrong? I thought we had a good thing going over the past couple of years.

In case you don't remember me, I signed up with you almost two years ago for your free blogging tools. Man, those were good times. I had four blogs going at once, do you remember?

Things were going so well, I signed up for your Pro service. I had never purchased a subscription on the Internet before - you were my first. Ah yes, the Pro service gave me so many more features with big promises of more to come.

And then you married Google. I didn't mind, Blogger, really. I loved Google too. You, me, and Google - what a team we all were together!

But lately, you have been cold and distant. You cancelled the Pro service (but you did send me a free sweatshirt). There have been no more new blogging features in the past 12 months. I've been waiting for things like categories, comments, referrer tracking, and trackbacks. But you've really fallen behind in that area.

But what really proves you don't love me any more is how you've disabled my blog's RSS feeds on a few ocassions. You promised those of us who were previously subscribed to the Pro service that our existing RSS feeds would be unaffected. But the quality of your RSS service has decreased significantly.

I'm not even talking about the fact that you don't offer RSS feeds to any of your free users. Although I disagree with the tactic, you are free to run your business as you see fit.

What I am talking about has affected me directly over the last two or three months. A couple of months ago, several of my Blogger RSS feeds stopped working one day. When I logged in to my Blogger account, I noticed my site preferences had been changed to Atom. Now I hadn't changed them, so I assume you accidentally overwrote my previous settings. Now here we are again this morning, and one of my Blogger RSS feeds has stopped working. How am I going to keep any regular subscribers if my RSS feed is sometimes unavailable?

Is this a sign of things to come? Are you going to slowly break my RSS feed until I relent and use Atom? Atom is not even a stable spec yet. Why are you forcing me to use it? Blogger, why hath thou forsaken me?

If I don't hear back from you, I will know that you don't really care about me. That's OK. I've found dasBlog to help me get over you. But I really wish we could remain friends.

Best regards,
Scott