What the blip?

So I checked out blippr last night, after seeing a random news link that it had been bought by Mashable. It had a sort of Twitter-like appeal, so I went ahead and joined. I refrained from blipping everything in sight, so as to not spam my poor Twitter followers with my blips. Blip is a funny word.

Anyway, I already blipped the site itself, so they know my opinion in 160 characters or less. Nonetheless, let me take this opportunity to expand on that opinion.

Good God almighty, I don't think I've ever seen a site as buggy as blippr.

I'm no site development expert, but I've been around the world wide web quite a bit in my time. I know a fucked-up site when I see it. Maybe it's just me, but blippr has some strange quirks. Most are just weird: My homepage kept saying I hadn't made any blips, and showed nothing in the field. But when I click on my profile picture (which for some reason won't properly upload), it shows all the blips. My personal favorite was when, instead of saying I had 0 blips, suddenly I had -2 blips. Blippr, your mathematics are indeed flawed.

At first, I blipped a couple games and didn't put reviews for them. I just hit the space bar so it would think I typed something. Later on, I tried to review these things properly. The box came up and I typed something, then hit submit or whatever. Instead of being like, "You already blipped this thing" or "error: duplicate" or something, the dialogue box just kept re-popping up all empty and ready for me to type in it. It was like a robot stuck on repeat query. "What did you think? What did you think? What did you think?" I had to go back and delete my previous empty blip before it would go back to being sane.

One really annoying glitch was when I connected blippr to my Twitter page. There's a dropdown menu that asks what format you want your blips to be tweeted in. I think there's four options, maybe five. Well, I picked one option, clicked save, and it was all "Ok, your changes have been saved!" Great, except that the box had reverted back to the default option and my tweets were coming in not how I wanted. Good thing it's a format I can live with; no matter what I tried, I'll be damned if it ever worked.

The idea behind the site is cool, and it has potential to be not only addictive but useful. However, until they can fix all the random weirdness, I won't recommend it to very many people. While I'm at it, why is there no "it was ok" option in the blip menu? It goes straight from "like" to "dislike". Some things just don't evoke that strong of a feeling within me. I'd like a neutral option please. =p

~Gretchen aka The Coconutter~