My default browser is Firefox, but recent changes in the way Firefox displays this blog - but not the others - have restricted my ability to use it here, and may restrict your ability to see everything.
Comments
Comments are moderated by email, that is, I am notified by email and may allow comments, delete them or mark them as spam.
On the desktop version of the blog I can see them, but I cannot respond. This is what I see - and what you may see if you use Firefox and want to comment.
I am able to respond if I use the web version on my iPad.
Search
On the desktop version, the strip above the title strip, which should be a light brown colour, is white and there is no content. Which means I cannot use the search box, and cannot sign-in if I need to.
New Posts
I normally click on the New Post link in the same strip at top right, but that doesn't appear. I am composing this explanation using the Safari browser. However, in Safari I cannot add new images. There's an icon in the editing page to add an image, but when I click on that a blank window pops-up with no option to drag-and-drop, to select and existing image, or link to another web source image.
UPDATE: As you can see above I have managed to add an image. Fortunately as the user control panel is the same for all the blogs associated with this email address, I can go to the Modern Postal History (MHP) blog as if I am editing that, and then select this blog to do the editing or composing.
Whilst readers should only be affected by the first two of these, the restrictions on composing a new post or editing an existing one are fundamental to what is a very visual blog. If ti were a narrative things would be different, but you want to see pictures.
Trying to find the solution to this will not be easy (the italicised explanation above is a workaround which I would prefer not to have to use). I don't think I've done anything in the design or text coding (the html mark-up language which lies behind all websites) to change anything. It is possible that the fault lies in the way we have framed the URL.
The MHP blog started out as https://machins-on-cover.blogspot.com
This one started out as https://norvic-philatelics.blogspot.com (I think - it might have been norphil.blogspot.com), but to bring everything apparently under one roof, so to speak, the internet routing has been changed so that our shop and blog are accessed through the norphil.co.uk domain. This does not need to be a secure site because no personal information is gathered.
The shop(.norphil.co.uk) is hosted by a commercial platform which is secure, and the blog(.norphil.co.uk) routes to blogger, a Google-owned commercial secure website.
Whether this is the cause of the problem I don't know. I can still access all features of the Modern Postal History (MPH) blog, which is registered to the same email address.
If I have not resolved this by the time I should be writing about the next stamp issue, I shall so so through the control panel of the MPH blog until the situation is restored.
If you are experiencing any difficulties in viewing or commenting on this blog, please let me know in the comments and let me know by email what browser and OS you are using.
Thank you and sorry for any inconvenience.
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