Blogger.com problems

Apologies to anyone whose had a problem accessing these posts lately. I've been unable to post on blogger.com for the last day or so, and so has every other user too! That's a pretty serious problem and there are many upset users over on the forum. Posting now is very, very slow and intermittent with many error messages (which indicates an entry hasn't posted when it has)

Of course, it's a free tool, so do we have any rights to be upset? I don't really know, but I think it's a warning sign for Google (blogger.com owner). This is not the first problem, and notifications about the problems are very poor. Gmail has also suffered problems. I'm not sure Google has yet come to terms with what is expected of it (even if services are free) as it massively expands these services around the world.