We are in the process of integrating with Google Friend Connect, which may temporarily affect the Following feature for some users. Specifically, users who already use Following and Friend Connect may notice missing blogs in their profile, as well as a decrease in the number of public Followers on their blogs.

This is because we have set these users to "anonymous" to avoid linking the profiles of Blogger and Friend Connect users without their permission. They are still following privately and will able to make themselves public again.

After the official launch of the Friend Connect integration, we will communicate with the affected users and instruct them how to reset their relationship to public. To reiterate: the number of Followers has not changed, and we believe that the launch will improve the visibility of your blog and community. We will post more details on Blogger Buzz as the launch approaches.

new profile pic update issue 1325243

If you follow a blog with the Followers widget and then change your profile photo at a later time, your new photo will not be updated immediately in the Followers widget on that blog.

Google+ Followers Gadget for Dynamic Views

Some users who use Dynamic Views have noticed an empty space when they expand the Google+ Followers Gadget from the Gadget Drawer. To fix this issue, clear your cache and refresh the blog.

For instructions on how to clear you cache, see this help article.

Friend Connect outage 1957687

Friend Connect is experiencing degraded performance this morning which is affecting many Blogger blogs. This results in several known issues:

• Your Blogger dashboard will report you are not following any blogs.
  
• Recently created blogs will see an error in their Followers gadget which indicates "Community not found".
• Managing followers from your Blogger dashboard is currently not working.
• Adding social gadgets to your site will generate an error when the gadget attempts to display a preview, and you will not be able to complete adding the gadget.
• Following a site by entering the URL into your Blogger dashboard will not work.

The Friend Connect team is aware of the issues and is working on fixes. Your followed blogs will return to your dashboard when Friend Connect operation resumes. We apologize for the disruption.

Update: This has been fixed.

Some users are seeing an 'Operation Aborted' error message when trying to load their blogs from Internet Explorer. We're looking into this and will update this message when we have a fix.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Update (May 26): We are still working on resolving this bug. This only affects viewers using IE to view the blog; for right now, blog owners can either move the Followers gadget lower in their sidebar, or remove it altogether. Either action will eliminate the pop-up dialog box in IE.

We will update this post when a fix has been made.

Some users are experiencing problems with missing Followers on their own blogs, as well as others. We're aware of the problem, and ask for your patience as we investigate.

We've created a form to gather more information on this issue, and could use your help if you have a moment to fill it out. Thanks in advance.

Currently, when viewing a blog's Followers from your dashboard, the Invite your friends link will return an error when clicked.

You can still however invite your friends directly from the gadget on your blog.

'Canvas mode' is currently not functional on the Followers Gadget. We're investigating this and will post and update once we've isolated the issue.

Thanks for your patience.