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.

'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.

Friend Connect integration issues:

• Currently the Friend Connect settings page will display in the same language as the blog hosting it. We are working on a fix to have this page reflect your default Blogger.com language.
  

• Following a blog with the 'Add from URL' feature in your dashboard currently doesn't work with the eight Indic languages. We should have this resolved shortly once we get the proper translations, however you can still follow a blog directly if the gadget is enabled.

• Some users with a rectangular Blogger profile image may notice size distortions in Friend Connect. We are working on a fix.

• Following doesn't currently work if you have an iGoogle gadget in your layout. We're working on a fix, but in the meantime you can remove any iGoogle gadgets from the Layouts | Page Elements tab.