blogger comment length restriction

It seems that blogger now has a comment length restriction of 4096 characters.

"There is a flaw in Blogger comment code, that makes the deletion process abort, with large comments. Spammers were exploiting this flaw, to create undeletable comments. Blogger is protecting us from undeletable spam comments, by preventing long comments"
- nitecruzr

It would be better if blogger fixed the flaw in their comment code. Some bloggers like to discuss issues at length.

how to back up blogger

I couldn't get the official backup method in blogger help to work at all --> error message when I tried to save the new backup template

This advice from kookosity worked for me. ie. I could back up my entire blog but not the comments.

Hard to figure why google doesn't provide a decent backup service. Does that make them evil?