Blogger has failed to fix an annoying bug in the dynamic views templates for six months. About every tenth page view custom CSS fails to load, there is no menu, and the dock is empty. This makes all blogs look ugly, leaves users without navigation, and makes Google look bad. When that happens to you, just reload the page with [ctrl]-R or [shift]-[ctrl]-R once or twice and everything should get back to normal.
There is no other workarounds available at the moment except reverting back to a non-dynamic, traditional template, or changing the blogging platform. For us changing back is not really an option because we just got all of our 180+ blog posts fixed in this blog to work with the new dynamic views template. The risk of yet another critical bug appearing while Google is not willing to fix it makes changing the blogging platform the only viable option.
A similar incident happened in 2009. Is Google planning to shut down blogger? Does this imply that the dynamic views template will soon be discontinued? Why Google fails to react to the complaints they have received from angry bloggers? In any case, this is exactly the same kind of bad customer service that made us to ditch Google Books permanently in 2007.