Site Maintenance: Blogger Follower Widget Removed Due to Not Being Able to Edit Site Template

Hi everyone. I had to remove the Follower widget towards the bottom right of the site. Apparently it was preventing me from editing the site's template in the HMTL editor I do daily in order to update the Featured Listings, For Sale and Music links above. I was going to add the widget back in but it appears it is no longer supported and has been replaced by a new Google+ Follower widget which would require me to change the site account to a Google+ account which I do not want to do at this point in time. I just wanted to let you all know why the widget is gone and if any of you are having a similar problem editing your template on Blogger, you now know why. Be sure to note how many followers you have before you remove the widget as you won't be able to get it back. I believe I was at 1021 blogger users. Not happy at the moment.

Update: BTW, people wonder why I continue to stick with Blogger. One reason: should something happen to me, the site will remain as it's hosted on Blogger's servers. The one thing that would need to happen though, is eventually the site would have to be set back to matrixsynth.blogspot.com so the site doesn't disappear if matrixsynth.com expires long after I'm gone. If you don't think it can happen, some great synths sites are no more including some linked here only within the last eight+ years. Drummachine.com, Analog Playground (formerly at http://www.keyboardmuseum.org), and most recently Korganalogue.net appear to be gone.  I had a list of sites I did track on the old MATRIXSYNTH site.   Might be worth a look to see who's left.  There's a MORE section after Yamaha in the MFG section, and a link to 404s at the very bottom where I put sites that died at the time.  That site went into hibernation after this version launched in 2005.