Comments on: Google Drops Bomb On Blogspot Blogger Blogs

By: Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:08:30 +0000

You have raised some good points, my suspicion is that the primary objective with this change is to mitigate blogger spam.

By: mothership

mothership — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:32:12 +0000

I am having NIGHTMARES trying to get my OpenID to link back to my blog - no idea why. I mainly got it as a way to try and comment on Blogger blogs but now it seems many of them only want a GoogleID (boring!) or even worse I get a constant error message the minute I click on the comment box No idea what's going on. motherships last blog post..Guest Blogger

By: Will

Will — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:29:28 +0000

You know Matty, I have given in a bit in that as more and more companies consolidate. I just went to a Yahoo owned site and my password manager brought up six Yahoo login choices for me. It is almost impossible to avoid these days. Frustrating, but reality. Although more of these sites are allowing you do have a login just for the site. What I really did not like was having to use one main Yahoo login for any site owned by Yahoo. Or to have to login with a Google main identity anytime I went to any site owned by Google. They have gotten better lately about letting us avoid that.

By: Matty Byloos

Matty Byloos — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:48:40 +0000

Will! I had noticed that about the flickr account -- though I very much on purpose have avoided this site. Had to log in to see someone else's pic at some point, and noted the yahoo element. I think people should be able to leave a comment using whatever ID they wish to -- especially considering those individuals who are interested in being accountable and who identify themselves with their real info. Matty Bylooss last blog post..Mitchell Says, Welcome to My Study

By: Will

Will — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:55:44 +0000

You are correct, Juliet. And I thanked them here. It is nice when the raised voices of the peasants get heeded!

-Will

By: Crafty Green Poet

Crafty Green Poet — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:59:04 +0000

As far as I know this problem with Blogger has now been fixed, there was a lot of comment on the blogger user forum and they changed it.

By: Will Taft . com » Blog Archive » Google Backsteps!

Will Taft . com » Blog Archive » Google Backsteps! — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 23:02:37 +0000

[...] has taken heed of everyone who wrote articles like mine criticizing their recent decision to eliminate non-Google urls from Blogger Blogs. Now you can once [...]

By: Will

Will — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:34:53 +0000

Hi Rick. I don’t like the pop up box commenting systems. From what I have read, many others feel the same way. Some say they just automatically go away without commenting anytime a new little window without all of their browser controls pops up. I looked at the Halo site and it appears that this is the only way their system works. Do you know if it can be installed to work normally?

By: Rick Williams

Rick Williams — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:35:38 +0000

Here's the simplest post to fix this problem yet: HaloScan.com I use it on my blogspot blog with awesome results: check it out!

By: Will

Will — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 20:04:56 +0000

Thanks for that link, Anna. That is the way I used to do it and can again just for Blogger Blogs if necessary. I have not given up just yet to find a way to make it work the way it should! But if we can’t find a way to get the name link to work and Google does not rescind their boo-boo, then we will have to go back to the html way.

The deletions I meant are only the couple where all my comment says is something like “Just another test”. Just don’t want the other commentators to get annoyed by them!

-Will