Google’s “Blogger in Draft” introduces open id for comments, yet they have taken away the “other feature” from Blogger comments. If you have recently commented on a blogspot blog you may have noticed that, you can no longer leave your URL as well as your nickname.
Sometime between yesterday and today Google’s Blogger removed the “other feature” from comments and replaced it with a “nickname feature.”
While you can still leave your URL as a link, it has to be in the body of the comment. This has the blogosphere buzzing with many bloggers not too happy about the changes. I checked out Blogger Buzz and there was no announcement of this on there.
In my opinion this was a bad move for Google. What do you think?
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18 responses so far ↓
Wrote: Dec 1, 2007 at 10:42 am
I don’t like it at all. If I had any type of web designing skills I would leave blogger also.
Wrote: Dec 1, 2007 at 12:54 pm
I think Google goofed.
Thanks for commenting on my blog.
Wrote: Dec 1, 2007 at 1:58 pm
I’d say Beth. Big time goofed! oh and my pleasure.
Trish, Wordpress does not take any web design skill knowledge.
Wrote: Dec 1, 2007 at 8:15 pm
thanks for your comment on my blog today and your suggestion. I went to blogger and posted a complaint…
Wrote: Dec 2, 2007 at 3:16 pm
I think it’s a horrible move and once pushed to the wall for answers Blogger/Google, will invoke security reasons for doing so (Spam).
I thought it was a setting at first so I went in my test Blogger account to check and nope. It’s an unchangeable feature.
They just want everyone to play with Blogger. But WordPress is still the superior blogging platform.
Wrote: Dec 2, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Thank you so much for elaborating and adding to this subject on my blog post today. I hope this gets changed. I’ve more to say on this subject – deeper – tomorrow. I hope you come back to visit!
Wrote: Dec 2, 2007 at 10:12 pm
I ranted on it on my Wordpress blog, Rose… they are effectively going to cause some Blogger blogs to lose traffic, because many don’t know how to leave a link properly or won’t want to take the time to leave a link that way, so just won’t bother.
I cannot believe they did that.
Wrote: Dec 2, 2007 at 10:45 pm
I thought there was something different about the comment section, seems like a dumb move, and by the way, have you ever tried to get ahold of blogger, they dont seem to have an email address, you have to use their boards that no one answers, or am I missing something
Wrote: Dec 2, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Bob, hey I answer those boards. lol
You can contact blogger here. http://help.blogger.com/?page=contact
Wrote: Dec 3, 2007 at 8:12 am
I’m none too happy about this. I have voiced my concern at Google. If the feature isn’t returned, it’s off to WordPress for me!
Wrote: Dec 3, 2007 at 12:19 pm
WordPress is a better platform. But blogger is the most popular by far and it prohibits the interconnectedness so cherished by bloggers. If I can’t go see where my commenter is from or writing, it takes some of the allure of blogging out of the equation.
Wrote: Dec 3, 2007 at 9:00 pm
I’m not posting on my Blogger blog right now. I’m just checking my blogger account for comments. If I can do WordPress, anybody can
Wrote: Dec 3, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Hi Kathy, I think a lot of people will be leaving. The thing is though that Blogger has just introduced openid in draft that means those with Wordpress hosted blogs will be able to comment on Blogger blogs while signed into Wordpress. That is great for Wordpress hosted blogs, but not for us who are self hosted.
Dave, Different blogging platforms offer different levels of service. I would not say that Blogger is the most popular. According to blogging-business.info in the top 100 results for Internet marketing blog query the following platforms have been used.
WordPress – 52 results
Blogger – 11 results
Beth- I see you moved. Congrats on your new blog.
Wrote: Dec 3, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Well I meant to say in the free platforms. Most hosted platforms are WordPress, that’s without a doubt.
My arguement is that Blogger wants to force every to use a Google account or play in the Blogger Sandbox.
Wrote: Dec 5, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Even Matt Cutts uses Wordpress and he is the voice of Google!
I would like to move but will lose my links. Could not see the problem with the current system. Perhaps they could leave it but only for blogs that do not enable moderation.
Wrote: Dec 6, 2007 at 7:34 am
Rose, thanks for posting this. This situation has me very upset. I’m definitely on a hunt for an easy tutorial on how-to move my blog to WP. I have my own domain name, but it’s hosted on blogger. I haven’t found any posts that explain how to keep my current blog domain up and running while I’m moving my posts over to WP.
At the moment I’m very confused as to the best way of making the change without losing my current readers or causing my blog to go offline while making the change. I don’t know if I should get a brand new domain name hosted on WP and start from scratch or what to do.
Wrote: Dec 6, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Hello Lin, I think your best move would be to change web hosts from Blogger to another host. Once you have hosting set up, install Wordpress. There is a tutorial on my blog that will walk you through how to do this. You can then import all your posts from Blogger to Wordpress. Your old blog would not go down or would you loose traffic. (I sent you an email)
Wrote: Dec 7, 2007 at 4:43 am
This is such a bad move. And so transparent. To protect Bloggers from spam? They really must think we’re all retarded.