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In menu Settings -> Dirscussion Settings -> Other Settings, the square for ‘Users must be registered and logged in to comment’ is unchecked. Why is that option not functioning anymore?
For now I ask commentars to leave the e-mail-field empty and for that I removed avatar-showing.
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Are you talking about commenting system at Blogger? Well, I don’t want to take up space here talking about Blogger (because it would not be fair), but you can enable Disqus or any other commenting system at Blogger.
As I already mentioned, there are several other issues within the blogging world, so no, I am not suggesting that Blogger is a solution. But things have changed and WordPress.com (note, wordpress.com) has had a consistent policy issues for a long time now. This thread is nothing new, there have been several such long threads in the past. As far as I am concerned, it all started with when wordpress decided to go social by introducing Reblog feature (the one today is the rebirth of what they introduced earlier). If you’ve been here for a while, than you may have seen my posts in the past.
I’m not here to bash WordPress but only identifying that things change and these companies have their right to move with the changing times. We may not like the change but we are not the ones who hold the decision to change when we use services. Look at one of the tweets by Matt, he’s saying he sees no jump in the commenting stats. So, what does that tell you? He’s looking at the overall picture and not this or that thread of people complaining. They know they don’t have systems down, so whatever is not working, it is not working according to you and me, and not their perspective. The systems are up and running and that’s all that matters, rest is all part of the improvement/change process.
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Several people are reporting that disqus and alternatives haven’t been working right with blogger recently.
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@ruthcatrin, you said Blogger force-changed several people’s themes recently. Was that reversed? That would be a big deal for me here, since my blog depends on a very visible difference between “my” stuff and a particular set of stuff I am quoting. Has this ever happened at WP?
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To my knowledge no, though most folks just made the corrections nessecary themselves when they discovered what had happened.
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OK. That assumes the underlying interface was not touched and one could correct. With an off-the-peg theme there is only so much one can modify.
The point is that bloggers need to feel confidence in the guys who are managing their interface. With WP they no longer do.
WP is no longer a company, in Apple terminology, that is focussed on making great products. It is one that is focussed on future sales to advertisers and shareholders. Apple became the world’s largest company by scorning the second objective and focussing only on the first.
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What it looked like to me, was that Blogger modified the base theme (instead of creating a new one) resulting in people loading up their blogs one morning and things looking different (even people who’d modified them to custom). So in most cases they were able to either modify the “new” theme to match their old, or they picked a new theme all-to-gether.
Blogger allows a HUGE amount of modification to the base themes (unlike most wordpress themes), you as the blogger have access to the HTML and they even have built in tools to customize things ALOT (colors, fonts, ALOT) . This is very cool, but it wasn’t worth the hassle that Blogger is becoming as far as I was concerned.
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The problem I’m having with WP.com is that I’m not even a WP.com customer, and I don’t wish to be a gravatar customer any more, but I can’t delete the accounts and they are requiring me to use the accounts to comment on other blogs even when the blog owner doesn’t require it. And then they created accounts in my “name” without telling me or giving me veto or even allowing me to ok a TOS. And if I understand whats happening correctly I’m not the only customer this has happened too. People who only ever signed up for Gravatar now have WP.com accounts whether they want them or not, with out their approval, or ok, AND THEY CAN’T DELETE THEM.
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From what you describe, Blogger has some annoying issues that, with a bit of tweaking, can be resolved.
Whereas WordPress now has some annoying issues that no amount of tweaking by the users can resolve.
I know which sounds like a better situation to me.
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Why doesn’t WP focus ENTIRELY on users, and on threads like this? Then it might become a great company.
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some of it was tweakable yes, such as anything with the themes, alot of it was not. I’m not saying wordpress.com is better, infact my blog’s not on wordpress.com because after playing around with the interface I didn’t like it at all, but unless Google gets its act in gear and stops trying to turn everything into Google+ without regard for whether or not things actually work Blogger is not better.
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I know someone on Typepad, she likes it, but I’ve never used it or even played around with it so I don’t have any experience with it.
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Typepad has long been gone. There are only three blogging services out there providing relatively similar service: wordpress.com, blogger and tumblr. If you are a hobby blogger sharing things for everyone in general, than those are the three free services you can choose from. Otherwise, there’s wordpress.org and several other content management systems out there for professional bloggers.
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Hold on, TypePad isn’t “gone”. Major blogs I read are hosted there. I even have an old one. Why gone?
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They have changed hands not too long ago. I don’t think their free/micro site is inviting enough for continuous free blogging. But you can try. BTW, sooner or later they’ll be shutting down this thread because apparently it is getting off-topic. There’s an off-topic section here which would be suitable for such conversations.
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I hate to say it but just because you don’t think its inviting enough doesn’t make it “long gone”. They ARE pushing their paid plans, but thats not the same thing.
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