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Can someone please advise if this “upgrade”is being fixed? Getting advice readers can’t comment on my blog still.
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I have emails this morning from people saying how frustrated they are that they can’t comment on my blog. None of them have WordPress passwords associated with this site–they just want to comment. Hoping this will be fixed soon!
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Just be patient. Matt will be along shortly to call you all stupid and close the thread.
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<B>@ teamoyeniyi</B>
WE are the UAT team, never forget that.
For nocies, UAT = User Acceptance Testing
THIS.
LOL.
That’s why we called “end user”. Hope they fix this “new feature” soon. Oh, I’m an ungrateful user.
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On a second thought, looks like wordpress.com isn’t satifisfied enought to be a copy-cat of tumblr, twitter and facebook (with its reblogging and like button). They’re trying to be a copycat of MULTIPLY too. Now everyone had to log in or create their own account just to comment on your post.
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I’m really not happy about this, seems like it’s already influencing the amount of comments I get and especially from loyal followers & commenters. Hope this update -which is more like a downgrade- will be somehow fixed or undone.
Seems like most of my readers that can’t comment, do have a hosted blog somewhere with wordpress installed in it, and somehow their email address is still linked to a wordpress account they don’t use/they are logged in but not on the main wordpress site. Please fix it!
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As more and more bloggers are discovering that their commenting system has been shot in the foot, I might as well offer up those step-by-step instructions for gravatar users again, if you want to post up an announcement on your blog.
(which I recommend doing, before your readers start ditching you)
I also recommend that you add the “meta” widget (with log in link, if you haven’t already), and you’ll probably want to move it towards the top of your sidebar, for convenience.
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I do not write a blog directed to only other WordPress bloggers or to bloggers in general or to Gravatar account-holders. I write a blog directed to ordinary people who are not interested in signing up for a WordPress or Gravatar or Facebook or Google or Yahoo or any other kind of account in order to comment on Torch Lake Views. No indeed. They will not do it. I do not blame them.
I moderate all comments. I can decide for myself whether to allow a commenter to be part of our little community.
WordPress should re-activate the discussion option that I chose for my blog.
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I just want to add my unhappiness with having to log into WordPress in order to comment on a WordPress blog. I happened to have an account which I created some time ago and then didn’t use — took me awhile, but I found my username and password and was able to comment. I can see the problems for blog owners and other commenters though — makes the process very cumbersome.
My concern is that if we stay signed in, WordPress can collect data on sites we visit to use for marketing or just to collect data. There has been a huge issue about this with Google. I don’t like the Big Brother aspect of it and wonder why WordPress thought this was necessary. What problem were you trying to solve?
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ATTENTION: I found what appears to be the rationale behind this whole thing:
https://twitter.com/#!/photomatt/status/180157622329159680
Fixed link → http://is.gd/PyMinC
and
https://twitter.com/#!/photomatt/status/180669542803058689
Fixed Link → http://is.gd/2mzDgS
You got to be kidding me…
[Links made clickable by -sl1k]
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Catastrophic way to solve a minor issue. No?
PS—Wordpress are you out there? Can you let us know something?
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WordPress is about to get fired if they don’t fix this issue by the end of the weekend. We have a lot of commenters on our blog and I’ll be damned if I force them to establish a WP account before they can comment. I imagine I am not alone.
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Access being restricted in any way is counterproductive and frustrating for our commenters. The last thing we want to do is frustrate our users, what is the point?
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Our little community at http://www.pigsarms.com.au, has enjoyed WordPress functionality for over three years, over 250,000 views and 40,000 comments.
We are a non-commercial cyber pub with about 10 regular contributors. We don’t get paid, we do all the hard work of running a cyber community for fun.
And one of the strong points of WordPress for us has been that it has been largely invisible – nothing gets in the way of our publishing and our dialogue with readers. Few rules, no forced logins, first comment moderated for a new visitor
Until now. And then WHAM – email storm and some comments not working. Begins the long, tortuous search for cause and solution.
I have been working in IT for over 30 years and I have NEVER before seen an “upgrade” done so badly or communications with users so poor. IMHO it goes beyond incompetence. It is downright pig ignorance.
My thanks to the super users who have helped us scramble through this. Sadly, the “workaround” for this FU reads like the rules of chess translated into Klingon. Better than nothing, though !!
My heart goes out to others whose livelihood depends on traffic through their WP blog.
If I was in your shoes, I’d be having a chat with my lawyer now.
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