Comments on: Blogger blogs are annoying!

By: Robert Kennedy

Robert Kennedy — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 03:22:27 +0000

wordpress blogs are annoying too, you have to sign-in, and I always seem to forget my user name and password.

By: Tom Raftery’s I.T. ramblings » Google fails to implement nofollow on Blogger

Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:37:48 +0000

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Google fails to implement nofollow on Blogger

FrankP informed me recently that Blogger have updated their comment system so that people wit [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 13 Feb 2005 01:08:05 +0000

Yep, and don’t forget speed - posting anything, be it a post, or a comment seems to take an age on Blogger blogs whereas it is pretty instant on WordPress.

By: frankp

frankp — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:49:20 +0000

yeah, it’s true… I imagine the reason for this is that in the past I’m not sure previous comments were shown on the post comment page. Therefore it would make sense to check out previous comments before posting, so in the templates they coded it so you went to the post page before you got to the post comment page.

Did that make sense? Anyway, now with the comments being shown on the post comment page you can go directly to that page with no worries… as I have just done on 9mmfilm news…

So I have to admit the blogger commenting system has just taken a few huge leaps.

Let’s face it though, at the end of the day it would be nice not to have to leave your site - which is where Wordpress really wins over.

By: frankp

frankp — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:29:26 +0000

If you click this link, you will go to the comment posting page. (Note: in some templates, this link may take you to the post page first. From there you should be able to find the “Post a Comment” link which will take you here.)

I did not know that! I am now looking into how to eliminate that intermediate step of going to the post page… then the whole process will be MUCH better!

By: Yog-Sothoth

Yog-Sothoth — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:21:00 +0000

The old blogger comment set-up is very frustrating. I think that I stuck it for about a week before deleting it.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 19:19:38 +0000

Yeah - Blogger must have been reading this blog last week and decided to update as a result of this post!

Well Blogger, you still have some way to go, as Frank pointed out, but you are getting there. Keep up the improvements and if you want some suggestions on how to improve the commenting system, feel free to contact me directly!!!

By: frankp

frankp — Sat, 12 Feb 2005 17:22:36 +0000

Bizarrley enough, Blogger have just updated their comment system, among other things to allow people to post with a name and url like most systems… it still has a long way to go IMHO but they’re getting there!

By: frankp

frankp — Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:39:11 +0000

Yup. I find it really annoying. Not enough to stop me using the ones I have going - yet, anyway - but enough to make me consider another option for future blogs where commenting might be an issue.

A very strange and convoluted commenting system on Blogger is made all the more bizarre given the ease of use throughout the rest of their product…