Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Welcome to the "New and Improved" Blogger Experience!

Yes, folks. Blogger messed up the blog. It's been pestering me to convert to the new version of Blogger (which is out of the beta phase but shouldn't be), so finally last night I went ahead and did so, mainly so that the search feature would be available. Well, it worked BUT it changed over half your screen names to "anonymous"!

Come to find out, after the fact, that this is a known issue in the "new and improved" Blogger. See
this for the gory details. Whether there's a fix or not remains to be seen, but in the meantime you may want to put your screen name at the top of each comment.

My apologies for the inconvenience.

Some have said the problem has to do with the version of Blogger that the commenter is using when the switchover takes place. Please take the following poll to better help determine the problem. Whether you're using the old Blogger or the new version is determined by how you log in. If you use your Blogger.com account, you're still using the old version. If you use your Google account, you're using the new version.

Questions:

1. Why has it asked several times if I want to display nonsecure items? Is that OK???

Yes, it's aggravating, but apparently you can click "Yes" or "No" with no difference in results.

2. Why isn't the link for the blog still on the Saving Bellevue site?

It was a personal decision on the part of the owner of that site, and you would need to contact him about that. However, all you need to do is bookmark this site:

http://newbbcopenforum.blogspot.com
Please select the choice which describes your experience with Blogger.
I'm still logging in using my Blogger account, AND my screen name still appears on my old comments.
I'm still logging in using my Blogger account, AND my screen name now appears as "anonymous" on my old comments.
I have switched to the New Blogger (formerly Blogger beta), AND my screen name still appears on my old comments.
I have switched to the New Blogger (formerly Blogger beta), AND my screen name now appears as "anonymous" on my old comments.
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