"Subscribe by Email" is one of three ways that readers can elect to be notified when you publish a blog post.
It is also the name of a sidebar gadget in Blogger that will present this option to your readers.
It is also the name of a sidebar gadget in Blogger that will present this option to your readers.
Those busy beavers at Blogger never rest! And, one is tempted to add, unfortunately.
This week's change involves the batch controls, with special implications for managing labels.
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Let's be fair. |
Google could have done so much better when it revisited the "back end" of Blogger—the tools we bloggers use to create blogs and posts.
I've been critical (and, I hope, helpful) on this blog.
But to be fair, I'd like to put the criticism aside and remind everyone of things that are new and improved. Of benefits from the change.
PAIN FROM BLOGGER'S COMMUNICATION PROBLEM
Third-party tracking cookies (tiny files that your browser downloads from just about everybody, unless you block them) are facing legitimate concerns about privacy.
Apple started blocking these trackers in its Safari browser by default in the spring of 2020, and now others, including Google, have come around.
That's good—but also a problem for Blogger. We felt the pain for five days in January.
A PROBLEM YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU HAD
Want to delete a comment you left on someone else's blog?
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Photo: Auaan, cc by-sa 4.0 |
It just got more difficult.
Blog comments are affected by the same issue that recently disabled the quick-edit tools.
A workaround "fixed" that issue. It also has the effect of fixing comments.
The removal of the quick-edit tools has made Blogger harder to use.
Here's how to get them back, at least for now.
Update: Google has reversed course on this—at least for the present.
AND IT'S MY FAULT
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So, why did this happen? And, can anything be done about it?
The answer to why is this.
It is my fault.
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The new Blogger user interface is a boon to hand surgeons everywhere.
Why: All the extra clicks, distributed over hundreds of thousands of users, must surely translate into more cases of carpal tunnel syndrome.
The title of this blog post is