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Happy new year!
Last spring I started offering subscribe-by-email for this blog—email notifications of new posts.
Unfortunately the service I chose for that is closing up shop this February.
(Who do they think they are, ending stuff like that? Google?)
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Leave a comment on a Blogger blog from your Google account (that is, not anonymously), and you can be notified if someone replies to you.
That can lead to interesting exchanges, while enriching the blog.
But it has gotten harder to choose the "Google Account" option when commenting.
It's a case of some outdated technology in Blogger bumping up against modern privacy concerns.
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A reader asks,
Is there any easy way to tell if any other account has made a post [on a blog]?
The question has special urgency in light of Google's plan to start deleting inactive Google accounts, beginning in December of 2023.
If there are old accounts on your blog, and Google deletes them, the images they've uploaded will be deleted too.
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Google's plan to start deleting inactive accounts (and their blogs) begins this December.
What does it mean to you, and how can you protect your blog?
The actual requirements are simple. Just publishing blog posts keeps the account active.
But there's a nasty surprise for some blogs.
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The old jump break offers hidden benefits to all Blogger blogs.
Before Blogger introduced the jump break in 2009, blog themes displayed entire posts stacked on top of each other.
The break allowed blogs to make a main page of posts truncated with "read more" links to each post on separate post pages. (It still does that, for older blog themes.)
Today, the most modern blog themes truncate posts automatically. But the jump can help even these blogs in ways not anticipated in 2009.
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(You can also do the same thing for all your posts, labeled or not.)
"Dynamic" means the list revises itself automatically whenever you add or subtract a label from a post.
New here?
Maybe you know exactly where you are going with your new blog. If so, don't let me slow you down.
For my part, when I was getting started, I was uncertain about the right way to do things.
I'm writing this for newcomers, though old hands may find a few tidbits of interest too.