The Red Brick Times

The "New" Blogger. Doesn't look all that new to me but hey, what do I know. Anyway.... I went ahead and switched a few minutes ago and during the process I noticed this:

"Other authors will be invited to move their accounts to the new Blogger when they sign in. They must use the new Blogger in order to post to these blogs."

I guess that, because I'm the registered owner of tRBT, I may have inadvertently moved it into a new Google space (Google bought Blogger a year or two ago) that will require anyone wanting to post to also switch. Oops. Oh well. Matter of time. I'm sure they'll drop the old interface/sign in sooner or later anyway.
Posted 4:01 PM by whatley (5) comments

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Here's a fuller description:

What happens when team blogs switch to the new version of Blogger?

A team blog will only switch to the new version of Blogger when the original owner moves his or her account over.

Team members who have not yet switched to the new version will still see the blog on their dashboards, but it will be grayed out and inaccessible. Once those members move their own accounts to the new version of Blogger, they will be able to access the blog as before. If they can't yet switch, or don't wish to, they can ask the owner of the blog for a new invitation to join the blog on the new version. They can then accept that invitation by logging in to or creating a Google Account to post to that blog. (Later on, when they do switch their Blogger account to the new version, they'll have an option to merge it with this account.)

If a team member of a blog switches their account to the new version of Blogger before the blog owner does, then the team blog is not converted. It will appear on the team member's converted dashboard, but clicking on it will lead back to the old version of Blogger. Thus, the blog will still be usable, but without the new features of Blogger (e.g. Labels, Layouts, etc.).

# posted by  whatley : December 29, 2006 4:25 PM
 
Cannot edit posts! It shows them, but does not let the author make any changes! Also requires a long and clumsy email address for account login. Boo! Hiss!

# posted by  Andy : December 29, 2006 4:59 PM
 
I agree, the login is clumsy. They do that to maintain compatibility with other Google services.

You say you can't edit your own posts? Please fool with that a bit to be sure.

# posted by  whatley : December 30, 2006 9:44 AM
 
Nope. Cannot edit any post before today. Also, everything is taking twice to three times as long to appear. When I clicked "Post a comment" just now, it never came up (5 minute wait). I had to close it and try again and still wait. The Blogger window takes a lot longer to initialize after I log in using the new path. Degradation of service it seems to me. Too big, too many users. Whaddya expect for free, a rrrrubber biscuit?

# posted by  Andy : December 30, 2006 5:39 PM
 
Bummer. I'm not experiencing the delay problems you are, at least not yet. Let's let it simmer for a while.

# posted by  whatley : December 31, 2006 6:52 AM
 
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