I wanted to comment on something over at Mark's Blog, and was confronted with a "you must log in if you want to leave a comment".
Now, ok, I can almost forgive the Blogger/Google Consortium for saying "we want to put that up there to get in the way, so that we can minimize spam"... I mean, MovableType does it with their TypeKey program, so why not.
First mistake:
Why the fuck do I need to set up a blog in order to have an account to post comments from?
There's no way to create a simple "I want an account I can post from but I've got a blog elsewhere and have no need for your crummy Blogger[TM] tools". You have to decide on a title for your blog, and a URL (I'm now the proud owner of http://aslkdjaskljdlasjdklas.blogspot.com/), and a style-sheet and all that useless shite that I'm never, ever going to use.
Even now that I've got my crappy blogspot account set up, I can't leave a fucking comment.
I click to leave a comment. It prompts me for my username and password, claiming that I'm not logged in. I give it my username and password. It brings me to my "dashboard". OK, I think to myself, this is a crappy UI design, but now that I'm logged in, and I'd checked "remember me", I'll go back to the post, re-click the "comment" link, and leave my comment.
Except that it, once again, asks me for my username and password. And, once again, redirects me to my "dashboard".
I thought to myself "maybe this is a Firefox thing"... nope, fails with Safari too. And IE, as well. Maybe it's a "Mac versus Windows" thing. Who knows, but 3 out of 3 browsers on the Mac can't seem to login and leave a comment.
So Mark, I wanted to leave a comment on your blog, but I couldn't. I hope you'll forgive me if I don't expend a lot of effort in the future trying to figure out how to make it work in the future, unless the Bloogle Consortium changes their UI drastically.
And if there's someone out there who wants "http://aslkdjaskljdlasjdklas.blogspot.com/" for their own purposes, feel free to ask, and it shall be yours.
Heh,
You should change the password to "dontbugme".
It is kinda of stupid isn't it? I have a friend who has a blogger account, I simply post anonymously then sign my name at the end of the comment.
They really should allow you to register just to post on other blogs.
Dump the user/pass on bugmenot.com
I think there were some problems with blogger yesterday. I had a hell of a time posting on my site.
I must say, as an occasional "commentor" I am grateful for the fact that I don't have to log in all the time.
I think you have it just right with the fact that you pre-approve all comments.
Well I have to admit that it is my fault you had to set up the account. There is an option to allow anyone to comment I have just not set it yet, being lazy and all.
I also have to admit that I kind of loath Blogger, and have gone on and off their service for the past 2 years or so. I used to loose posts, get dropped off the server, and even lost a whole blog to some kind of upgrade last year. I only use them when it is more convenient for me to post from work. I used to write my log out in an ever growing Html file, wherein I had more control over the looks and the frankly the content, but I found myself getting lazy about it and not posting, so I went back to blogger. I am not and never will be a ringing endorser of their service. In short your right blogger blows donkey.
from http://aslkdjaskljdlasjdklas.blogspot.com/
"What The Fuck? I Don't Need An Entire Blog Just To Post Comments!
This is the really crappy blog that I was required to create just so that I could create an account that I would use to post comments to other peoples' blogs. I will never ever post here. Honest."
That Has to be the funniest thing I have seen in a long while.