Only if you sign specifically up to one site and only subscribe to their mind...
This is a really quick one, but Christ on a bike blogging sites, can’t you all just agree to co-exist?
To subscribe to something non-Wordpress I have to sign up. Then I get asked all the questions like ‘Hey, what theme do you want for your blog?’ ‘What’s your favourite colour?’ ‘When did you last do a wee?’.
I’ve typed it out once (very much under duress, I hate I have to repeatedly update the ‘About Me’ on this blog, let alone start prattling on in others) I should not need to do so again. Nor should I have to set up one with you, just so I can track one of your user’s blogs. Not very customer friendly is it?
I want WordPress and Blogger to cosy up a bit more. I want Blogger to not force my hand and use my Google account (which I haven’t used in ooh 12 months?) to login based on the facts that I am without a Facebook or Twitter or any other bloody social network I can integrate my account from. Do not punish me because I do not have an online social network!
Just let me follow a blog that isn’t on the same site as mine without making me divulge my entire life story to your signup page!
I also want Blogger to not ask me whenever I subscribe to a blog how I want my name displayed. You already asked me for a user name when I signed up. I just noticed this glaring error when subscribing to two belonging to people I spoke to regularly on Twitter. On one pre-mucking around backend I was visible as my email address (a no no) on the other post-mucking around it was showing correctly. After a bit of banging my head on the desk in frustration I calmed down and corrected it. User-unfriendly that is.
I’ll freely admit I have a Grandad-esque approach to setting up any kind of link between things (I still panic over putting picture attachments in my blogs) but bloody hell this kind of crap just seeks to induce aneurysms.
Blogging Sites - You Mock Me So
I know everyone has to make money, I know if I should take advantage of all the ‘premium’ tools these websites offer I should pay out, but I’m still not convinced it would do what I tell it – like a puppy that’s pissed on the shagpile for the 19th time.
Then again, the content of my blogs very often aren’t worth the virtual paper they’re written on. I’d be hard pushed to wipe my virtual arse on them at times. Yet still I sit here and vent my virtual rage.
Grrrrrrr.
*pokes it with a stick*
Still nothing. Sod it.
