Lots of you are telling me that wordpress has done something shitty to the comments function on WordPress blogs and all of a sudden it is very difficult to leave comments here. You have to do some kind of log-in thing but the log-in always fails and locks you out or generates some nonsense name for you. Is that happening to you? Or do you have a blog and you figured out how to change this on your own blog? I want to know….
In the meantime I’m trying to get an answer from WordPress. Stay tuned for more information.
I have managed to get my name back by following the Gravatar link, clicking into my profile and changing the screen name from the jumble of letters and numbers to my name. But I could still log in I wasn’t being locked out. But the shitty thing is I have to do it every time I navigate away from a wordpress blog.
Testing now…
I followed the link as well, got my password reset because I’d forgotten the password, logged in again and then somehow managed to post my comment… but it posted under my wordpress name, not my regular posting name. Writing this comment now to test whether it goes under my regular name…
OK so that worked. But still! lot of trouble to get there!
(and you could also blame Mercury retrograde if you’re a bit of a hippie like me… Mercury is going direct though today, hurray)
Yes! This is happening to me! Oh I’m glad I’m not the only one. I haven’t encountered the nonsense name, I just get locked out.
I don’t seem to be having trouble, but I’m logged into a WP account.
I’ll consider this a test comment – I’m logged into my wordpress account, for reference.
I am not having trouble, but I have a WP account and a blog, so I think that helps. Seems crazy that they would make it so hard, though.
I cannot even down load wordpress for a blog at the moment
testing
luckily no problems for me. i don’t have a wp acct, just lucky i guess!
It picks you up if the email you use is registered with WP, but doesn’t seem to recognise you unless you specifically log in everytime. PITA but work-around-able.
Yes, I’ve had the problem that it only seems to let me comment using my wordpress blog, which I no longer use. The other day I totally lost a comment because I tried to leave it with my current (non wordpress) blog name. Hopefully this will get fixed! For now, I’m copying my comments before sending just in case.
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I’ve been having trouble commenting on various sites, log-in just doesn’t seem to be working. No nonsense name, just… nonsense. So I’ve given up using my actual WP ID (unless by sheer magic I seem to be logged in to start with) and am just typing in my name and email. Sometimes that causes crap too. But less often.
Luckily I don’t face any troubles… very strange…
Yep I’m having trouble making comments using my wordpress id too on non-wordpress blogs. Gave up and now use the Name/URL option. I’ve also been told some people have trouble leaving comments on my blog. Very frustrating.
Hey! It just did it to me on my own site.. I had to log-in to leave a comment. FFS.
Whoa, that’s taking this too far WordPress!
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[...] I mentioned this problem the other day on my blog. Apparently WordPress made some changes recently and fucked it up somewhat. It’s a problem for many people and there it lots of talk about it (and here, too). It hasn’t been fixed yet by WordPress and I am sure they’re really nice, busy empire-building people but wheeeeeen will they fix it already? I like WordPress and I am waiting (fairly) patiently but ultimately if the problem isn’t fixed I will need to migrate to another blogging platform because making it really difficult for people to comment on my posts kind of undermines the whole interactive purpose of blogging. [...]