If Yahoo doesn’t fix this very soon, I’m switching to BlogCatalog or something. I dunno if I’m a lone victim of a bug, but If the same problems happen to others, then I predict a lot of MBL users will leave.

pickel – as long as you have not transitioned, everything remains status quo. Once you try logging in to reply messages and such, then it will affect you.

Jeanne, its all fixed. :) BTW, this is not inside info (I wish!) but is from own experience switching over from the old system to the new login. Glad that this is at least helpful.

Denise – well, they must be doing SOME things right, then… :)

Thanks so much for that fascinating info about MyBlogLog/Yahoo! I wasn’t aware of it. That’s the kind of inside info that’s critical for bloggers to know so we can better understand our online experience and, hopefully, make the best of it.

Another blogger I know was wondering why her photo wasn’t appearing in her comments on a certain blog. I’ll definitely point her to this post, if she hasn’t already seen it.

Thanks, too, for visiting Writer’s Notes and commenting! I appreciate it!

Take care!
Jeanne

Thanks for taking the time to write this up. I could see how logging in every two weeks would be a little brain dead and certainly a step backwards from where we were. Rest assured, this is not the case.

The appearance of your userpic on someone’s Recent Reader widget is tied to a cookie on your PC, not your logged in state so regardless of it being two weeks between your visits to our site, your userpic will still show up on your friends’ sites. If you log out, you’ll see your userpic still appears.

Sorry about the .gif restriction but in my own experience, .jpg compression looks a lot better than .gif or .bmp. There’s also the added benefit that not allowing .gifs keeps out the animated dancing ladies that seemed to overtake our community a few months back.

Cheers,

Ian Kennedy
Product Manager, MyBlogLog