MyBlogLog Revisited
Posted by Lynnster on April 10, 2008
I got inexplicably locked out of my MyBlogLog account over a year ago because the password reset function wasn’t working - this was before Yahoo swooped it up - so when I went back and Yahoo now had taken over and everything had changed, I could find virtually no way to get back into my old account and community. A little help from Support (impressively fast and just raised my previous opinions about Yahoo support quite a bit) and I was back in.
So wow, they’ve really kind of improved a lot and added some great stuff over there, huh? And now with Twitter, LastFM, MySpace, Flickr, Technorati, YouTube, StumbleUpon and tons of other services feeding into it if you so desire. It’s like I can never totally get lost and disappear from the Internet ever again! Tee hee.
I really should start being a little more active over there. I noticed, even through all this time I was locked out of the account, that I get visitors through it regularly so I think it’s well worth the time to be a little active, if you’re into that kind of thing. I’m really not for the Zone, but indirectly the Zone gives exposure to projects I DO care about numbers of visitors and stuff - like all my music projects - so activities in other online communities is a good thing in that case.
Anyway, well, kudos to MyBlogLog for all the improvements and additions. I still wish the interface was a little easier to deal with as far as searching for and joining communities and especially adding contacts - I’m clueless as to whether I’m in any of my contacts’ communities and whether communities I’ve joined belonging to my friends, if I’m on their contact list, and it’s really just too much trouble to sort out the way it is right now. But still things over there are vastly improved from the last time I was able to access that account, so thumbs up on the improvements.
Oh, and one of the improvements was the addition of a non-Java reader widget for WordPress.com, so finally I got that back after not having had it for years, and you can join The Lynnster Zone’s community over there too if you so desire (see right sidebar). Woot, and stuff.
April 10, 2008 at 5:03 am
I don’t use MyBlogLog as much as I used to. Some of my “spammy” visitors were coming from there, so I’ve dialed back.
April 10, 2008 at 6:52 am
Ehhh, I don’t care about the spammers too much, if they wanna come let ‘em is what I say. Hardly any of them get thru Akismet anymore so more power to ‘em is my motto, LOL. :)
April 10, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Thanks for the kind words Lynnster, glad we got you sorted out. We’re looking at re-working how friend invites and requests are handled so stay tuned for improvements there. Search will get better as well - some new servers are on order that should allow us to spiff things up there too.
Ian