Blogger.com - self-help communities
Does anyone know of an active self-help community for Blogger.com? On G+ or elsewhere. The only moderately active forum is the official Google Productforum.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/blogger
There's quite a lot of integration between Blogger.com and G+ but I've been unable to find any information about what's going to happen with all this. In theory a lot of it is related to the G+ API which of course will close 7-Mar-2019. So large parts of that integration will fail then, with the rest failing in April 2019.
- Accounts
- Profiles
- G+ Comments
- Widgets
- G+ Share buttons
As far as I can tell there's been zero official announcements about the G+ Sunset aimed at Blogger.com users.
Like G+ images, Blogger images are also in an uncertain limbo. Almost in Google Photos, but not quite.
Does anyone know of an active self-help community for Blogger.com? On G+ or elsewhere. The only moderately active forum is the official Google Productforum.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/blogger
There's quite a lot of integration between Blogger.com and G+ but I've been unable to find any information about what's going to happen with all this. In theory a lot of it is related to the G+ API which of course will close 7-Mar-2019. So large parts of that integration will fail then, with the rest failing in April 2019.
- Accounts
- Profiles
- G+ Comments
- Widgets
- G+ Share buttons
As far as I can tell there's been zero official announcements about the G+ Sunset aimed at Blogger.com users.
Like G+ images, Blogger images are also in an uncertain limbo. Almost in Google Photos, but not quite.
I can offer to ask the G+ Early Availability community, but my hopes are rather low there.
ReplyDeletePeggy K might have some suggestions?
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond Blogger images are stored in their own album in Album Archive. The shutdown of Google+ shouldn't affect those.
ReplyDeleteAlso, anyone using a Blogger profile and Blogger comments for their blog (rather than a Google+ profile and comments) won't be affected.
As for the other things, I've been pushing for more information to be provided, but I don't know when that will happen. With the deadline pushed up by 4 months, and that announcement made just a month ago, Blogger may have had to entirely rework whatever their original plans were and so won't have details until that's all worked out.
The only other Blogger discussion community I know if is here on Google+, and I don't know that it's currently active.
There still a number of Blogger experts here on Google+, so when there is more information, it should be disseminated quickly.
But considering that Google+ itself hasn't made a public post with any details yet, I don't think it's surprising Blogger hasn't done so.
Peggy K
ReplyDeleteSince I'm re-homing my community and two collections from G+ to Blogger I certainly hope you're correct. :)
Since I'm not trying to save anything on G+ it has been fairly easy to reconstruct the basic functionalities.
Peggy K I find Album Archive (https://get.google.com/albumarchive/) to be weirdly incomplete. For instance, there are images I would really expect to be in Profile Photos that aren't there. And yet they get included in Profile Takeout.
ReplyDeleteBlogger only photos certainly shouldn't be affected by the G+ Sunset. But they seem to exist in the same state as G+ Photos and Profile photos as an auto-created album, that sits along side G Photos but is not automatically imported into G Photos.
Julian Bond that's right, the Blogger album is like the Google+ Photos from Posts album and Hangouts album - it's where those images live so that you (hopefully) don't touch them. Deleting those images will remove them from your blog posts, your Google+ posts, and the images shared in your Hangouts conversations respectively.
ReplyDeleteThat is strange that not all your profile photos are in your Profile Photos folder. But there are other Google+ images that aren't archived either, like Collection cover images.
(As an aside, back in the old version Google+, the Profile Photos tab would show your Blogger blog albums and other such images. And since it wasn't clear to everyone that they weren't publicly visible, people would delete them, or make them private. Then they would be surprised their all the images on their blog disappeared. Good times (not). But that is probably why those images are no longer so easily accessible.).