Blogger added notice regarding Google+ integrations to their admin panel
Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter
Blogger has finally added a notice to its control panel interface
The text of the notice reads as follows:
Following the announcement of Google+ API deprecation scheduled for March 2019, a number of changes will be made to Blogger’s Google+ integration on 4 February 2019.
Google+ widgets: Support for the '+1 Button', 'Google+ Followers' and 'Google+ Badge' widgets in Layout will no longer be available. All instances of these widgets will be removed from your blog.
+1 buttons: The +1/G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog posts and in the navigation bar will be removed.
Please note that if you have a custom template that includes Google+ features, you may need to update your template. Please contact your template supplier for advice.
Google+ Comments: Support for Google+ comments will be turned down, and all blogs using Google+ comments will be reverted back to using Blogger comments. Unfortunately, comments posted as Google+ comments cannot be migrated to Blogger and will no longer appear on your blog.
Learn more.
The [Learn more] link points to Blogger's January 30th announcement: https://www.blogger.com/go/gplusdeprecation-notice-blog
Various options that integrated with Google+, or referred to it, have already been removed from the control panel / settings interface, interestingly though, the User Settings still offer setting Google+ as user profile.
It's good to see they are finally clarifying some things, and actually informing their users, however it's disappointing they aren't offering a migration solution, and that they added this notice banner on the day that these changes are already taking effect, rather than ahead of time; especially since they must've known this since October 2018 already.
Want to save your comments?
I'm currently working on a tool to backup the relevant JSON data, as well as export it to standalone HTML files and snippets, which could be included on your blog. It's currently a command-line interface tool, and thus might not be as suitable for the every day user, but I hope to have something more user-friendly available in time. Please follow my profile, or my Google+ Exodus Collection here on Google+ if you want to be kept up to date about it: https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/wakeQF
Since the final code will also be published to my Github repository, you can also follow me there: https://github.com/FiXato
#Blogger #Plexodus #PlexodusTools #GooglePlus #GPlus #GooglePlusExodus #GPlusExodus #Google #FiXato
Originally shared by Filip H.F. “FiXato” Slagter
Blogger has finally added a notice to its control panel interface
The text of the notice reads as follows:
Following the announcement of Google+ API deprecation scheduled for March 2019, a number of changes will be made to Blogger’s Google+ integration on 4 February 2019.
Google+ widgets: Support for the '+1 Button', 'Google+ Followers' and 'Google+ Badge' widgets in Layout will no longer be available. All instances of these widgets will be removed from your blog.
+1 buttons: The +1/G+ buttons and Google+ share links below blog posts and in the navigation bar will be removed.
Please note that if you have a custom template that includes Google+ features, you may need to update your template. Please contact your template supplier for advice.
Google+ Comments: Support for Google+ comments will be turned down, and all blogs using Google+ comments will be reverted back to using Blogger comments. Unfortunately, comments posted as Google+ comments cannot be migrated to Blogger and will no longer appear on your blog.
Learn more.
The [Learn more] link points to Blogger's January 30th announcement: https://www.blogger.com/go/gplusdeprecation-notice-blog
Various options that integrated with Google+, or referred to it, have already been removed from the control panel / settings interface, interestingly though, the User Settings still offer setting Google+ as user profile.
It's good to see they are finally clarifying some things, and actually informing their users, however it's disappointing they aren't offering a migration solution, and that they added this notice banner on the day that these changes are already taking effect, rather than ahead of time; especially since they must've known this since October 2018 already.
Want to save your comments?
I'm currently working on a tool to backup the relevant JSON data, as well as export it to standalone HTML files and snippets, which could be included on your blog. It's currently a command-line interface tool, and thus might not be as suitable for the every day user, but I hope to have something more user-friendly available in time. Please follow my profile, or my Google+ Exodus Collection here on Google+ if you want to be kept up to date about it: https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/wakeQF
Since the final code will also be published to my Github repository, you can also follow me there: https://github.com/FiXato
#Blogger #Plexodus #PlexodusTools #GooglePlus #GPlus #GooglePlusExodus #GPlusExodus #Google #FiXato
Just seen, Please
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I got the notice, however, it did not show up on my admin panel until this morning, 2019-Feb-5. I logged into my blog yesterday morning, and at various times throughout the day, and never once saw the notice until this morning.
ReplyDeleteTom Gatermann yeah, as mentioned in my post it's disappointing that they added it when the changes had already come into effect. Google is being really tardy when it comes to informing their users; it's like they don't want users to have enough time to backup their data.
ReplyDeleteI've been an early adopt of Google and their products for many years. I remember switching my high school's computers to use Google Search as start-page when Altavista, Lycos Search and AskJeevese were still popular alternatives. I embraced Google+ early on while it was still an invite-only product. I've always been happy and comfortable to promote their new products and services. But how they are handling this is leaving a very bad taste in my mouth; they are burning a lot of bridges.
I can understand they want to retire Google+; they are fully in their right there, I don't have a problem with that. To be fair G+ has had it a long time coming, at least with how Google has been neglecting it more and more after the project leaders changed and the vision for G+ got muddled up more and more.
What I do have a problem with, is how it was announced, and how it's been handled since. The announcement came out of nowhere and was mostly a sidenote on a security blog post. More info was promised 'soon', but didn't come till after their second announcement which promptly halved the sunset period. Users (and their own moderators and product experts) were and are being left in the dark about many details, and there's information is provided too little too late. Blogger and Google+ Comments for Blogger being the best example perhaps of that; announcing that feature to be removed only 6 days before its deadline.
Goofle is showing a total disregard for their users and it's not reflecting well of them in the short term. Whether users will remember and it will have an effect in the long term, time will only tell.
Filip H.F. Slagter How Google handled this frustrated me to a point that I decided to de-Google my life (which, as I found out, isn't easy at all). Part of that was moving my blog to WordPress. You'll never know if Blogger will suffer the same fate as G+.
ReplyDeleteI knew this was coming - but it shocked me to see the general announcement on my Blogger today your G+ comments are gone!!
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