Thirteen years is not long to wait, Blogger, I know you've been busy.
In the past, I've either answered to comments by email (if one was find-able) or in the dreaded @response. The down-side to the former is that other readers might want the answer too but didn't ask (or thought I was ignoring the commenter and was an ignorant bad person); the down-side to the latter is that the original commenter might not know I replied unless they subscribed to comments. Although I nixed the idea of installing Disqus or some such external workaround, it seems foolhardy* not to take advantage of the new Blogger functionality.
If you want to install threaded comments, it's super easy to do.
EDITED TO ADD: After looking into the comment left by Becky, it appears that there are still some bugs with threaded comments. It *can* change the look of your blog to readers using some versions of Internet Explorer and Chrome. Some people report that they're also not able to leave comments (again, depending on which browser they are using). And finally, click-throughs to your posts now bring readers to the end of the post where the comments are rather than to the top as before. Personally, this is majorly irritating and if not fixed quickly I might switch back for this reason alone. So maybe it was foolhardy to install! Further reading here and here, including how to remove threaded comments if you change your mind. All information found by Googling 'problems with threaded comments blogger'.
Gasp, good to see my inane comments finally taking pride of place on your blog where they belong. Feel free to reply to this comment, there is a tutorial on how to above.
ReplyDeletejust wanted to try :)
Deleteooh, handy! now I can reply to your comment on my blog properly!
ReplyDeleteI changed my settings to do this and a couple of people (non bloggers) have told me they can't comment on my blog anymore. Not sure if it's related. Do you know anything?
ReplyDeleteYikes, I will try to find out! I did see last night that there was possibly a problem with using Internet Explorer? I'll let you know if I find any answers :)
DeleteNaturally it doesn't work with Chrome. Why wouldn't two Google products work together?? *headdesk* I hate this about Google. They have an irritating tendency to launch products and upgrades without sufficient R&D or testing. Bit annoying, really. Threaded comments are kind of awesome.
ReplyDeleteDoes it work?
DeleteOK, just trying it out. I can post comments, reply to comments and see your blog in Chrome. Perhaps we're good?
ReplyDeleteI hope so! Just IE to go then :)
DeleteThe threaded comments was the main reason i moved myself to wordpress! Very happy to hear blogger has finally got in on it.
ReplyDeleteNice to meet you on Saturday!
Its a great way to improve communication with followers.. I'm was considering changing...
ReplyDeleteI am SO happy about the threaded comments. So now when I ask you about the appropriate use of strange British terminology everyone can share in the witty conversation in a way that makes as much sense as the original conversation does... which might still be sub-par, but, whatev.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that's a bugger is if you get a reply on your comment you don't get an email notification even if you have your email hooked up to your username so unless I'm all like 'oh I wonder if all twelve blogs I commented on yesterday replied, I should go back and check and add an extra half an hour to my time-wastin' this afternoon, mayhaps the baby will nap extra' then I don't actually find out, just like the @ comments. Come on blogger, help us out here. We just want to all be friends together. like a family. or facebook.
ReplyDeleteSo that's why I keep getting taken to the bottom of blog posts!
ReplyDeleteJust tried to set it up on my blog to no avail, it doesn't work with chrome I don't think - rubbish!!!
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