A Note on Commenting

I’m puzzled. Are my readers trying to post comments, but for some reason they’re not getting through? When I check my stats each week, I see several clicks on my comment policy page, but I haven’t received any comments in a long time.

I also know that only a very small fraction of readers submit comments. A blog can have hundreds of thousands of subscribers and only receive a few dozen comments on an individual post. So there might not be any problem at all.

If you’ve tried, unsuccessfully, to submit a comment at any time, please email me here: anomaly2134@gmail.com, so I can document the extent of the problem.

I decided to try (once again) to track down anything that might be preventing comments from getting to my email box. The only suggestion I found that I could follow through on was to use a popup window for comments. I changed my setting to do that.

If you try commenting and it doesn’t work, please email me at anomaly2134@gmail.com. I will be happy to post your comment from there.

If you have experience with this problem on blogger.com, please let me know of any solutions that you’ve found helpful.

Please pray for wisdom for me in approaching this potential problem.

Thank you for reading my posts, for your patience, for your prayers, and for any other help you can give me.

Ann

Readers' Comments

 So I went to leave a reply to a comment on my last article, and I got an error message.

Oh no!, I thought. Is that what’s happening to readers who try to submit comments?

I did some troubleshooting, and I think I found the answer. As you can see, it worked for me. Every article I read confirmed that my settings were where they should be, but couldn’t explain why I couldn’t get through.

Then there was that one last article. Someone else had discovered that one of those highly-recommended settings was creating the problem. I changed the setting, and was able to submit and publish my own comment. (It might also be necessary to click on the OK button to accept cookies.)

If you’ve tried leaving a comment in the past, only to be frustrated by an irritating error message, I hope you’ll try again. If you’re still having trouble, please contact me at anomaly2134@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Ann

Changes

If you're one of my regular readers, you’ve probably noticed some changes that I’ve made on my website recently. I want to highlight a few of them here.

I’ve started a new feature at the top of my sidebar, called “Quote of the Week by Ann.” Each week I’ll be posting a different quote from one of my articles. You can click on the quote to read the entire article.

To save a little space, I shortened my list of articles on other sites to include only the three most recent ones. I’ll edit the list as new ones are published. Be sure to check back regularly for updates.

I thought it might be helpful to give you a brief summary of all of my articles on those sites, so you can find the ones that interest you the most. The link to that list is on my sidebar under “Pages.”

I’ll be switching to posting once a month, rather than every three weeks.

Let me know what you think of these changes. Thanks for reading! You’re in my prayers.

Ann

Another Note

Regarding my Update under A Note to my Readers: Reverting, editing, and republishing didn’t work. I didn’t realize until it was too late that Blogger would still date it 6/28, which is a day or two before I subscribed. I assume that’s why I still didn’t get a notice. Many apologies to any subscribers who have received multiple email notices regarding a new post! Hopefully, this one will solve the problem.

The plan: make it a whole new post (rather than an edit), so that I get the notice that it’s been published today. If this works, I won’t be bothering you anymore. If not, I’ll leave it up to follow.it to straighten it out—which might mean more experimenting and more notes.

Thanks for your prayers and patience as I make this not-so-smooth transition! Please pray that I get it all straightened out before I publish my regular post next Friday.

Ann

A Note to my Readers

 I just wanted to let you know that I recently switched from Feed Burner to follow.it to handle my subscribers.

For current subscribers, I imported your email addresses to my follow.it feed, so you shouldn’t have to sign up again.

If you aren’t a subscriber, I’d love to have you join our community. I promise I won’t pester you or sell your address to anyone else. You’ll just receive an email notice each time I publish a new post. Each new follower brings me one step closer to getting my memoir published, so if you appreciate my writing and would like to see my book in print, you can help me out by subscribing (and by recommending my blog to your friends).

I’ve also added a “contact me” gadget. If you have questions, or if you want to make a comment but don’t want it to appear on my blog, feel free to send me a note.

Thank you for reading, praying, commenting, subscribing, and spreading the word about my blog!

Ann

Update: I tested the new service by subscribing, but I didn't get a notice when I published this post. So I did some troubleshooting with help from follow.it. I think we fixed everything. To check it out, I reverted this post to draft, added this note, and am preparing to publish it again. If it works, I won't have to go through this process multiple times.

My apologies to anyone who received the first notice and is wondering why they're getting another email saying this is a new post. Thank you for your patience!