For some reasons, blogger decided to change some settings in how the URL of blogs are displayed depending where you live, with the result that all blogger blogs viewed from India have their URL automatically changing from blogger.com to blogger.in.
I wouldn’t care if it was not totally messing up my diqus comment platfrom, the change in URl is apparently making viewers in Idnia unable to see that any comments have been posted via disqus on the comment count meter, but if you click on the “zero comment” it shows you all the disqus comments, it being because for some reason disqus doesn’t communicate with the .in version of the site but the .com one. I tried to change the settings but nothing worked. And because I don’t think it is fair that my Indian based readers don’t get to see the blog along with the comment meter I chose to disable disqus and go back to the regular comment platform offered by blogger, as imperfect as it is, I feel much better being able to see how many comments a certain post gets.
The downside of this move however is that now that I disabled disqus all the comments psted via that platform are efficiently lost and won’t be visible on the blog. if you commented recently and your comment is gone, I apologize, feel free to comment again though, the new ones will be saved on the blogger account. I just will disable anonymous comments, like I did before switching to disqus, and of course I still have veto on what get to stay on the blog, be rude and you’ll get yours deleted, be nice and I will interact with you via comments, I like interacting with you guys.
Again kindly bear with the change and sorry for the vanished disqus comments.
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And this is just a test to show how the new comments will show on the blog.
OMG...you're right! Ugh. Why can't people just leave stuff alone. Supposedly this is a good thing for the blogs but I can't see how. Maybe this is to bypass all the blocks being placed against them by other countries.
Kristy, I can't get why they did it either, I'm all for the "If it ain't broke don't fix it thing" I read on another blog that it might be to help blogs load faster or something having them in countrywise servers or something, but that doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. What I see is that now depending the country you get a country specific ending URL and that can mess up site statistics and it deffinitely messes up external comment platforms like disqus which recognize only the .com version of the blog.
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