Showing posts with label Blogger Help Forum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogger Help Forum. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Blogger Help Forum (English) is moving

The English-language Blogger Help Forum (BHF) is moving to a new Google Product Forum, based Google Groups, from 9 March 2012 (that's this Friday).



There's nothing about the change in Blogger Buzz, but they've posted a long announcement in the current BHF, and linked to a Getting Started Guide which shows the base features of Google Product Forums, and an example working GPF-based forum (the one for Google Plus).

Key facts about the change:
  • Posts from the current forum will not be moved into to the new forum (since most of them refer to the old Blogger interface). 
  • You will need to join Google Groups to use it.
  • All user levels will reset to Level 1 (presuming not TCs though) - but if they look to make more TCs, your post-history in the old BHF will be checked.
  • The only way to get a picture with your profile in the new forum is to have it linked to your Google + account.   (I tested with an account that's not +'d, these do  basic Google profiles that don't include pictures).
  • The existing BHF will be archived, so the current content can still be found.
    (Not sure what "archived" means - probably that write-access to it will be turned off, but read-only access will be continued).
  • All help-links inside Blogger will go to the new forum, once it's live. 
  • The new forum will be at:   https://groups.google.com/a/googleproductforums.com/forum/#!forum/blogger
One fantastic feature of the new forum is the keyboard shortcuts, eg "space" to move down a page.    (Bringing back fond memories of the first use-net reader I ever met, back in the days of Vax VMS  :-)
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