Blogger Enables Subscribe to Comments via Email

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 by Jordan McCollum

Blogger Enables Subscribe to Comments via Email

Just yesterday it seems (okay, to my knowledge it really was yesterday) that the only way to subscribe to comments on a Blogger or Blogspot blog was to click on the link posted at the bottom of all post pages:
old subscribe to comments from blogger

But now on the Blogger comments window, they’ve added a new option, if you’re signed in:

blogger email subscribe to comments

Subscribe to Comments is one of the most-requested WordPress plugins. Now it looks like Google has integrated that popular feature into its blog software.

If you’re hoping to turn this off for your Blogger-based blog, for now it looks like you’re out of luck. There doesn’t appear to be any control over the setting in Blogger. However, rest assured that only signed-in users can subscribe to comments.

Update: Google confirms that this feature was added last night.

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9 comments on “Blogger Enables Subscribe to Comments via Email”

Andy Beal Says:

October 25th, 2007 at 5:10 pm

Good old Blogger, just 3 years behind everyone else.
Steven Bradley Says:

October 26th, 2007 at 1:57 am

But Andy they needed to collect all the facts before committing to such a big change.

A little more control would probably be nice for those that prefer not to have it, but as long as the box isn’t checked by default there really isn’t any reason not to include the email subscription.
William Says:

October 26th, 2007 at 6:48 am

It’s really great news.
Maher Saleh Says:

October 26th, 2007 at 9:18 am

This is great news for people like me
» Blogger Adds Email Subscriptions For Comments » InsideGoogle-part of the Blog News Channel Says:

October 29th, 2007 at 1:57 pm

[...] Now, you can tell Blogger to send you comment replies via email, thanks to a feature added late last week. You’ll need to leave your comments via a Google Account (no help for anonymous cowardly commenters) and you’ll get a notification whenever someone leaves a new comment after yours, so no worries about keeping track of your latest flame war. (via Jordan McCollum) [...]
Rick Marnon, Howell Says:

November 2nd, 2007 at 7:37 pm

I just recently took out a blog on blogger.com and it has this. I think that it is a positive thing to have, so you don’t have to go to the blog all the time to check for comments.
Rick Marnon, Howell
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vidi Says:

November 4th, 2007 at 5:24 pm

Blogger may continue following up some other features of WordPress plugins.
SKETCH Says:

December 10th, 2007 at 6:50 am

I use this feature alot due to the bogger site being blocked at college. but i have a problem nowone is viewing my blog. I ping on technorarti and i use tags with every post but nowone is yet to look at it and i dont see a point to carrying on if nowone can see it. Can you please help me
Gold Coast SEO Says:

November 6th, 2008 at 2:19 am

It would be nice if blogger caught up with the other blog platforms like wordpress.

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