How can I change the blog link if I've got a new one after moving my blog from blogspot to wordpress? Thank you.

Pour inviter des personnes à suivre mon blog, suis-je encore limitée à 8 invitations ? Merci pour votre réponse.

I would like to only invite new friends from Facebook that I have not invited before. It seems I cannot find the previously uninvited people as I used to be able to do. How do I sort them out?

The limitation of only being able to invite 8 people at a time is absurd.  Also, the new format doesn't cull out those who are already subscribers to my blog.  If the intention is to put limitations on the ability to invite people in order to avoid spam, including all of my Friends List in the invitation pick window renders that "feature" null.  Please filter out friends who are already subscribers.

Also, please include readership stats in all of the standard feed engines.  I can read stats on every other subscriber service to my blog in my site's logs, but not Networked Blogs.

Thank you so much for your response. I always like to invite new people, but I hate to nag friends who choose not to follow my blog.

Thanks for your reply and attention to detail!

Through my ISP I can check stats on all of my sites, including blog readership.  They include all major traffic outlets and readers (Feedburner, Yahoo, Google).  I can look at each of these and see where the most traffic comes from and compare. It would be really nice for Networked Blogs to be included in these kinds of stat readers.

Please stop making changes.. They are never better... also why don't photos show up when I copy the URl from a post? They used to and I could select which photo I wanted to use.

How do you syndicate now and blast the blogs to subscribers...

My question is related to one of the points Ann makes, too. Sometimes I like to repost my blog entries manually, and I used to be able to select which photo from the entry I wanted to use each time I posted it. Now it just forces me to use the first photo in the entry every time I repost it. Is there a way to fix that? Hope that makes sense. Thanks!

Are the chages affecting syndication? Only 2 of our 7 targets were published today.

Yes, I was able to select a photo.. when I copied the URl and posted it and now there is this stupid deal that says" this is a blog I thought you would like.' I don't like the change in this .. please change it back...

And the manual syndication isn't working well.. not posting...  terrible all these changes.. not good, not good at all.. what is the purpose? Terrible terrible!

The syndication on this is messed up.. it's all a mess.. change it back.. it used to be fast and easy...

After the first syndication.. it states done... after the second it freezes in an empty frame.. so I can't go to the next one... a disaster...

and YES... I was able to copy the url of a past blog article then select which photo I wanted to...now some canned thingy comes up and it is through networked blogs.. so all changes are not better.. with you or FB...

Nice job !

The Facebook login button isn't showing up in Chrome.  The page just says "Please log in with your Facebook account to continue," but I have no way to log in from there.

i hope we can add more than 10 friends a day..............

Now I can't even get into Network blogs...

so what are you doing now?... GeeZ!

Now I see none of my blog posts... are you still working on this thing? Do you all realize how much you put us through with all the 'changes' that improve nothing?...

the new interface  is horrible -- how do i determine the latest blog followers?? who decided this was an improvement?? the layout sucks the older interface was so concise and compact, but now you dump this massive change in our lap -- is there a manual for any of things?????

could you please at least give us the option to revert to the old interface ???

what existing features did you make better exactly?? i don't see any improvement other than the disruption you've caused by this change

Where are my blog posts.. none of them are showing ..??????????????????????????????????

Please get this back to where it was BEFORE the changes... thank you!

Where are my blog posts.. nothing is showing up...so that I can syndicate them...

I can't believe you'd make changes without first testing them to make sure they work properly and secondly without asking people who use the service if the changes would be beneficial and useful. I can't believe you'd make changes that would prevent me from bothering people with multiple requests to join my blog when they've already said no once. I can't believe you'd make changes that inhibit bloggers from reaching their audience. Have you ever heard the phrase, "If it ain't broke don't fix it"? Now, because of your other idiotic rule that a blogger can only invite 8 people a day, in combination with the fact that a successful blogger often will generate far more than 8 friend requests a day, it can take me weeks or months to invite all my latest Facebook friends to my blog. You know, two other things were recently altered. One was that you seem to have removed the comments section. That was a useful tool for a few reasons. It enabled discussion on my blog page about my blog, and it also allowed me to get feedback from my followers. Another change might be your issue or Facebook's, not sure, but I no longer have easy access to my Facebook page for my blog. I have to hunt back through months of posts every time I want to get to my blog page just to invite my newest Facebook friends. I hate that and it is an incredible waste of my time and effort. Last thing I want to say: we bloggers use this as a tool, it's not a game; we have something to say, we have followers who want to read what we say, this is our way of reaching people and communicating ideas, feelings, art, writing, philosophy and many other types of communication. When you mess with it, you prevent us from using our discourse as well as drive a wedge between us and our readers. Keeping active readers is dependent on regular publication. You have interrupted our ability to inform our public as to the addition of new material. We can lose active readers because they might fall out of the habit of reading our posts. I don't like this, oh we'll fix it in a few days. Put it back like it was now, and test it to make sure it works before you change it. Oh and please, notify us, the people who use your product at least a few days in advance of changes. Isn't that common courtesy? Goodness gracious. I can't believe the ineptitude and lack of foresight you people have shown in your execution of your changes.

Oh my goodness, I just re-read your post. You're going to make changes to the syndication too? Please test them and make sure they work before you unilaterally incorporate them. Hey, also, sending info to your users before your execute the changes on the exact nature of the changes as well as how to use them so we don't have to spend minutes to hours to days to maybe longer to figure them out on our own in the dark would be not only courteous, but professional.
 

Networked blog has stopped pulling my blog posts all of a sudden. is this because of the new change ?

Where are my recent blog posts?????????????????????????????????????????????????????? I want to publish one and why .. they don't show up.... what are you doing??????????????????????????

How can I change the blog link if I am using my own custom domain and no longer using blogspot? Thank you.

My blog posts are gone - can you please reinstate them?

Please lift the invite friends limit of "8" people.  I have over 2100 friends.  It will take me forever to invite everyone to read my blog that doesn't already.

Last, please filter out people who have already been invited....

Thank you!

Je voudrais ne plus recevoir le fil des commentaires de ce forum dans ma boîte gmail SVP.

J'ai reçu ma réponse, merci.

Où dois-je cliquer ?

Sorry, j'ai trouvé le bouton de désinscription.

Merciii.

Bye !

Waleed,

Still no button.  I cleared my cache and restarted the browser, logged out of Facebook, turned off pop-up blocking (both via whitelisting and completely shutting it down), and nothing.  When using Firefox, I get a pop-up Facebook login window as soon as I reach the Networked Blogs page.  In IE, it automatically logs me in.  Chrome gets to the login page and I can't go any further.  And this only started happening yesterday.  Before, as long as I was logged into Facebook, I got right through.

Mu blogs are back... but I do not like your changes at all!... There are more steps to syndicate. I agree with what someone else said, why do you make these changes without telling us.? Like FB? If there was another place to go, we would.. and there will be... Few changes are for the better.. they are just irritating.. do you all get bored and decide to screw with everything...?

The new changes to FB have completely altered my blog traffic. Instead of receiving 800+ impressions on my posts on my fan page and profile,  I now only get 30 or 40 at most. How can that be possible? Please let me know if I need to change something on my settings. That change is dramatically affected my blog. 

Please fix it so that after syndicating a blog that the frame doesn't freeze so that I can't blast more...

You changes appear to me to hamper use to curtail fast syndication and to cause more issues..is that what you were going for?

network blogs won't verify that I posted the widget, but I did.

This is now the buggiest, most unresponsive application in recent memory!  Good job! 

Hi,

I have 2 problems:

1. My blog's RSS feed shows only abstracts in the feed.
I understand that now the app does not pull pictures for blogs which have RSS feeds that shows abstracts.
Why? My Rss feed was always showing abstracts and the app used to show pictures.
I don't want to change my RSS definitions just for the app.

2. I can't change the blog Topics.

Thank you!

Not thrilled with the changes, nothing works , I can't post my updates. .... why fix it if it isn't broken.  Now fix the broken fix please. Used friendly is always better then the thrill of something new....... 

Hi, Waleed,

Sorry I wasn't clear enough. I used to be able to choose the thumbnail associated w/my blog post when I manually posted/shared a blog entry on my FB page. So, for example, today I reposted my latest blog entry (http://www.sapac.org/blog/2011/10/03/desispotting-october-2011/) on my FB page (http://www.facebook.com/SAPACchicago). This particular blog entry is a listing of events and includes 22 images. I used to be able to choose which of those 22 images would show up as the thumbnail when I reposted the entry on my FB page. Now I am always stuck with the first image in my entry as the thumbnail. Do you know why this is and how I can fix it? Thanks!

Can't seem to send out invitations from my profile.

Waleed,

I'm using Firefox to post, since I can't get in through Chrome.  My OS is Windows 7 64-bit.

I'm trying to get to this page:  http://w.networkedblogs.com/blog/the_daily_rich_895248

Here's the link I get when I click "login" from the above link:  http://w.networkedblogs.com/news

I've also attached a screen shot of what I see when I try to log in.

Thank you Waleed,

That was a wonderful explanation. Change is difficult. That's just how it is. But I appreciate your taking the time for us.. This is not your doing  and you simply have to do your job. I don't think anyone is angry at you personally, because these changes were not your doing. But you have to "Face the Music" as it were. And you have done a wonderful job keeping your cool. I appreciate your ability to keep it together despite the heat. You have done wonderfully!  I thank you for your explanations and look forward to a smoother transition. Well done!  

Thanks so much! 

Waleed, I used to receive a page that showed all new friends.  It is VERY disappointing to not see that page in the new iteration.  

The removal of a primary

business advantage tool such as this indicates that not nearly enough time has been taken to understand user needs.  

I do hope you are planning to reinstate it?

Well, you just put me out of the blog business on Facebook and with NetworkedBlogs. You statement says I will no longer be able to invite friends. Your statement also suggested that to use some features I have to run the NetworkedBlog through a "fan" page. Well, frankly, I have always thought of fan pages as vanity gone wild. I'll have nothing to do with them. So, you're saying I may as well stop using NetworkedBlogs. So I will. Bye. 

I am officially terminating my affiliation with NetworkedBlogs as of 9 pm CST on 10/4/2011. I have notified my followers and written a blog post to that effect.

Hey Waleed, 

You're a gentleman, my friend. Thanks for explaining what's going on with NetworkedBlogs. I'm happy to have this cool app to use and quite frankly I was a bit embarrassed for some of the nasty people who only have gripes. I appreciate your professionalism in explaining things as you have and for keeping it productive. 

Highest regards,

Cat 

PS - For those throwing around attitude here over change, perhaps you may consider this poignant and oh-so-timely quote by Eric Hoffer: In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

THis is frustrating and not fun.. It shouldn't be this difficult.. I do this for fun not to be continually irritated...

waleed, please reverse the order of the comments on this page and place the latest comments at the top. change is not a problem as long as it is managed well. the changes regarding this blog tool were not managed at all but thrown into a chaotic swill with the expectation we'll all blindly drink, like those victims in jonestown. how about a little warning first, next time? 

I agree Ann! This is a total joke! This app..the people who run it have done EVERYTHING they can to prevent me from inviting my facebook friends to follow my blog! It went from unlimited invites, to 16, to 8...and NOW YOU ARE PREVENTING ME FROM DOING ANYTHING I WANT TO DO!
I can't wait until people find out who you criminals really are!

I don't use this app all that often and it seems like every time I do I'm almost learning it from scratch again.

Today I want to add another blog. I filled everything out and then, after bothering to do all that, I get a little error box that pops up. There is nothing indicating what the error is. The box has a spot for it but it's empty.Nothing on the page indicates a problem specific to any fields I filled in.

Then I decided to edit an old blog. Actually I should delete it but there's not obvious option to do that so I ended up in edit instead. I submitted something, and I got a page with programming error messages.

I'm not a user who's looking for a lot of advanced features. All I want to do is post blog entries on the profile and the page so I can let people find them from there. But at the moment even this basic functionality seems to be missing.

So where do I put a personal message now, when I send the invitations?   Facebook rarely make changes for the better and am not sure that this will improve anything either.  I liked the way network blogged worked apart from the "only 8" invitations allowed which made it very hard with 50 something friends requests a day!   regard Marie xx  http://www.facebook.com/Naiveartbymarie

syndication doesn't work - see details at: http://technical.sabhlokcity.com/2011/09/authentication-error-on-networked-blogs/

basically i get the following error message and nothing works.

I cannot get my blog feed to pull my new blog message.  I hit "pull" and nothing happens.  What is up?  This has been an ongoing problem off and on.  Can you comment on this?

my blog has also stopped pulling feed with no changes on my part whatsoever ... it just quit one afternoon ....

I have tried twice to invite NEW friends but it seems that 'Friends to Invite' includes everyone, both old and new friends. I don't want to bother the old friends with multiple invitations so am not inviting anyone. Have I missed something or is that option there?

Thanks, Waleed

Laura

My old blog feed is back - it had been changed some time ago. I hesitate to do anything here in case I make the situation worse, though. There is a redirect that means the blog is found but I wonder if others things have changed?

When I went to invite followers there is no option to invite new friends?!?! Will this change as it's going to annoy the hell out of people if you keep inviting them if you can't remember who you've invited. A pretty ridiculous decision to not have that included... I don't mind change (if it's useful and works) but please don't follow the Facebook way of just seemingly stuffing around for the sake of it.

Hi this was already asked but not answered..whats with the number of impressions dropping so dramatically? I was averaging 3000 through publishing to a community campaign page...now its showing between 100 and 150 each post. Separate comments still show the 3k impressions. Is this a networked blogs change issue or a fb change issue?

I second Paul's comment. I think this is the biggest deal of them all. The number of impressions is directly related to how many people are seeing my blog posts. The huge drop has decreased my blog traffic by over 75%. Please clarify how this will be fixed. 

All the changes are terrible.. I have 1300 followers on network blogs. but am thinking about getting out of it.. and doing something else.. what an irritant.. what a mess.... I hate all your changes...

Change as much as we all hate it is the one thing we can count on in life, so I try to be open to it. I am finding that it is still so slow it stalls my computer for a long time. Also I was not given an option to add a personal message which I always do. In addition the old version did not list people who you all ready invited, I think this is extremely important so we aren't driving people nuts with repeated invites although we should have an option to re-invite people if we want to. And lastly I didn't get any confirmation it was sent, so I have no idea if the invitations really went out.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to make comments. I love networked blogs and recommend it to all my fellow digi scrappers. The most useful feature is that it can post all my blog posts to fb and twitter, saving me time! Thanks for a wonderful app!

Still nothing going on with Chrome.  Can't log in, can't see a button.  Only been happening since the changes have been made, so I know it's nothing on my end.  I'm not switching browsers just so I can use this feature.

Ann, I know for a fact that facebook exists as a tool to track and trace those who use it! The mainstream media reported that it was purchased by the NSA, (look it up yourself...those mainstream articles still exist) while excluding that it was for that specific purpose! LOL. This became more and more apparent as it tried to steer people into only actually befriending people "you actually know" and other similar things. As someone who regularly exposes government and media corruption, they have really been messing with me! They were reducing my ability to invite people to follow my blog to only 8 per day, just before this last major "change" to the blog interface. They totally reduced my ability to befriend anyone I chose to a minimum, and now I cant do much of anything, except accept invites from others. It's so obvious what's going on here, and that people who are using this tool as a way to expose corruption are being harassed! Allot of my "friends" here on facebook who do the same have literally reported the same types of things! These "changes" and "problems" are mostly not accidents. It's obvious that facebook's primary existence is to serve a purpose for the government, on the guise of it being a "social networking" tool. Facebook is now, and may have always been simply a tool to help these corrupt government institutions track and trace us in the name of "terrorism" on the back of false flag terror!
I guarantee you Waleed will NEVER admit this, if he even realizes it himself...so you're better off just waiting to see how they eventually manipulate this app, and facebook in general so that they can try to control how people interact with each other.

Waleed,

Figured it out -- I had the Facebook Disconnect extension installed in Chrome, once I disabled it, everything worked fine.  Of course, this means Facebook can once again track the sites I go to, which doesn't exactly thrill me.

I like the new profile much better. I'd like to see the titles in something other than black though. They just don't look like links to me. Thanks.

Ya va siendo hora que facebook y networked tengan la información de sus páginas en español. es una lata tener que traducir constantemente.

My blog post will not post on Follower's News Feed.  It will only show on the FB PAGE and Twitter. But it will not add to any Newsfeed, and there is no manual way for me to even manually publish the post "as" my FB page.

Impressions have also decreased two 1/3 of before these changes!

People get to my blog almost solely through their Facebook Follower's News Feed. Having it not show up in a NewsFeed is probably the main reason for the LOW low impressions. Others complaining of low impressions-this may be why for you to: check to see, chances are your last posts since these FB changes never made it to your Followers' Newsfeeds!!

Julia, I think we have to find alternate ways to have our blog posts appear on news feeds. If anybody has any methods that they are implementing please share. 

Well, there isn't much point to using Network Blog App at all then, is there? Isn't the main use syndication to followers?

What I've just done is bypass Networked Blogs the old fashioned way, and just manually synidcate myself (AKA sharing a link to that specific blog post)

If this doesn't fix, I might just removed the App altogether.

This doesn't solve the problem though...many of my Friends are not "Followers" and most of my "Followers" are not Friends! So there is really no way to have a blog post reach a follow at all right now, unless they happen to be a friend too and you manually make a status post link to your blog. NOT GOOD!

I joined one week ago. My widget is messed up and doesnt look right on my other wise very pretty blog. why is it duplicating, showing me and my one other follower so far two times, once at the top and once at the bottom. it looks WRONG. i'm tempted to just delete it instead of having something not working on my blog. questions sent to FAQ and help have garnered no response :-) and for the record, i am very versed in IT and did install it correctly; it would appear there might be something wrong with the code that was generated for my blog. (i use blogger). ....help would be appreciated.

Boa Tarde!

Bem não consigo ver as atualizações do meu blog aqui. Faço um post novo e eles não aparece aqui. Porque? O que devo Fazer.

Obrigada!

Thanks Waleed, but what about the bigger issue: why blog posts do no appear in Follower's Newsfeeds?

I'm still getting the issue everyone else is -- I can manually syndicate to one Facebook feed and the window will go away, but if I do a second one, they window doesn't clear.  It still syndicates, and I only have two feeds I post to, but if I had a third, I wouldn't be able to do it.

It also later shows I've only syndicated it once, even though it shows up in both feeds. 

I support your progress!!  I know bugs happen.  Please forgive me if I missed this but it seems as though every one of my friends can be invited to follow my blog again but I certainly do not want to annoy those that I have invited in the past but who do not want to follow.  Are you going to be able to block those that have been invited but did not reply?  I hope I am making myself clear.  :)

Shane

Thankyou Waleed.

This was supposed to be easier? It was easier when I had one step to pull my profile and then I could re syndicate posts. How in the world do you do that now?

Just tried inviting people and note, like someone above, that there is no confirmation that invitations were sent.

my problem is the worst, when i clicked on the link of my blog on NetworkedBlogs, it showed nothing but this:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/_webapp25.py", line 701, in __call__
    handler.get(*groups)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.353746837374754034/website/source.py", line 51, in decorated
    return func(myself, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.353746837374754034/utils.py", line 213, in decorated
    getattr(parent_handler, func.__name__)(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.353746837374754034/website/source.py", line 51, in decorated
    return func(myself, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.353746837374754034/website/source.py", line 219, in get
    self.render('source.html', context)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.353746837374754034/utils.py", line 251, in render
    self.response.out.write(self.render_to_string(template_name, context))
  File "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.353746837374754034/utils.py", line 530, in render_to_string
    return super(PageHandler, self).render_to_string(template_name, context)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.353746837374754034/utils.py", line 255, in render_to_string
    context = self.update_context(template_name, context)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.353746837374754034/website/source.py", line 88, in update_context
    if self.viewer and self.source:
  File "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.353746837374754034/utils.py", line 477, in viewer
    user_oauth_code, config.FACEBOOK_APP_ID, config.SECRET_KEY)
  File "/base/data/home/apps/networkedblogs/7.353746837374754034/lib/facebook.py", line 313, in get_access_token_from_code
    urllib.urlencode(args))
  File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data)
  File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 387, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 498, in http_response
    'http', request, response, code, msg, hdrs)
  File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 425, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 360, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 506, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.get_full_url(), code, msg, hdrs, fp)
HTTPError: HTTP Error 400: Bad Request

now i can't invite anyone to follow my blog, my blog disappeared literally. can it be fixed ASAP. thanks

You guys have really screwed this up.. and it keeps getting WORSE!...

Worse and worse... and worse...

 I'm all in favor of making necessary changes, and yes, I do believe that there are some changes that are long over due. However, since you haven't told us what you plan, I'm not certain if the changes I think you should make will be made. Therefore, I suggest that in the future you send out a survey to those bloggers that use your system.

I feel that I must mention that although I like being able to send invitations to all my FB friends, I prefer knowing if I have already invited them to join a blog since I don't want to become a nuisance.

Lastly, I hope that whatever has been curtailing my ability to announce new blog posting within the FB system is rectified. And for heavens sake, once the system recognizes us bloggers can we please be allowed to post without being asked to play guess what these letters spell 15 time only to discover that the system knows us but will not let us post! The lack of posting through NetworkedBlogs has caused me to post my blogs latest columns on my FB page.