Due to unforeseen technical circumstances (it broke without anyone touching it, honestly!) the Google Friend Connect option has been temporarily taken off of the Echo comments login list.
Well, actually that exact option is permanently off because Google seem to have retired it. Ooops.
We are currently chasing Echo to see if there will be a Google alternative via them. We’re also looking at other ideas up to and including other comment systems…all options are up for discussion; offers of assistance or just good old fashioned sympathy/suggestions/abuse in the Comments below.
Apologies for the inconvenience. Hopefully a solution will be found quickly.
ASE, I can offer sympathy, even abuse should you wish, but alas no suggestions as of yet.
Good luck in finding a quick solution and thank-you.
Keep calm? When I watch the BBC, this picture is much more apt…
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Well, in the end I created a false Twitter account that I have no intention of using. Is there any way of linking this login to my old account? I can view all the posts made with my Google account but there seems no way to log in to it from elsewhere.
It seems to be a rule that as software and internet companies grow bigger, they reach a certain critical mass where they appear intent on pissing off all their previously loyal users.
Hurrah!!!!!!!
I managed to create a Yahoo account.
After a week of not being able to comment/like I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms! =-O
I guess I’ve kissed goodbye to my comments history, though. Never mind.
Wondered where you’d gone, Reed. Welcome back! I’ve also just opened a Yahoo account. Registration asked for my Google details & that was it. I still seem to have access to previous comments; a facility which I probably share with the Bad Thought Police. Never mind.
Good to be back! Thanks.
I expect we’re all already on a government database somewhere, so just go with the flow and we’ll all meet up in the re-education camp. =-O
Aha! Thank you for that tip, jarwill. I created a Yahoo account, linked it to my Google account and seem to be back in to my old one.
Looks like I now have a redundant Twitter account.
Had to open a Twitter account, much to my disgust…
Sort of in complement, the gift that keeps on giving that is BBC Editors and social media obsession..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/03/bbc_news_facebook_app.html
It’s going well for them so far, don’t you think?
It seems some posters there are being threatened with the naughty step.
Which is a bit rich given the comments you highlighted on the Open Thread as having been allowed through elsewhere.
Methinks they doth protest too much.
GRR Could not log in for nearly a week
Not best pleased at having to join the ranks of the Twitterati.
Call me a conspiracist but these things probably happen for a reason.
Well so be it, Twitter, Google, Facebook, Bill Gates, the ghost of Steve Jobs, the CIA, FBI, Special Branch, the Russians, Chinese, bearded hackers from Dewsbury/Pakistan, that white-haired Swedish bloke and not forgetting the BBC – read em and and weep!
Ressurected an old yahoo account. Ah, well. I’m taking consolation in the fact that Google also decided to kill their project intended to drive down the price of alternative fuels. Guess it wasn’t that important to them after all. Fuel costs for their corporate jets and fleet of private personal jets for the owners will still remain high. Awww.
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Dont know where my Capri Classic has gone!
Forgot to add thanks to The Eye for dealing with yet another curveball.
Also, for those concerned, it seems that comments history is not lost when one switches login accounts.
I seem to have lost my comment history. Any tips from fellow commenters gratefully received.
I don’t know if I can be of much help. My result might be different because I resurrected a pre-existing yahoo account, rather than creating a new one. The comment log in box remembered me immediately, all previous comments intact. Like you, I was previously on Google, and I think the two were linked already. Perhaps you have another old account somewhere else? Open ID or similar?
I only had the Google account previously. I’m wondering if there was an option that I should have clicked when creating my new Yahoo account that would have imported the history. My fault I’m sure – the result of not really knowing what I’m doing and not paying enough attention. :-E
Reed – I created a new Yahoo account before realising it could be connected to Google. You can connect to Google via your account settings. I forget exactly how I did it I’m afraid, so you’ll have to search!
tried to connet Yahoo (which I had created especially)to Google and failed. I now have so many accounts with lord knows what passwords that any estimate of the number of people on the planet based on logins will have doubled.
just testing my login and comments history to see how I fare…
That’s interesting…I am shown as Guest but with no comments history. This time my username should show…
Still no comments history.
I created a blog on Blogger from my Google account and got logged in that way. I do not intend to use the blog.
Yahoo it is, then. Seems odd Google abandoning gmail support.
Don’t know if this helps but I notice on the left side of the webpage – under ‘Followers of Biased BBC’, there is still the option to sign in with Google Friend Direct.
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I hate the BBC.
Aha! Thank you for that tip, jarwill. I created a Yahoo account, linked it to my Google account and seem to be back in to my old one. hostal en barcelona
How did you link the new Yahoo account to your old Google one? I’ve missed a trick here. :-E