We’ve resolved the bugs with user sign-in for our blogs. It’s back on here. It will begin rolling out to our other blogs this afternoon and tomorrow.
UPDATE: You’ll see the sign-in links at bottom come and go as we use this blog to test our changes to the sign-in system. Thanks for your patience.
We’ve discovered a bug in the sign-in system we’re planning to deploy on all our blogs. We had been testing it on this blog, but we’ve now taken it down. We’ll keep you posted.
About two months ago, we began requiring Kansas.com users to log in to post comments on our stories on the main site. While that decreased our comment traffic substantially, it also slowed to a trickle the complaints we receive about the comments, and the tone of our comment boards has improved markedly. We’re glad we did it.
Because blogs like this one are hosted on a separate platform, it has taken us a little longer to bring that same log-in requirement to the comments here. But we’ve finally figured it out. We’re testing the log-in functionality on this blog’s comments first. As the week progresses, we’ll turn on the sign-in system for our other blogs, including our most popular one, WE Blog.
The sign-in system is the same one on our main site. Most users won’t be asked to sign in, and you’ll be able to read the blogs and the comments as always. Like the main site, if you view a substantial number of pages — about 44 over four days right now — you’ll be asked to sign in as a Kansas.com member, or to register if you haven’t already. If you wish to make a comment on one of the blogs, you will have to be a Kansas.com member, and you’ll have to be signed in.
If you have any trouble, please let us know as soon as possible.
Beginning Friday, Feb. 1, we’ll require users of Kansas.com to log in to the site to make a comment on a story.
This has long been suggested by our users as a way to limit the number of profane, violent and generally irresponsible comments made on our comment boards. And for almost just as long, it has been our goal to institute such a system. Now that site registration has debuted on Kansas.com and several thousand of you have registered, it is possible for us to do this.
If you are not logged in, you’ll be able to read the story comments; you just won’t be able to make one. Once you are logged in, your Kansas.com username will be automatically signed to any comment you make. For now, this only applies to comments on stories on our main www.kansas.com site. We plan to have a similar system in place for our blogs, on blogs.kansas.com, within a couple of weeks. Our discussion forums, which have always required a separate log-in, are not changing.
If you’re not already registered as a Kansas.com user, now is a great time to do that. Start at http://www.kansas.com/register/.