MyBlogLog Makes Good on Promises, Releases Updates and Fixes

February 23, 2007 2:29 am

Earlier this week MyBlogLog made a series of promises after an exploit was discovered where you could send someone a request to join their community as a co-author and then automatically approve the request. Today MyBlogLog rolls out a series of updates:

All users now default to only seeing messages from contacts they have made in MyBlogLog. This means that when you log into your account, you may see significantly fewer messages than the last time you were last there. Don’t worry, they haven’t been deleted, just hidden. There’s a button at the top of your message list that toggles between showing messages from your contacts and messages from everyone.

This has several implications on the site:

1) We’re switching back on email notifications for when someone leaves you a message, BUT…
2) When set to “Contacts only” you will only receive email notification when a contact leaves you a message (assuming you have email notifications turned on in your profile).
3) When someone is viewing your profile, they will only see public messages posted by you and your contacts
4) You will always see your own posts when viewing someone else’s profile, even if you aren’t their contact. (We messed this one up initially, so sorry if you weren’t sure if you’d successfully left a message).

This was a serious exploit that definitely needed to be patched, but it’s good to see MyBlogLog still actively being improved after its merger with Yahoo. This was one of the main concerns I had when the news broke. I did not want to see such a great service become the next Measure Map.

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