About three weeks ago Redleg Nation saw a bit of a change, moving hosting companies from WordPress dot com to another company. The site still runs and uses WordPress, but it’s not hosted with them. One of the changes that we made while doing the switch was set it up so users wouldn’t have their own accounts. There simply was no need for non-authors to have an account to comment on the site, and many users didn’t. But a lot of users did, apparently. And in the last few weeks I’ve gotten about an email a day asking about how someone can log in because they are no longer able to.
In order to comment you do not need to log in (and won’t be able to unless you are an author here at Redleg Nation). Simply fill out the form in the comments section with the required information (name, email address) and type your comment, then hit submit. It’s that simple. Hopefully that clears up things for a few of you who were having troubles.
Nice to be able to comment without an account (like on Redsminorleagues.com).
Anywho,
Keep up the good guys, it is nice to get good Reds info outside the area.
Simple and straight forward … just like we like it.
That is a little easier. Thanks!
Thanks Doug!
Since I’m real new here, thanks for the information.
I have a question, Is there a way that my computer will recognize me and will save my name and email address ? It seems like sometimes it does recognize me and sometimes I need to retype everything.
thank you
That’s usually a web browser thing, not a website thing.
It is a browser feature. Chrome uses the auto fill feature.
Doug & Mark
Thanks,
I am using 2 computers, one at work and the one at home I use Chrome and yep it worked with Chrome.
Mystery Solved !
Well dang it, I use Chrome exclusively and it’s stopped the “auto-fill” part of remembering who I am for each time I comment. I’ve not changed any of my Chrome settings. I’ll poke around a little I guess.
I never had an account under the old design and appreciate not having to have one. It’s most annoying on my phone to retype the user name and email each time. But, like I said, I’ll poke around Chrome a bit.
Something about the site does, however, recognize me, because when I give it my name and email, it pops up ol’ Warden Norton (there – see?) when I submit the comment. Not sure how that works without me having to log in, but…that said, I don’t really care. I like the site, the info, and all y’all to boot.
Go Reds!
Same here, Eric. I was told it has to do with a previous image association. That’s why I will forever get Otto Orange as my avatar.
As a Louisville grad who watched his team play ‘Cuse back in the Rony Seikaly days, I must say that’s not all bad. 🙂
Otto Orange! Not a lot of Syracuse Orange fans who are also Reds fans in Central NY. I have been since 1975 when I was 8! Go Orange and Go Reds!
Hi Doug. Congrats on taking over Redleg Nation. The site could definitely use some expert governance given the ineptitude of the last regime. But, pray tell, despite the embarrassments of your predecessor, I heard through a certain podcast that you are wrong in your assessments the majority of the time. You won’t dispense fake news will you?
Milt Pappas – please come back!!
This makes me sad.
You did a good job, Chad. No one here from the last regime I would not buy a beer and watch a game with them from the Scout Box.
The last regime was not inept at all.
Big supports, and always looked on the bright side.
The only problem, was the asking the Reds to trade for trout.
Lest I be taken seriously…and no one who knows me ever does, my last comment was
farcical. I don’t want Milt Pappas to come back.
Well, given that most people here probably do not know you, that comment was rather mean and unnecessary.
I don’t think Milt Pappas was the problem.
Milt Pappas being acquired for Frank Robinson was the problem.
That’s one of those what if – Frank Robinson wasn’t traded.
Ok, this comment made me laugh.
Well played, sir.
How do I log on to “viewer mail” from the website?
You have to go where the video it at, then login from there
Thanks. Chad was vague on that. So, I followed the link and it took me to the page for UVA athletics! Wahoo!
No comment.
Any way to get the time stamps back? That was a nice feature when looking through comments because if you came back later you had a better idea where you left off?
I will look into it, but I don’t think that’s something that is likely to come back with the new layout.
I don’t know if it was the server switch or what, but the site runs much better now than it did. I had basically quit coming here because of all the issues I had with blogs moving around on the screen, clicking on one article and getting a different one, etc. So glad to see things are back to “normal”
That wasn’t the server switch, but it was a part of the design change.
Doug, Thanks for keeping it simple. It drove me slightly crazy with articles moving and twirling around before.
Testing
Time stamp IS important as previous commentator mentioned.
It’s not THAT important.
It is certainly missed
By those of us who relied on it
I would have left a comment here, but I couldn’t remember my password to log ing.