Blogger added email notification of comment follow-up

Blogger has just added a much sought-after feature in its commenting system - Subscribe to comments via email. What a relief. I actually found out about it while I was posting a comment on my friend's blog. I saw the new "Email follow-up comments" option in her comment box. :# I thought maybe it's a hack that she's using. So, I pinged her up on GTalk and asked what hack has she used. She was dumb-founded; as if I'm speaking latin. Anyways, I headed back to my blog and was replying to a comment there. That was another shock of excitement. That "Email follow-up comments" option was available in my comment box also. That's great. :o

I came back to my blogger dashboard and there it was - the blogger-buzz news.

That's one feature we all have been looking for a long time. Following comments was a real problem earlier for blogspot blogs. Wordpress users were much lucky in this regard. Say, I come upon a random blog post and find it interesting. I leave my views there as comment. Now, I'd surely like to see how others react to my comment. But that was one hell of a job till now. I used to bookmark that page and visit it time and again to check for new comments. Sometimes, I didn't want to do all that task - so simple left my comment and moved on; thus lost track of it. :@ Subscribing to comment feed isn't good enough. But now, the email subscription is here. And with this, following comments is lot more easier. :)

There's some insufficiency though. Only google account holders can use this feature. :( They say -

In order to receive follow-ups via email, you’ll need to post your comment using your Google Account. We only send comments to your verified Google Account so that someone else can’t use this feature to send you email you didn’t sign up for.

Well, their argument is viable. But still, it robs others of the chance of email follow-up. Same option for others would be appreciated.

Anyways, one more feature that we all are expecting Google to integrate. That is - providing the comment box just under the post - just like wordpress blogs. That way - we can write a comment from the post page itself and won't have to navigate to a separate page for that. That's a really bad drawback of blogspot. Hope google see to it soon. :$