One of the strangest cases of confusion, exhibited in Blogger Help Forum: How Do I?, comes from people who only want to remove a blog from their Reading List, using the "Manage Blogs I'm Following" wizard.
To remove blogs from your Reading List, click on the gear icon to the far right of "Reading list", on your dashboard.
Start with the "gear" icon, to the far right of "Reading List".
This gives you Blogger: Manage Blogs I'm Following, which contains an inventory of all Followed blogs, by blog title. Alternately, try Google Friend Connect: Sites I've joined. You may be able to use the latter, when the former does not perform.
In many cases, you'll see the unwanted blog, listed in "Manage Blogs I'm Following".
If you don't immediately see the title of the blog that you are trying to remove, in the "These are the blogs and sites" list, don't worry. Go to the Reading List and look at each individual blog in the list, one by one, until you find the problem content - then look at the title used by the problem blog. Always start with the correct title.
Having the title of the problem blog, go to the list of blogs by title, and "Settings".
Once you know the correct title, go back to the Blogger / Friend Connect inventory, and find that title in the list. Click on "Settings", next to the title.
When you click on "Settings", you may have to login to Following / "Friend Connect". If you have to login, select "Google" - then use the correct Blogger account name and password.
The "Stop following" link is in the popup window, for the blog.
In the popup window for the correct title, you'll find the Basics tab selected, with your profile displayed. Beneath the display of your profile, you'll find the title of the blog again - and to the right of that (possibly requiring that you stretch the width of the popup window), you'll find the link "Stop following this site". Click on the link, hit "Stop Following" to confirm, and you're done.
Just don't waste time looking for a trash can icon - if you don't see the unwanted blog, immediately.
I can't remove a blog from the Reading List - there is no trash can in the Manage wizard!Here, I'll advise you to not look for a trash can icon, for some blogs.
To remove blogs from your Reading List, click on the gear icon to the far right of "Reading list", on your dashboard.
Start with the "gear" icon, to the far right of "Reading List".
This gives you Blogger: Manage Blogs I'm Following, which contains an inventory of all Followed blogs, by blog title. Alternately, try Google Friend Connect: Sites I've joined. You may be able to use the latter, when the former does not perform.
In many cases, you'll see the unwanted blog, listed in "Manage Blogs I'm Following".
If you don't immediately see the title of the blog that you are trying to remove, in the "These are the blogs and sites" list, don't worry. Go to the Reading List and look at each individual blog in the list, one by one, until you find the problem content - then look at the title used by the problem blog. Always start with the correct title.
Having the title of the problem blog, go to the list of blogs by title, and "Settings".
Once you know the correct title, go back to the Blogger / Friend Connect inventory, and find that title in the list. Click on "Settings", next to the title.
When you click on "Settings", you may have to login to Following / "Friend Connect". If you have to login, select "Google" - then use the correct Blogger account name and password.
The "Stop following" link is in the popup window, for the blog.
In the popup window for the correct title, you'll find the Basics tab selected, with your profile displayed. Beneath the display of your profile, you'll find the title of the blog again - and to the right of that (possibly requiring that you stretch the width of the popup window), you'll find the link "Stop following this site". Click on the link, hit "Stop Following" to confirm, and you're done.
Just don't waste time looking for a trash can icon - if you don't see the unwanted blog, immediately.
Comments
I haven't been able to reduce my blog list for months because of this.
Do you have a discussion in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken? If not, can you please start one, so we can diagnose this?
Either you have a problem with third party cookies, or you have two different Blogger accounts. Why not post in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, so we can discuss this easier?
I have not been able to use the gear icon as it kept giving me an error message, but now, thanks to the http://www.google.com/friendconnect/user/overview link that you gave I can remove those blogs I no longer want to follow. I have been trying for over a year!
These are the blogs you are following and sites you've joined with FriendConnect. Learn more
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If the Blogger: Manage Blogs I'm Following wizard does not work for you, use Google Friend Connect: Sites I've joined
http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2013/01/blog-readers-report-inability-to-remove.html
Oddly enough while trying to connect directly to friends connect or manage the reading list from blogger overview, results in an error message and has for almost more than a year for me.
Thanks again, really appreciate the great work.
It's much appreciated.
Cheers.