The Real Blogger Status

How many of you have used your favourite Internet application recently - and received a convenience login suggestion? To continue, please tell us who you are! Login with your FaceBook, Google, or Twitter account. Many small business Internet services, instead of making you setup one more unknown account, are letting you login, and use their product, based on your FaceBook, Google, or Twitter account. This is not a magical concept. It requires a lot of work, to make this happen.

Last week, Blogger turned off their workaround from June 2015 , that was allowing Windows Live Writer, and other third party editors and auxiliary Blogger services, to access Blogger. All week, we saw various reports of problems, reminiscent of the problems that we saw in June 2015, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue . Yesterday, Blogger Engineering provided a status announcement . We would like to let all users of Windows Live Writer know that Microsoft has made the application open source and it’s now a different application called Open Live Writer ( you will need to download it here ). A few months ago, the Windows Live Writer and Blogger integration stopped working for a few days due to improvements in Google’s authentication systems. We agreed to keep the old authentication systems for a few more months but starting December 11th, they will be retired and Windows Live Writer will stop working. The Open Live Writer team is now working on making OLW use ClientLogin a...

It appears that Scribfire is one more third party product, that needs upgrading to use OAuth 2.0 authentication . We have a report in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue . I use Scribefire to post to my blogs. It works fine with WordPress, but I have not been able to set it up with my Blogger Blog. And later, I have already enabled the "Less secure apps" option. Still no go. This blog owner is patiently trying to diagnose a problem, over which neither he nor we have any control.