IP Blogs vs 4.0 Blogs...what s the difference?

[Christophe]

A colleague of mine has been reading the IP.Blog page on the homepage and is asking where those features shown in the screenshots are?

Will you update the Blogs app or update the promo page to reflect 4.0 instead of IP.Blog?

At the moment it looks like the old version could have had multiple users for a single blog and that the current one does not...unless I missed something

Is this now a permission issue where you need to create a group for that unique blog? Not sure I can do that with hundred of thousands of members wanting to create groups

 

[Joel R]

Think of 4.0 blogs as the more deprecated, reduced version with even less features than 3.4 blogs .

You think I'm joking but ... I'm not.

[chilihead]

Is the "company" blog feature gone too? Multiple authors?

Don't they use it on this site? So it has to be there,

[Joel R]

Collaborative blogging is probably still a feature, since they use it on this community.  

[Shariq Ansari]

Think of 4.0 blogs as the more deprecated, reduced version with even less features than 3.4 blogs .

You think I'm joking but ... I'm not.

@Joel R - Can you do a bullet-point style enumeration of specifically what's been lost relative to 3.4.X?

[socceronly]

Is it just short on features wrt to the new version being green, or actually deprecated in that it's no longer being developed/used?

Those are two really different things.

[Myr]

This might be a little off... but it's close.

Key IP.Blog Features

Blog Homepage

• Two homepage views 
• Features entries
• Inline blog moderation
• Pin blogs to homepage
• Top 10 stats
• Set blogs as favorite
• Rate blogs & entries

Blogging

• Group blogging
• Private blogs
• Import entries via RSS
• Content blocks (ready-made & custom)
• Post remotely via Blogger & Metaweblog

Customization

• CSS themes
• Members can customize CSS themes

Content Discovery

• Combined & individual RSS feeds
• Follow blogs & entries
• Entry Tagging
• Trackbacks
• "Blog This" button in IP.Board posts
• Share entries to social networks

I  and others have tried getting features put back in to no avail:

 

 

[Joel R]

You bring up a good point @socceronly and as an outside observer, I'm obviously not privy to their internal discussion on features. So its hard for me to definitely state if its just an immature product or if its deprecated.  

But have you seen or heard of major blog updates coming? I haven't.  And I can tell you that the other applications are highly comparable to their predecessors, whereas iPS 4 blogs are almost bare bones.  The new blogs may still be satisfactory for your commumity, but I don't see IPS supporting a full feature blog application.  

[iozay]

This might be a little off... but it's close.

Key IP.Blog Features

Blog Homepage

• Two homepage views - Gone by default
• Features entries
• Inline blog moderation
• Pin blogs to homepage
• Top 10 stats Moved to suit wide top 10. App specefic top 10 doesn't exist anymore.
• Set blogs as favorite  Replaced with follow
• Rate blogs & entries  Blog rating still possible.

Blogging

• Group blogging
• Private blogs Still possible(Only members I choose can read this blog)
• Import entries via RSS
• Content blocks (ready-made & custom) -Still possible via pages, global blocks are still possible as a part of the core. There aren't a lot blog app specefic blocks though
• Post remotely via Blogger & Metaweblog -Not possible without RSS

Customization

• CSS themes Suit wide css themes are still possible, blogs specefic themes are not.
• Members can customize CSS themes Not possible

Content Discovery

• Combined & individual RSS feeds
• Follow blogs & entries
• Entry Tagging
• Trackbacks
• "Blog This" button in IP.Board posts
• Share entries to social networks

I  and others have tried getting features put back in to no avail:

 

 

​Some additions

[Shariq Ansari]

Mmmmph.

Thanks for the specifics.

IPS really need to clarify if these are intentional removals of features/functionality, or if they were temporarily streamlined out just to expedite the transition to 4.0, with the intention of bringing back feature parity ASAP...