Grouplopnik: Friendly PSA

"Patrick Nichols" (pnichols) 09/10/2015 at 12:47 • Filed to: kinja, group, groupies

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Last week the whole merged group blog creation that !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! was up in the air as far as the functionality.

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I had merged a blog using this method (only with two new sets of credentials) near the end of august and found that I couldn’t add my main account or anyone else’s for that matter as a member to the merged blog. Today I went to check on the other account just for the hell of it and alas the add member feature was there again. So I quickly made myself a member and then the owner.

I’ll share my findings to let !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! know with all of you here:

Merged/Group Blog Update: I just checked again on an attempted merged group blog I made a couple weeks ago and it allowed me to add members where before it did not. It appears either the email I sent to kinja help (along with probably many other users) worked or the functionality just came back as a part of this latest update.

**Disclaimer: I also sent an email a couple weeks ago to kinja help and have no idea whether they switched the settings of my merged blog just for me, though I highly doubt it.

I also feel like there is a joke to be made about group kinja blogs, but can’t seem to think of one... Blorgy? Bukinja?

duurtlang > Patrick Nichols 09/10/2015 at 13:14

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You’re right, and it works. I did the same thing in August, and it didn’t work then. However, with me it works on the wrong account. I can add members to the subblog I sacrificed and used a shitty name for, I cannot add members to the subblog I wanted to use.

Patrick Nichols > duurtlang 09/10/2015 at 14:03

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Sounds like you might have merged from the wrong account, something I also did once accidentally. The second time I made sure I read through gamecat’s post like 10 times before pulling the trigger. Hopefully your url isn’t too useless as I think you should be able to rename the blog itself (similar to changing the visible username but not the domain of your personal kinja page). Live and learn I suppose.

... > Patrick Nichols 09/11/2015 at 11:51

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Wait, you can’t change the URL anymore? I went from whosits.kinja.com to theteapotparty.kinja.com and whosits to I’m a little teapot, short about a year ago.

Patrick Nichols > ... 09/11/2015 at 12:29

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I’m not sure but the domain thing is always greyed out on my personal account settings as well as any of the blogs i’m the owner of

... > Patrick Nichols 09/11/2015 at 12:38

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It's dependent on the username, which you can change.

Patrick Nichols > ... 09/11/2015 at 13:11

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Ah fair enough