Comment Issues

So I can tell from my SiteMeter that some folks with regular Blogger accounts are having trouble commenting here now that I've switched to Blogger Beta. And I'm incapable of commenting via my account on a non-Beta blog (but I've gotten around that by commenting anonymously.) I figured I would post here the latest updates and workarounds from Blogger as to both situations, just in case people are getting frustrated about their inability to comment:

Users are seeing errors when posting comments with current Blogger accounts to blogs on the new version of Blogger in beta. Until we fix this, the workaround is to preview the comment before publishing. (You only need to preview once per account.)

Update (9/13): This issue has been re-written to clarify the core bug and offer the workaround.

— latest update on Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Users who have switched to Blogger in beta will not be able to login to comment on blogs that have not switched. Commenting using the “anonymous” or “other” options will still work.

Update (9/12): We have started working on making this possible, however the change is substantial and will take a little while before it is ready.

— latest update on Tuesday, September 12, 2006

So basically, those of you who want to comment here but haven't gone Beta yet just need to preview your comment first and it should work. I, however, get to wait for ages and ages before I can comment the old-fashioned way again. Oh well.