Commenters: learn how to change your Engadget password, edit your profile

Did you know you could change some of the information in your Engadget / Weblogs, Inc. profile, including your password? We know, it's some crazy crap that every other site on the internets has had for years, but we do it too, and it just so happens it's not a very well documented feature. Until now, that is. On your Engadget profile page you can:

• Change your comment password
• See all the comments you've left on various Weblogs, Inc. network sites, like Engadget, Joystiq, Autoblog, etc.
  
• Change reply notifications on your comment threads
  
• Add or change your avatar picture (shown only on some sites, like Joystiq, and soonly Engadget)
  

Read on to learn how to do all this fun stuff (and more).

1. Leave a comment, or find the last comment you left. Your handle / name will be linked to the URL of your profile, which will look like: http://www.blogsmith.com/profile/[PROFILE NUMBER]/. The date / time is the permalink for the comment itself, so you'll want to hit the profile link to visit your profile (duh).
   
   
   
   
2. On your profile page you'll see lots of information about your comment history. You can also hit "... Login Here" to log in and make changes to your profile. Even though this profile system is still relatively new, it will show the comments you've ever left. [Engadget trivia nerds will know I've have actually been commenting since we started in 2004. Apparently my account changed in July of 2005.]
   
   
3. Once you're in you can do a number of things, including make edit your profile (and make it private); add an avatar picture (offensive / inappropriate avatars may result in a banned account); even change your comment password (huzzah!).
   
   Important note: logins on Engadget and Weblogs, Inc. sites are not persistent, so you'll have to enter your comment password each time you leave one. (We're working on improving that experience, of course.)
   
   
   
   
4. Other fun things you can do: disable reply notification on comment threads you've started and see a list of all the comments you've left.
   

P.S. -Yes, we hear you: as we said multiple times in this post and in comment, we're constantly trying to improve our reader experience and are still working on adding new features, specifically persistent user logins, etc. We'll let you know when it's done!

[Stan @ Nov 10th 2007 9:35PM]

just trying it out.

[nerdtalker @ Nov 10th 2007 10:39PM]

Thank you engadget, finally we don't have to remember an obscure password.

This functionality is much appreciated. I think everyone welcomes it.

[Josh @ Nov 10th 2007 10:41PM]

When i found out about a month ago on some obscure post i definitely thought this was amazing - and i still do.

Will we be able to edit comments in the future?

[Peter @ Nov 10th 2007 11:13PM]

It's kind of funny that the tech related weblog just posted about it, when it has been being used on Joystiq for months.

[Evan @ Nov 10th 2007 11:31PM]

sadfasdfg

[Ryan Block @ Nov 10th 2007 11:52PM]

Peter, Joystiq got a better treatment of this same feature when they got their recent redesign. We're long overdue for the same stuff, but people were getting fed up with the crappy old system, so I'm trying to lend 'em a hand in the mean time.

[Andrew @ Nov 11th 2007 12:00AM]

Neat

[Daniel Smith @ Nov 11th 2007 12:09AM]

adsf

[Jonathan @ Nov 11th 2007 12:23AM]

test

[Andrew @ Nov 11th 2007 12:41AM]

test

[Steve Ehrenberg @ Nov 11th 2007 1:05AM]

test

[rTwelve @ Nov 11th 2007 1:27AM]

So will the default avatar still be Paper Mario? :P

[ddjxie @ Nov 11th 2007 2:57AM]

test

[RobertT @ Nov 11th 2007 3:11AM]

test

[atomicthumbs @ Nov 11th 2007 3:36AM]

dum de doo

[1w @ Nov 11th 2007 4:57AM]

test

[Stefan @ Nov 11th 2007 5:21AM]

another test

[Garrett @ Nov 11th 2007 5:43AM]

not a test, a totally serious comment. read into it. deeper!

[Laxmanan G @ Nov 11th 2007 5:47AM]

test

[Z @ Nov 11th 2007 6:40AM]

Erm..... the password I use to post comments doesnt allow me to log into my profile...

[ryantrevisol @ Nov 11th 2007 8:47AM]

I like how the post is worded like we could always do this . . .

[barnz2k @ Nov 11th 2007 8:52AM]

woohoo

[eugene @ Nov 11th 2007 8:53AM]

changing the pw now... i hate having to copy/paste that mess from my email, bc i can't be bothered to memory 7 random letters

[Jared Harley @ Nov 11th 2007 9:18AM]

gnitset

[Derry Quinn @ Nov 11th 2007 9:35AM]

Yai!"

[JoeStalin @ Nov 11th 2007 9:40AM]

Test Message

[JoeStalin @ Nov 11th 2007 9:41AM]

Test Message

[JLTate @ Nov 11th 2007 10:47AM]

oh em gee, teh aple bias!!2 go back to tuaw!@#, apple lusersrd!!1

[Jake Tobak @ Nov 11th 2007 11:05AM]

I don't believe it.

[Simon @ Nov 11th 2007 11:41AM]

testes

[iNap @ Nov 11th 2007 12:16PM]

hey hey

[Hans Luijten @ Nov 11th 2007 1:42PM]

Wow, nice!

[Notung @ Nov 11th 2007 2:31PM]

Nice

[Elvite @ Nov 11th 2007 3:40PM]

Testing

[Dave @ Nov 11th 2007 4:17PM]

testing

[Kyle @ Nov 11th 2007 5:31PM]

One more test.

[Nick @ Nov 11th 2007 6:59PM]

Pop tarts.

[narco @ Nov 11th 2007 7:01PM]

i like how i've been a member longer than ryan block himself. i don't know how i got #285.

Fishes,
narco.

[EDR229 @ Nov 11th 2007 7:02PM]

logins FTW!

[AL @ Nov 12th 2007 4:57AM]

Now then will this work...

[DaemonZ4 @ Nov 12th 2007 10:30AM]

Bout time! Thanx Engadget!

[tiuk @ Nov 12th 2007 12:16PM]

Awesome, it's about time.

[anonymouspimp @ Nov 12th 2007 3:21PM]

test

[Devin @ Nov 13th 2007 9:29AM]

jkl;

[vkv.raju @ Nov 14th 2007 4:52PM]

Test

[vkv.raju @ Nov 14th 2007 4:52PM]

Test

[roulette843 @ Nov 16th 2007 7:59PM]

yo

[andrew @ Nov 19th 2007 9:20PM]

I wanted to try it out as well.

[Stefan @ Nov 23rd 2007 6:57PM]

test

[Uncle Fungal @ Nov 27th 2007 12:48AM]

testes