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!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 4:17PM]

testing

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 5:31PM]

One more test.

[nickells Posted Nov 11th 2007 6:59PM]

Pop tarts.

[(Unverified) Posted 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.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 7:02PM]

logins FTW!

[alibanana Posted Nov 12th 2007 4:57AM]

Now then will this work...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 12th 2007 10:30AM]

Bout time! Thanx Engadget!

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

Awesome, it's about time.

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

test

[devo4040 Posted Nov 13th 2007 9:29AM]

jkl;

[Kasi Viswanath Posted Nov 14th 2007 4:52PM]

Test

[Kasi Viswanath Posted Nov 14th 2007 4:52PM]

Test

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

yo

[andrewkfromaz Posted Nov 19th 2007 9:20PM]

I wanted to try it out as well.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 23rd 2007 6:57PM]

test

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 27th 2007 12:48AM]

testes

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 20th 2007 12:26AM]

testing 1,3,2. I wait, is that not how it goes?

[retarded commenter Posted Dec 20th 2007 12:36AM]

testes

[pk Posted Dec 20th 2007 12:43AM]

Hmm... Test

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 20th 2007 8:07AM]

testing testing 123

[Harlo Posted Dec 20th 2007 8:51AM]

testes testes 1, 2, 3?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 20th 2007 1:46PM]

schweet

[mynando Posted Dec 20th 2007 3:19PM]

Test

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 21st 2007 4:23PM]

what?

[chaosrain Posted Dec 21st 2007 5:00PM]

Updating my profile now...

[whthorse Posted Dec 21st 2007 7:20PM]

test

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 22nd 2007 10:04AM]

Second time!

[samnesral Posted Dec 22nd 2007 5:05PM]

aye

[alexveee Posted Dec 23rd 2007 4:38PM]

adsf

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 23rd 2007 5:13PM]

test

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 23rd 2007 6:49PM]

test comment

[Quispus Posted Mar 26th 2008 12:51PM]

test

[TechGuySteve Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:36PM]

hmm, let's see how this works

[TechGuySteve Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:40PM]

interesting, it's nice to be able to change this password. But, wouldn't it be a lot easier to put a login link at the top of engadget. I'd hate to have to hunt up an old comment in order to login and manage my profile. Just seams a little jankey to me....

[ryan Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:52PM]

As I said in the post, Steve, the feature is largely undocumented and it isn't a persistent login solution (yet) -- adding a login box to the top of the page won't help anyone until our software is there.

People ask us constantly how to change their password, so I'd rather they have half of the solution now since it can take us a little while to roll out new features in full.

[noobsauceage Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:37PM]

woot?

[fernando Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:36PM]

lol @ selecting a comment that you are high ranked in to illustrate the post.

but hey, cool features

[TechGuySteve Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:43PM]

what, do you think an engadget writer would make himself look like an ass on purpose?

[ryan Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:54PM]

No, Steve, that's what I've got commenters like you for! I kid, I kid.

Actually that just happened to be the last comment I left before writing this post.

[Ellianth Posted Nov 11th 2007 10:18AM]

Can I have a cookie for teaching people to do this a couple months ago? :'(

[redman12 Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:37PM]

I was trying to figure that out for awhile...

[nevyn Posted Nov 11th 2007 5:06AM]

Yep, me too

[LiQuiDFuSioN Posted Dec 20th 2007 12:53AM]

For some reason, I can not login to my profile.

I'm using the password that I got from the confirmation emails, but it's not working and I keep getting locked out after more than one failed attempt.

Any way around this, Ryan? Don't mean to be selfish and attach myself to another person's comment, but I see no other choice. :'(

[FX120 Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:38PM]

Wow! So does this mean I will no longer have to open up a Gmail tab, and search for the last email from you guys to look up my password from now on?!?!?

[Sublime865 Posted Nov 10th 2007 10:48PM]

Its almost as effective to just use the new users half and confirm it. They still get posted under your account. Google your name (if you used it) and all your replies will come up!

[ryan Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:55PM]

Well, until we get persistent user logins, it was / still is recommended that you use your browser's password manager to save and enter your password for you whenever leaving a comment.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 1:37AM]

yeah i had to do this too... yaay.

[3rdsun Posted Nov 11th 2007 11:33AM]

Dont you know how to save your password in the browser. If that is not working use a sticky notes widget and write the password there. this is a long time in coming though.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 10th 2007 9:40PM]

Hmm...

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 11th 2007 7:13AM]

Meh, test!