Jetée

Blogs are no longer privy to guests, I take it?

I'll guess it must be a recent development, because I do believe it was only earlier this week I was partaking in my routine samplings from roachboy, Galileo Smith's, and Cynthetiq's blogs, when I don't care to log in and just read, yet that's now over, I'm afraid to state.

Will this be a definite moving forward, or was this always intended since day?
Were there complaints about privacy, (which when I finally took it to finding out what's so great about the blog features, then starting one up myself, I noticed that the 'guest viewership' / registered only - reading option, by default, was set to Member's Only, or something to that effect.) or did this come as a consensus staff move for the better?

Just trying to interpret a tiny fraction of the mindset towards the decision.

(does it always come across as though I'm complaining about things with the way I phrase my questions, and in bunches, or is this the over-analytical me, criticizing, who else, but me?)

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