Blogger Requires to Write the Title First

I don't know about you, but I like to write the title of the post at the end. It makes sense to pick a title only after writing an article because the title usually summarizes the text. Sometimes I have no idea what's the right title, but it reveals itself after writing the last paragraph.



This post is not about finding the right title for a blog post, it's about a new Blogger feature that shows this message as soon as you start writing a post: "Required field must not be blank". The warning is placed below the title field, but it's not obvious that it refers to the title. Click "ignore warning" and the warning is displayed again in a few seconds.



You can't save, preview or publish post if you haven't picked a title. This is really dangerous: what happens if write a long post and the browsers crashes? Until now, Blogger automatically saved the post as a draft and you could find it. Now it's no longer saved until you write a title.

You could write a temporary title and change it later, but why use a workaround? The title should not be required field. Show a warning before publishing the post and that should be enough. I can write email messages without a subject, but I can't write blog posts without one.



To sum up: here's a feature that's annoying, not useful, dangerous and hard to understand. It's really difficult to come up with something like this, but someone did.