A couple months ago I stopped being able to post comments on Blogger posts using OpenID/Typepad credentials. Maybe there was an update to the Blogger platform, not sure, but it's been frustrating.
So tonight I happened to see a post from someone on Wordpress with the same problem, and one commenter had a good answer that I'll repost here. I think this is right... I can post comments to blogs that have enabled user name + URL. Most of this answer is techno-babble but if you follow, here ya go. Just in case you've seen a drop in comments, this might be the issue.
It doesn’t matter what platform you use, the problem is with OpenID (in short, it doesn’t work). This means that in order for non-blogger people to comment on a blogger blog, the blog owner can either install disqus (or something similar) which is a cross platform login that allows commentators to keep their own IDs OR have a name+URL option that allows non-blogger commentators to comment (but without maintaining their cross-platform Identities, i.e. Gravatar etc will not work). Or they could just install Gravatar but Google seems to have spotty support for that too. There are massive discussions on online forums about this-commercial sites in particular seen their commenting go up 60% or more after installing cross platform commenting systems/ moving out of blogger. The problem seems to have existed forever and Google (they own Blogger) doesn’t seem to care. The only quick fix is letting the blog owner know either through comments or email so they can do something about it themselves..
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