I don't get it... I just renamed one of my blogs on animanga wiki, no problem.

Did we ever get a link to the specific blog that couldn't be renamed? I didn't see one.

This actually used to be possible - the scenario is moving user blogs into another namespace, like the User namespace. On Community Central, we used to frequently move off topic blogs, but now it's not possible.

The reason it's now prevented is a technical one. User: subpages don't have comments, so where would a moved page's blog comments go? They could go in a talk page, or they could be deleted upon move, but this is unexpected behaviour.

My response:

For admins and discussion moderators, renaming blog post is faster than other user rights, because they have the "rename" option from drop-down next to the edit button.

Anyone can rename their blog post. For non-admins or non-discussion moderators, they manually have to type the URL in order to rename their blog post, just because there is no "rename" button for them to rename directly.

Oh yeah, I picked a blog on a wiki where I have moderator rights because it was the first one I could think of.

Well, hopefully FANDOM gets a clue and enables it for regular users... assuming someone reports this issue.

As to moving the blog via Special:MovePage as suggested by Applemasterespert - I've tried to do so before. I've tried it just now to find the exact message it returns - I cannot move pages in the namespace User_blog. This could be a permissions issue specific to where I'm trying, but I somewhat doubt it; else one of my admins might've solved it by now.

I'm not too sure where to file a report or request with FANDOM staff itself, but I'll give it some thought.

EDIT: This just in. So while I can't move blogs out of blog space itself, I can at least rename them if I keep them as blogs. Well then. That solves some of the self-reliant editing mess.

Oh so this really wasn't just about renaming within the same namespace, but also trying to move the blog out of the blog namespace. The restriction is strange, but it wasn't what I thought it was.

It would have saved some time if you were specific about what you were trying to do rather than have everyone try to guess.

It was actually mentioned in the original post - that they wanted to move it to a User subpage. But yes, it would be easier to resolve the issue if it was clearer :)

Aye, I should've mentioned that I was getting it out of user blogspace first of all.

I guess I see what you are saying. The comments would disappear from the main page. However, since each namespace has a talk namespace, you certainly wouldn't have to delete the actual comment pages.

It wasn't clearly stated. But if you thought about what Fire InThe Hole was asking for, you would eventually realize that in would involve a change in namespace.

As for the eventual resolution of all this, I've been given content moderation rights so as to get my subpages and blogs sorted out in complete self-reliance. And it smells delicious.

I still hope FANDOM might consider changing up how this works, but you'll be rid of me for the time being. Heheh.