While I wasn’t looking, WordPress turned off about half the blogs I follow. I had reduced the frequency of notifications from instant to daily, but I guess WordPress was feeling helpful, so they further reduced it to nothing at all.
I thought maybe everyone was on vacation or had given up blogging. At the same time.
So I’m back and so are you. Just so you know.
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I don’ know whether I m there or not. Just came back and logged in today. wrote a post and got likes and comments too, means I am there. Or not…confused. It is so scary every time.
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The Reader seems to do a decent job of keeping me informed of all of the reading material I’ll never get around to fully consuming… but I’ll be happy when they’re done tweaking the buttons on it. For about a week, there was no way to actually jump from the Reader to the post itself without taking a non-intuitive intermediate step. For once, at least, WordPress did address that issue…
Oh, welcome back!
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You are one of the few people that WordPress didn’t disconnect.
I don’t use the reader. I don’t like having WordPress refereeing my reading. I think it’s possible WordPress is responsible for the “redesign” of the museum in Cooperstown. That would explain why they went for style without considering how it would impact visitors.
Or maybe just stupidity. You can never overestimate the impact of sheer stupidity.
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You came back. Why? A Woman like you…to a place like this. Why?
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I wondered why my readership seems to have fallen off recently. Now I can blame it on WordPress, and not on my inability to keep everyone interested. Thanks, Marilyn.
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EVERYONE’S readership is way off. I think they’ve changed the way they count it again. About every 3 months, they do this. Then it goes back up again. I don’t get it.
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Am I here?
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Yes. You were among the missing.
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Glad you found me 🙂
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You were one of the main reasons I was sure something was wrong. Other people were missing, but I was pretty sure they were away … but not you. So I checked. Voila.
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The “like” button now is occasional, sometimes only at the first post made, and never to be seen again. Now you understand why I stick with Blogger, much as I would love to have a blog here…
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I wish they would stop fixing what isn’t broken and address issues that actually could use improvement. But I’ve given up saying stuff because it’s a waste of effort. They are not going to do it.
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WP tends to get hysterical when you ask them to please PLEASE stop sending every sneeze, every cough, every single post that was ever made, a steady stream…so they do, indeed, shut down the entire thing. Im afraid to start them up again.
I was getting duplicates for everyone over here that I follow, so I unsubcribed from the older ones and cut back on the following. Now the “Follow Me” folder on my computer is empty. sigh.
Ask for one, you get hundreds. Ask to have it pared back, they sulk and take them all back. Which is why I make sure who I follow is in my Blogger follow list. sigh.
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They get nasty. And then they stop sending anything. They don’t send me anything anyhow. I’ve been here too long. Except for my annual reminder that I’m still blogging, I’m not on their radar. They like newbies, not folks like me.
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Big brother trying to help us again not realizing or caring that people of a certain age would prefer less tweaking. 🙂
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I would just like things that are USEFUL, not bells and whistles reduce functionality. But it’s an old, sad song and not worth singing any more. They are, for now, the only game in town.
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I notice I’m seeing people less often too. I’m thinking it’s like Facebook — If you don’t comment on some people’s blogs, they are less likely to show up in your Reader.
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I try … still try … to at least drop by and leave a “like.” I don’t always have something witty to say. There doesn’t need to be some kind of reciprocity. Not 100% … but not 0 either. Finding that balance is VERY challenging.
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Glad you’re back. WP is a slippery construction, all their twiddling with the knuts and bolts.
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Knuts indeed 🙂 They mess around with the interface, but they never address real issues. I want some tools to manage text better. The ability to alter fonts and type size within a post would be a good start. I don’t need another app that lets me download pictures from the phone I don’t use. But a more stable tool for handling graphics would be nice. Not getting it. These are core issues and they do not choose to address them. Easier to make it look pretty and not worry about whether or not it works.
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I don’t what I would do if I couldn’t do my posts first in Windows Photo Gallery blog writer thingy. There’s a lot I don’t understand about the mechanics of WP even when it does work.
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I still have the old editor. If I didn’t, I’d have to use word or something because their new tools are just awful! With each “update,” they make their interface less intuitive, harder to use. They keep removing functionality to make it look their version of pretty. I am convinced that writers don’t care a tuppence for pretty, just useful. But I’m also convinced WordPress is run by 12-year-olds.
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Welcome back. THe weather seems to have cooled.
Leslie
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Yes. A/C is OFF. But the leaves stopped changing. Not just here. In Vermont, too, almost NO color. Weird weather.
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No colour here yet either. We are having cool nights 10’C and warm sunny days 24’C which is very nice. I could take that for another 6 months.
(Don’t I wish!)
Leslie
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ME TOO. I am totally NOT ready for winter. I’m not sure I will ever be ready for winter … but what happened to Autumn?
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It’s a coming.
Leslie
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I’m sure. But late. I hope that’s a good sign.
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I’ll be ecstatic if we don’t get snow until January.
Leslie
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Last year, we didn’t get any until February so I thought we were home free. Hah! How deluded was I!
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February is a great month to go away.
Leslie
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Except we are going in January. Maybe we’ll have a 2-week winter and we’ll miss the whole thing.
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Now you’re talking, Marilyn.
Leslie.
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Yes, they can’t seem to stop themselves from tweaking things lately. There used to be a feature where you could see what WordPress milestones you had reached, number of likes, follows etc. I can’t find it now but only realised it was gone when I got a message from WordPress congratulating me on reaching 1,337 Likes. I thought that was pretty weird until Dennis (Diary of Dennis) explained what it meant in Geek. Now I am wondering if they just do this to yank our chains.
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Just so you know, after you stop being “new,” they don’t communicate with you at all. When you are “successful,” they have NO interest in you at all. Congratulations! You’ve made it. They are ignoring you!
They don’t have any reason for the things they do. They are a company run by a bunch of kids.
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WordPress seems to have been making some odd changes recently. Glad you’re back! I have a site that I’ve never used — I think I’ll have to open it up soon and repost my Xanga posts there too!
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This isn’t the first time they’ve done this. Periodically, I realize I’m not getting any notifications … or that people I read every day aren’t there, so I go look and they’ve been turned off. I think whenever WordPress “fixes” the software, it glitches.
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