Remember the good old days a week ago when the WordPress browsing pages worked correctly and it was easy to find the blogs you were subscribed to? Remember when you could just scroll down and the feeds would keep coming? It was so easy to see what others had posted.
Remember when the Comments Notification worked the same on your site and on the WP main page? It looked the same, worked the same, and didn’t freak out? Wasn’t it helpful? I kind of liked it when they added this feature. I didn’t have to go to my dashboard to view responses to comments I’d made. They’d come along with the notifications. Now it only works correctly on my site. It looks like they may have fixed it, but I still don’t trust the thing.
Remember when images from posts weren’t smeared into unrecognizable goo on the main page? That was nice too. Now they look like crap. What is that thing? A picture of Santa Claus or Justin Bieber? I have no fricken idea.
Remember when the main page didn’t look like some designers idea of a web 2.0 paradigm shift into a reality populated by pastel oblivion? I still haven’t figured out where this whole “let’s make everything flat and simple” concept came from.
Sometimes change is good. This one I don’t particularly care for. Obviously, however, it’s here to stay. Did WordPress perform a usability study on this new look and feel before they pushed the go button on it? I’m sure they did. They must have consulted hundreds of people and compiled usability studies and surveys before deciding to go this route. Will it attract new users? Will existing users come to like it? I have no idea. It doesn’t really matter.
If you don’t like it, wait a few months and it will probably change again.
Filed under: Bitching, Stupid Shit, Technology Tagged: | WordPress Changes
I’m finding the latest changes very hard to navigate and wondering what the goal is. It seems to me that there’s a change every week lately.
I’d just gotten into the habit of looking at the Daily Prompts and Weekly Challenges links at the bottom. Now I can’t find them.
It’s frustrating, but I’ve decided that this is a function of my age and/or maybe my viewing from a desktop or laptop instead of any iThing. I wonder if the changes make it easier to navigate WordPress from your phone.
Not only is it hard to navigate, and funky, but it isn’t working correctly either. Me no likey.
I think it is very horrible. In order to navigate and do what I need to do, I now go to read someone’s post from my email and I get the correct links. When I got to the pages, they are all wrong, but it’s the only way to really find the pages I need quickly.
I don’t like the Reader/Freshly Pressed view at all. One thing is that it’s different from all other views, the other is that’s it seems slower. Sometimes loading the comments in the notifications drop-down box takes forever (or doesn’t happen).
Since those changes were done, I read a lot less posts, I think, just because the navigation is so…ugh.
Yep. And what’s up with everything being flat and pastel? Are they trying to match Microsoft’s Metro display or something? Are gradients and bevels so evil? I like 3D looking interfaces. Not everything needs to be flat and boring.
That too, yeah. Agreed, dood!
I noticed something different but wasn’t sure what it was since I don’t refer to those pages very often. I did notice over the weekend that they loaded very slowly. I have to really want to get to a page to put up with slow loading.
Agreed. I’ve even been having issues submitting posts (as noted by the error message in this post). I had to submit like three times before it finally took. And post comments have been crashing on me too.
I like the comments notification feature. I haven’t noticed too many of the other things of which you speak: I’m not very observant really.
Judging by your blog, I’d have to say you observe a LOT of stuff.
It is a bit shite, yeah?
Aye. But it’s getting better, mate.