Hello WordPress
Why don’t you just fuck everything up like blogger?
No, I do not want to read topics on my ‘reader’ in an endless bloody list. My reader is for the blogs I am interested in.
Topics are for scanning. JBC – who is advising you on your design moves right now?
Sure as hell ain’t me.
Oh, and forget my offer to write a post for you about intros. As, given your crap new layout I will never need to read again about how someone got out of bed and forgot to write their blog before they made coffee. Which would have been one of my salient ‘what not to write in an intro’ points.
Or something like that.
And you should use Hals for all your computer glitches 🙂
Just saying. Please revert to the status as was. Thank you. A very annoyed wordpress person.
ETA – pic now added to aid clarification.
roughseasinthemed
Clouds moving in 
Thnx. I’ve been perplexed about Reader, and synchronistically just clicked on it to see what the … was happening and saw your post. I say “if it ain’t broke…” but then how would people justify their $$$$ existences…
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What has happened? I mean like seriously? I would flick on topics and find interesting things. I am not prepared to scroll down for ever and a day. What serious stupidity.
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Gosh you are angry! I have to say that I haven’t found a problem with the way ‘Topics’ are laid out and I don’t find scrolling in any way irritating. Are you sure this isn’t just a resistance to change thing? I agree with you about blogger – they really screwed things up but I like the way WordPress tries new things – sometimes they work, sometimes they don’t – for example I preferred the old stats format but I’m getting accustomed to the new one!
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Well yes, I am. And I do find scrolling extremely irritating, I like to scan at a glance. Busy person me. Ah, I am very resistant to change, that’s why I’m no longer in the UK, have changed jobs loads of times and – I love your wind-ups. Must dash. Oh, change isn’t always for the better – or is it? Hey, Cameron was a cool change yes?
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What goes around comes around! Cameron? No not cool (in my opinion), but politics needs continual change to prevent ego-dictatorship – think what might have happened if Thatcher or Blair hadn’t been tipped out of power through change – it doesn’t bare thinking about!
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Yes, politics does need a change. But that isn’t the same as WordPress. And anyway no-one asked for my vote so therefore the change is rubbish.
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Excellent point! I never thought of it that way!
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Indeed, and if they had asked for my vote the change would still be rubbish…..
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You have both been an inspiration for more drivel from the pen, I thank you and genuflect in your direction.
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From WordPress-imposed changes to politics in one easy lesson on this blog 😀
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Obscure connections, one of the things i love about this blogging thing. 🙂
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always happy to obscurely inspire 🙂
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Damn. I never get to blog before coffee, my machine takes too long to boot up.
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Thought you meant your coffee machine there 😉
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Actually the coffee machine is on the verge of mechanical doom, it may blow up as well!
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Life without a coffee machine. Doesn’t bear thinking about..
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I know. Just tragic.
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😀
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Hell, I’m still learning about reader, topics, stats (just found those the other day) and such.. Too new here @ WP to be irritated..yet !
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In which case you missed the better layout of topics before they changed, unless I am the sole victim. I can be irritated at anything, new or not.
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And it isn’t working properly anyway and neither is the ‘Blogs I follow’ page!
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See, should have listened to me. Smirk. Told you so.
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But I just always look at my dashboard and go from there, I subscribe to the KISS principle and get someone to help me out 😉
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Well I like KISS too, and if it ain’t broke as well. But I have to try and find my way around and see what I am missing. Such a nosy person me.
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You and me both, it’s what i am paid for to!
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Just a nuisance when people don’t like you asking nosy questions!
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Looking at WordPress is one of the things on my to do list, along with some other fairly inconsequential things like selling London home, visiting Gibraltar and buying home there!
I tried blogging some years ago now, looked at what was available and ended up writing my own software which gave me the features I wanted. Today however I guess you have to use something like WordPress to generate readership, so I hope they’ll let me under the hood a bit to write some apps that do things I want.
I hate the use of the word ‘upgrade’ in the context of software. Windows Vista for example was not an upgrade from Windows XP IMHO, although Windows 7 is. I’m not against change per se, but I do recognise that change isn’t always for the better, be it in computer land, politics or life in general.
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I liked blogger when I could mess with HTML. You need to pay to do that on WP. Do you want readership? 😀
I agree on the upgrade comment. No more to say to that.
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Wow, you could never accuse WordPress of being intuitive!!
I’m just playing setting up some blog space, bluonthemove.wordpress, there is an intro message up there. Kind of going with a blue theme for now.
Blu
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I am becoming a thorn in the side on the forums I suspect for complaining about their recent changes. I am sure you will appreciate this, but software engineers are NOT the best people to decide on changes for users.
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Software engineers also should not have the most powerful computers in the building. If their code is taking a long time to compile, they should re-write it, “leaner and meaner”
Blu
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Don’t start me on that one. That’s like the IT head who thought all accountants should have the fastest computers because they used spreadsheets and no-one else needed capacity. Right, I’m writing 50+ page documents, using graphs and don’t need memory or speed? And I kept losing my work?
Excellent point about software engineers though. How often does that happen though?
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That was a quote from the company chairman, so it happened atleast once!
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Smart chair!
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