Beep Beep Boop screen is a joke. Is this a glitch?
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I really hope that this debacle will at least teach WP that the next time they’re going to make a major change like this, they should run it by us their user base first. And maybe spend more than thirty seconds on beta testing before going live.
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Like in all the post before I do seriously complain about the change wordpress.com took in the editor. It makes working worse: takes a lot longer, isn’t comfortable at all and it lacks several needful tools we had before. As I pay for my Upgrade and I do have wordpress.com advertisement on my blog (because I don’t want to pay another fee for this) I should have a vote for this. I want you to change this awful “beep-beep-bop” back.
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Sorry to be negative but I don’t see how this is “problem solved” until we can go back to posting and editing with one click instead of going round the houses to avoid this nuisance update as per the workaround!
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Of course they didn’t fix it. The beep beep bop was the least of all the problems, yet the geniuses at wordpress were so childish as to think that changing the language from that of a 5-year-old to that of a 10-year-old would please the wordpress user base.
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And you still can’t copy paste. . . as before. You must type everything in letter by letter.
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I think statlerr was being ironic….. (Hopefully)
Seriously though, I do hope that WP does think that by addressing a few issues that we will be happy. By all means fix the bugs in the “loading all things” editor, but we still need a Settings option that allows us to use the old editor. Then this thread could be put to bed.
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Hi all :)
I see that there are lots of thoughts about linking to the new editor. I understand that the people in this thread are generally unhappy with these new changes. That is noted and we are taking it into consideration.
You’ll notice that I’m answering more bug-related, enhancement ideas with the new editor. While there is general unhappiness here, we’ve also heard a lot of positive comments about it as well. We are taking everything into consideration.
Bug-related and enhancement related posts are the ones we can act on. We can make the necessary changes to improve this editor. We know it’s not perfect, but we are working on making it better. If you are generally unhappy with this change, we want to hear that. However, it’s really useful for us if you can be a bit more specific. Let us know exactly what is making you unhappy, and we’d be more than happy to take that feedback back to the team.
As I did yesterday, I’ll be taking a look and addressing issues from the posts I left off on yesterday.
Thanks again for all the feedback. We do appreciate you taking the time to let us know.
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As timethief noted earlier (WAY earlier) Word Press has demonstrated that they have no intention of actually going back to the ‘old’ editor (which rossau mentioned above, quite rightly).
My grampa used to say “My old dog will go out and kill chickens. You can beat on him til you’re tired, and he’ll wag his tail and plead forgiveness, but ain’t no way in hell is he going to let go that chicken.”
That’s Word Press. They have no intention of going back to the old editor. They might put a little lipstick on beep beep boop, but it’s still a pig.
Not only is it a pig, it smells like an egotistical pig. There’s Big Egos in Development, and they don’t like being questioned.If we want to get their attention, we have to use a 2×4…meaning, we boycott WP by not posting. WP is funded by advertising, and if we don’t post, no ads are shown, and no ads are clicked on. No clicks mean no money coming in, and the ad guys are smart enough to figure out where the clicks are…and aren’t..coming from. Enough of us stop posting, maybe we’ll get WP’s attention.
(but I’m not really betting on it.)THe sad thing is, we’re the lab rats. Word Press. Org does the development and uses Word Press.com as the platform to deploy it. We’re lab rats. They depend on us to perform the work, but think of us as nothing but rats.
Well, this rat has said enough is enough. I’m not posting another thing until things change. -
Did anyone of the WP developers notice that in the new Beep Beep Boop editor the tree-like list of the categories is missing? You can’t see the “child category” under its “parent category” anymore.
You only can see all categories alphabetically in an awful list.Again, did anyone notice that there are not any suggestions to previous popular tags when the user types the first letters of the tag?
Another bad change: In HTML editor, the button for Full Screen is missing. I’m talking about the button that says “Distracting Free Writing” when the mouse is hovering over it.
Still to go on, where is the “Revisions” option in the new Beep Beep Boop editor? Nowhere, I think.
Again, the URL editor under the post’s title is missing, too. Do WP developers know what a big problem this is for non-English blogs?
And these are some first impressions for this Beep Beep Boop joke.
Please, leave the editor in its previous conditions. They were great and all WP users were happy.
This Beep Beep Boop editor is nothing but trouble. -
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per gracejiyoung:
If you are generally unhappy with this change, we want to hear that.
Erm..we’ve been doing that non-stop since this wretched thing first appeared! You and WP just seem to be conveniently ignoring this very obvious and prominent vocal dissent.
The bottom line is this – If you are going to implement this for mobile devices then make it
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for mobile devices and leave the old editor for us PC users!
Everyone else is able to do it, why can’t WP?
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I tried the “click the ‘new’ button from the Admin Bar” workaround this morning and was sent straight to the very unwanted new version of the editor, no beeps, just “loading things.” Reverted to the Dashboard to Posts to Add New route to the old editor and this still works.
Please FIX: (1) The strung out forever and a day ‘categories’ element, go back to the neater, tighter, and separated categories which were much easier to navigate. (2) an option is allowed for the use of the older, and more blogger friendly, version of the editor permanently.
BTW, in the mean time I’m searching for a new platform. -
…fwiw: I’ve been here in one form or another since 2006-ish. I have a bunch of blogs over several WP accounts, and my first thought after seeing that beeb-boop thing was “this could be the tipping point for me”.
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@gracejiyoung, something that would make me a lot happier is if we were allowed to choose which editor we want to use as standard for creating and editing post, e.g. through Settings on the dash. Then those who are okay with using the new editor can do that, and those of us who prefer to use the old editor can do that – but without having to use roundabout, time-consuming workarounds to get to it.
A less optimal (but I guess workable) solution would be if you could easily access the old editor from the new one, like it is now with switching between visual and text. To me that kind of solution would still be unsatisfactory, but certainly better than the do-everything-through-the-dash one we have now.
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I totally refuse to use the new editor. I will go the route via “dashboard>posts>add new” to access the old editor. I really hope they won´t remove the old editor completely. It´s sad what I see.
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@gracejiyoung, a simple question: since the new edit has many bugs, you are going to keep the old editor? (Dasboard-> Posts-> Add new)
a) yes
b) no
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@greacejiyoung
You’ll notice that I’m answering more bug-related, enhancement ideas with the new editor. While there is general unhappiness here, we’ve also heard a lot of positive comments about it as well. We are taking everything into consideration.
Yes – I was concerned that WP is only interested in fixing this new editor.
Can you show us some of these positive comments? If you are taking everything into consideration then let us choose the editor of choice via a settings option. -
gracejiyoung: If you are generally unhappy with this change, we want to hear that.
I am generally unhappy with this change. I would like an option to my profile settings page that will allow me to choose which editor I want to use.
In WordPress developers’ language: beep boop bep bap booop bop bip.
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What changes do we want? We simply want the old editor back WITH everything it had before this fiasco. Not complicated. After that is done you can take all the time you want to play with the defective editor thrown at us.
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