Beep Beep Boop screen is a joke. Is this a glitch?
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Yes, that’s what I do. It was easier before. Don’t you love improvements that make you life harder and offer no advantage?
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The next time you select to use the classic editor instead of the new editor, we’ll remember it! From then on you’ll be directed back to the classic view instead, you won’t have to select it every time.
Apparently I’m missing something.
If I want to edit a published post and click on the edit button, I’m taken to the new edit screen. I click the option at the top to go to the classic edit screen. But the next time I want to edit something, it again starts me on the new edit screen. It is not remembering my switch to the classic editor. And no, I am not deleting cookies.
If by “new editor,” you meant the screen for writing a new post, I tried that too. It doesn’t remember my preference either.
What am I doing wrong? Having to deal with the insanely slow-loading edit screen when all I want to do change a punctuation mark is simply not acceptable.
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It should actually be swapped. Bring us to the old editor by default and add an option to switch to the new BBB, and I’m sure that no one will click it.
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If I want to edit a published post and click on the edit button, I’m taken to the new edit screen. I click the option at the top to go to the classic edit screen. But the next time I want to edit something, it again starts me on the new edit screen. It is not remembering my switch to the classic editor. And no, I am not deleting cookies.
That’s the same behavior I have and it’s so annoying. :(
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Of the 23 pages of replies, there are only 134 posters. Some must like this. But then we are not seeing the private communications with staff.
I have to admit, I am concerned with the term “classic”. Did anyone use and prefer Classic Yahoo Mail over their other various updates? As you know, it is no more.
I do not like change, and even though it drove me crazy, I have learned to live with the absence of the internal scroll bar.
I guess I cannot give constructive criticism of the new editor as I block quite a bit through my browser, so am missing some functionality. I did watch the whirligig for a little bit the other day.
I was pleased today when I had to update one of my Pages that it automatically went to the old editor from my website. I do not have a cookie for opting out of the new editor. And we just installed self-destructing cookies, so the use of a cookie would be fruitless in my case. :)
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You know, I really don’t think I could cope with this new thing as the only editor. It’s slowness in loading alone would drive me batty. I’m always in and out of posts, tweaking them a little here, a little there. To have to sit here and watch that stupid BBB screen, sit here like a dummy WAITING for the system to load an inferior version of a product that was doing the job … I don’t know if I’d just give up blogging, but I sure would do a lot less of it.
Maybe that’s the point. To let WordPress’s long-term premium customers know how little they are valued, to keep making it harder to do what we do. Maybe the goal is to get rid of us, make room for less demanding customers who won’t overload the server with lots of posts, comments, photographs, and so on. If that’s NOT the idea, you could fool me.
I’m tired of this. I’m tired of paying the money and being given no respect, no courtesy, no consideration. I weary of fighting to keep what we already had.
In the end, this is a hobby. It’s not my business. I don’t make money doing it. In fact, it costs money … so past a certain point, you win. Screw it.
By the way — every single survey done by any reputable marketing group shows that for every complaint you get, hundreds are angry but won”t bother to register their complaint. Many people have no idea how to find the right forum — or even know there ARE forums.
Happiness engineers? That’s the worst joke of all.
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For the first time since it rolled out, the new editor worked this morning. I couldn’t use it at all before, because it wouldn’t save my posts. Great job on testing your terrible broken editor before you forced it on us, guys.
So, after many days of not working at all, I can finally provided specific feedback on your ridiculous, Fisher-Price’s My First Blog Post editor.
Where is all the functionality? How do I copy a post or request feedback? Where is the slug box? How do I change the author? How do I change the URL? And where are my theme-specific options?
I’m using Outspoken, which has this box in the old editor which is just gone in the new one:
I paid for the upgrade and a premium theme with theme-specific functionality and it is all gone.
Why would you give us less options? Seriously, who thought less was a good idea?
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I would imagine that the vast majority of WP users either don’t know that there is a forum, or are not confident enough to post, or cannot be bothered.
I have 100 or so authors and editors on my site and know for a fact that none of them have posted here. They bring problems to me and I either sort them out or ask here. Yes – all of them are dislike BBB – quite apart from the fact that it doesn’t work.
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I don’t know what wordpress has done in the past two days, but nothing is loading on my reader, my page photos are not loading, comments, likes etc. Whatever they did has made my entire site a mess. This is awful.
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nothing is loading on my reader
That’s not the same issue. Use this link to create your own thread .https://en.forums.wordpress.com/?new=1 and know that you are describing either a browser related issue or connectivity related issue.
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It’s all been said already, but this latest “improvement” was ill-conceived, poorly implemented, and apparently not tested very well. The changes that WordPress has been making lately, from eliminating the easy way to import Word docs to changing the way images are manipulated, to this ridiculous Beep, beep, boop thing are not helpful at all. And wouldn’t it be nice if WordPress, when they decide, in their misguided attempts to dumb-down the blogging experience, would give us some notice.
Here’s a suggestion, WordPress: “As of next Monday, the way you [do this or that, whatever] will change. Here’s what the change is. If you prefer to continue to post the way you have been, you can always follow these simple instructions.”
Seriously, WordPress, waking up one morning and finding that everything has changed, and, for the most part, not for the better, is not an “improvement.” It’s simply extremely annoying.
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@doobster418
Do keep in mind that despite the fact that there are millions of WordPress.COM hosted blogs we have no idea how many are abandoned. That’s important because of what thebirdingbunch has observed out of 23 threads here only 134 blogger have objected. Hence Staff can rightly say the number of objectors is very low given the millions who blog here. There will be no roll back of the “new post editor improvements“. The post editor will eventually replace the old one now referred to as the “classic” one. The bottom line is that we will have to suck it up and accept that reality no matter how infuriating and distasteful it may be to swallow it. Hence, posting only constructive criticism is what’s expected. -
WordPress…. why why why always changing for the worst not better. I’m seriously thinking of quitting WordPress.
If you’re going to change something, make sure the damn thing works first!
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Since the new editor was put in, all of my posts on my primary blog loujenhaxmyor.wordpress.com have had all text reformatted. Originally most of my poems were aligned left but centered in the page. Now every one of them (for the past year) has been misaligned. Last night I tried going back a few months to correct them. They started looking fine this morning, until I put in a new post– and they all immediately misaligned.
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@timethief — I think for WordPress.com it would be a dangerous fallacy to think the only dissatisfied customers are those complaining.
A more statistically accurate question would be: Of the vocal customers, what is the ratio of satisfied to dissatisfied?
This group is the minority that takes the time to reach out and communicate about these things. But their opinions should constitute a fair reflection of users in general, where a dissatisfied customer here suggests thousands who, instead of speaking up, will simply move on to something else without notice to WordPress.com.
And given that the ratio of praise to criticism is exceptionally low here, this group’s reaction should be something WordPress.com takes very seriously. -
For the last five years commas in category names have not been a problem. I have known about commas separating tags for a long time, of course, but the technology at WordPress has supported a comma inside a category name until a few days ago. For example, recently I updated ORDINARY TIME DEVOTIONS and added posts to the category “Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Lectionary, Year A.” After I published I learned that WordPress technology had created two new categories–“Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Lectionary” and “Year A”–and added the posts to them. So I moved the posts into the correct category and deleted the new categories.
I had a similar problem when I updated http://blogatheologica.wordpress.com/. An addition to the category “Leviticus, Book of” wound up not there but in the new WordPress-created categories “Leviticus” and “Book of.” I moved the post into the correct category and deleted the new categories.
I took the opportunity to relabel categories in my eight weblogs to remove commas and even to merge two categories at BLOGA THEOLOGICA. Occasional weblog maintenance is positive, so something good came out of all this.
My point, however, is that, sometimes, when you change software, you create nuisances for the rest of us. This, I am sure, is never your intention, but I write of consequences. Please consider this technological reality more in the future.
The blog I need help with is ordinarytimedevotions.wordpress.com.
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TT: however, remember two reverse ;)
a) infinite scrolling (hated by many people)
b) and the very recent scroll bar affair
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/removing-the-scrollbar-from-the-post-editor-one-of-the-worst-improvements-yet/page/13?replies=394#post-1998035
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