Daily Prompt 08.05.2014
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@ timethief
I think the issue at hand is that people have gotten used to using the pingbacks or grid as the default way of finding other posts. It’s kind of necessary because not everyone uses the tags of “postaday” or “daily prompt” or “flattery” or whatever. (Actually, not many bloggers do, by my limited recollection.) Unlike the weekly challenges, the daily prompt posts contain no instructions on a tag to include. There has never been a need for it. Perhaps until now.
Maybe it would be easiest for everyone involved if WP added a line to each prompt saying “Include the tag ‘dailyprompt’ so that other participants can find your response.” It would require no reprogramming and it would be consistent with the Daily Post’s other offerings.
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Is the point of this to eliminate the Daily Prompt as we know it? If it is, this is a lousy way of going about it.
DP was fun. I enjoyed it. Now it isn’t fun, just another aggravation. It was a way of connecting with other bloggers. Today, It’s just an idea to write about without community links. Since I’ve got my own ideas, I see no reason to bother. What a pity to ruin something that was so positive and so much fun … for nothing and no reason.
This is a bad way to treat your customers — and by the way — we ARE customers.
P.S. I’m not a big fan of the reader. Nothing personal.
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@bumblepuppies
I’m glad that you mentioned tagging our posts with dailyprompt or something similar. It’s no where near as nice as the grid of responses, but bugs are a reality.Is it possible that the author of the Daily Prompt may sometimes deselects the option to allow pingbacks? I’m guessing that is the first thing that would be checked, but I haven’t seen anyone mention it. It’s not likely—it would be like accidentally choosing not to put oil in your car.
FWIW, I love the new layout of the Daily Post page. Changing things up is necessary, or you end up with something like this:
Of course, things move much more quickly online. A 3 year old design may feel like a 30 year old design.
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I always tag my Daily prompt posts with DP Challenge as this was once said on a prompt and I tag them with the suject (mostly). I was also never a fan of the reader, but now I have to get used to it, because it is the only way to find a connection to what others have written. I am used to Facebook changing its look at least twice a year, I worked with computer changes in my company for thirty years, but this is a social system, universal and I feel very much ignored with my problem. “we are working on it” means something and nothing – I was also working in a company. I will definitely now make a line on my contribution telling people to use a daily prompt tag and the subject of the prompt. This makes sense, although up to now things worked OK until it was all changed.
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Yes. I’m with Teepee12. I made a comment yesterday and you redirect me to the reader. But the reader is not the same. It’s far more slow and complicated. I want the DP site working. I want something easy and fast to connect with all the other people participating in the prompt, as it was before. I see today’s page is not working. Again 0 responses. I feel abandoned.
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I see a few things are showing up in the grid now, at least mine from yesterday and two from today.
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I just noticed that as well, but far by all. Thanks everyone for contributing your ideas on this forum theme, I hope that they find the glitch and repair it forever.
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A NOTE TO EVERYONE: If you want to appear in the repaired Daily Prompt post, you need to redo the link. Even though it looks correct, until you do it over, it won’t show up in the master post. No, I don’t know why. I just know it’s true.
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I just redone mine from yesterday and it is now on the grid. All you have to do is go to your entry and where you have the link for your own URL as your pingback, just cancel it and re-enter it with the same URL. Todays would be http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/unexpected-guests/ for Unexpected Guests, and yesterdays was http://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/forms-of-flattery/ for A form Of Flattery
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Is the point of this to eliminate the Daily Prompt as we know it? If it is, this is a lousy way of going about it.
I have tried to be very clear that this is an unexpected bug. It is not an attempt to remove anything.
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staff-ozmodiar
Of course it wasn’t and I’m not at all confused about that nor should anyone else be based on your responses in this thread which are very clear.I am also respectfully requesting that The Daily Post Staff provide a contact form on their site where blog related issues like these can be reported, rather than having them reported here on the main support forums.
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I love the daily prompt, all the more why I so miss it when this bug happens. It is frustrating to write something, post it and no-one sees it. It seems that this bug has now been cured and I hope for the future that it remains this way. I have written daily for more than a year and the only reason I missed for a few days this year was because I was visiting my father in England.
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@timethief – I only just saw you response This is a very good idea and would perhaps spare a lot of comments that are really a thing for the experts.
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I am also respectfully requesting that The Daily Post Staff provide a contact form on their site
In all honesty, it’s faster and more efficient to have issues of this sort posted in the forums. Then the staff here (like me) can rattle the cage of whatever developer is working on the part of wordpress.com that has the bug. More eyes looking out for reported problems is very helpful for everyone. It is one of the biggest strengths of the support forums actually.
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staff-ozmodiar
I acknowledge your response, without agreeing with it, but that does not mean I will become disagreeable. :)Publishing a series of posts on properly formed links, pingbacks – their creation, appropriate use and abuse, appropriate post tagging, etc. is a possibility. ;)
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In the softest voice possible, without breaking into raucous laughter, she responded saying: “No sh-t! ”
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