Dashboard update clutter
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Hi, WordPress,
You just updated the dashboard, to rearrange windows and prioritize different information.
This does not work for me. Information I do not prioritize (Recent Activity) is now attached to recent comments. I always closed that ‘activity’ window and hid it off to one side, and now it’s stuck on top.
Comment numbers, pending comments and spam comments have all been reduced/hidden, alongside a reduction in the size of the ‘total # of posts and pages’ notification, to make room for a thick window detailing askimet stats (don’t really care) and storage space (don’t care at all).
I am now unable to view all relevant information on my dashboard with one glance. Unchecking ‘activity’ in the screen options window removes the comment display as well. I would very much like to know how to alter this or restore it to its previous state.
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I’m sorry this http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/theme-widget-improvements/ has resulted in distress for you. I’ll tag this thread for Staff. Please subscribe to the thread so you are notified when they respond and please be patient while waiting.
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Hi there – I’m sorry you don’t like the changes! It’s not possible to return to the old display. You can click and drag the modules into any order you like. You can also click the little gray arrow to the right of the module title to collapse the module. And finally, you can use the Screen Options tab to remove unwanted modules altogether.
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So we’re stuck with this new display whether we like it or not :-(
Well thanks for the choice!I didn’t want anything merging into “Activity”. I didn’t want it all cramped into small boxes. I definitely didn’t want a responsive design! No matter how i try to move things around i end up using just two columns and then have almost half my screen blank. It looks ridiculous!
It was far clearer and better for viewing in the old display!
I’m really not happy!!
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It looks ridiculous!
No one but you can see it so what does it matter?
The announcement is here http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/theme-widget-improvements/
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Well it maters to me as i’m the one who has to look at it. As i said, it was clearer and better for viewing before.
I’ve not been impressed with any changes to the dashboard over the last few months, but i could live with them. This latest change is damned annoying. If i don’t like using it then ultimately i’m likely to stop using it. But i’m just one of the little guys who doesn’t have a big following, so i doubt anyone at WP will really give a damn about losing me…
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I don’t have a massive following – 11,000 readers for my web novel series that I upload chapter to chapter in WordPress – but I can’t imagine I’m alone in being annoyed at this.
For me, it’s not necessarily about the inconvenient change. It’s the long series of unsolicited changes. I’m honestly not sure how much of this is WordPress and how much is the theme, but again and again, there are changes that are more detrimental than helpful.
Off the top of my head, there was the ‘auto scroll’ being enabled without my asking, which added an ugly footer-bar to the page and screwed up some of my reader’s screen displays. I had to figure out what was causing it, find the option in the settings and undo it. Since I was busy at the time, there were three-four days of reader complaints.
More recently, there was a change to the feature allowing people to ‘like’ comments. An icon was added to comments (ugly) and each icon seemed insistent on loading individually. With 600-1000 comments on more recent posts and each image taking a second or two to pop up, it was making the comment section take 5+ minutes to load on a perfectly good connection/computer (with the comments jumping around as each series of icons loaded). Finding the answer to that wasn’t intuitive, took some guesswork, and took a good chunk of time out of my day pre-deadline.
These look like small changes on the surface, but I’m afraid I don’t have a lot of patience for the little inconveniences that add up over time, be they things that make things a little less intuitive every time I visit a page or things that pop up once and take a chunk of time to figure out and fix.
I have been a supporter of WordPress.com as a blogging platform in the past. My writing has inspired others to start their own serial novels, with me recommending WordPress.com to those that ask. But after the aforementioned incidents, I started making the recommendations with a warning (‘WordPress likes to throw annoying changes in there’) and after this I’m seriously considering the other blogging platforms for my next story. I’m inclined to take something less polished/comprehensive if it’s stable and less insistent on annoying me.
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Hi all – We do appreciate your feedback on these changes. From time to time, we do make changes and adjustments to the platform to fix and update things, and to add requested features for our users. While we understand that not everyone will like every change, the things we change are based on our users’ requests overall.
If you’ve been blogging here for a long time and you’re really unhappy with any changes, you might consider moving to a self-hosted WordPress platform, which you can customize as you like:
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