Is WordPress trying to become Google ?
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Any chance I can get rid of the brand new Google+ clone on the toolbar? If I wanted to be informed about information I don’t really need and can find for myself if I’m really, really anxious to be right up to date on the number of my followers and how many like the latest post, I could have stayed with Google+
Facebook-creep all over the net is bad enough. Please don’t add to the social networking pollution.
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Do you mean the little orange button that shows how many people have ‘liked’ a post? If so, it’s only just appeared a few days ago or so. It’s definitely a bit silly but I doubt very much if they’ll get rid of it since they’ve just put it there. If people really really hate it (and there is enough outcry, they might relent, but don’t count on it. Chances are though, if you stick around on WordPress long enough, that will go away and be replaced by something else. There are always changes here.
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Indeed. WordPress is like the weather in some places. Just wait a few minutes and it will change. In the last few months WP seems to have acquired a bunch of programmers who just can’t stand to let well enough alone. There are days when I almost wonder if I’ve stumbled into the wrong site.
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The announcement of this new feature is found here:
What will Notifications do in the future?
We’ll add more activities, such as comments. We’ll give you a way to go back and see all of your notes in one place (right now, we show the 9 most recent activities). We’ve got a bunch of exciting plans for new notifications and we can’t wait to share them with you. And for those of you who are so popular that you get new followers and likes every few minutes, we’re already thinking about ways to help you manage and limit the flow activity. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/notifications-the-pulse-of-your-blog/ -
When the question is about how to get rid of the damned thing, providing a link that says there’s going to be more of the same crap isn’t exactly appropriate.
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@giftedadults
Good morning,
As you are unhappy with the notifications feature I was trying to let you know in advance that there will be even more coming. If you read the comments on that announcement post you will find my question to Staff and the reply.timethief
November 8th, 2011 at 5:01 pm
With due respect in accord with the intent, my feedback is that I find this feature to be an annoyance and distraction — do not want — do not need. Is there a way to turn this notications feature off?Martin Remy
November 8th, 2011 at 10:05 pm
We will be adding some features soon that let you manage the volume of notifications. -
Thank you. I read the post, but not the comments. I exected that if that information was available it would have been in the post.
I’ll look forward to seeing the controls.
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Me too. Shortly after I disabled every form of notification on my blogs than this annoying orange button feature appeared on my Admin bar. WordPress.com is becoming cluttered with many features we receive no prior announcement of. We log in and find yet more features we cannot disable in the case that we do not want to use them. My annoyance level is rising when it comes to the ‘surprise! isn’t it cute oh and BTW you can’t disable it’ features that pop up like mushrooms overnight. I think that my response is probably more common in the over 50 blogger demographic, but I suppose I could be wrong.
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The trouble is, it’s not really peculiar to WordPress… I’ve been looking elsewhere and all the social media stuff is everywhere, with unwanted notifications. The thing that bugs me most about WordPress.com is that we’re all unpaid Beta testers here for what the self-hosted WordPress.org folks will eventually get.
The ‘Like’ button in itself isn’t bad, it’s not like the Facebook one, it’s just internal for WordPress.com users and I, personally, have become quite fond of being able to see at a glance who enjoys my posts without them needing to comment (though I’m fond of comments too) but the notification button is doing my head in and I wish it would go away. I can’t get over how intrusive one little button can be, but it really is.
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I admit to being over 50, but this would have annoyed the heck out of me when I was much younger. It’s just one little button, but it’s kind of the straw that broke the camel’s back. Every site is now going on the assumption that we all want to be in constant contact with other people or at least know what they’re doing that’s supposedly important to us. I’ve honed my social networking down pretty much to my blogs, and I’m tired of the constant intrusions of that element of the web. It’s bad enough that it’s impossible to escape the ubiquitous Facebook button. I don’t need a pseudo Google+ button.
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The trouble is, it’s not really peculiar to WordPress… I’ve been looking elsewhere and all the social media stuff is everywhere, with unwanted notifications.
Agreed.
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Seriously I wonder how many people get such high traffic to make the internal button useful to the blogger/administrator.
That’s why it’s not terribly useful to me….I don’t get that type of intense traffic across my 3 blogs.
Well, I agree about intrusions of other social networking tools and their “integratioin” with blogs. However I’m not going to sweat over it. I just view it like a wallpaper –after awhile I don’t really notice.
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I’m trying to adopt the wallpaper mentality but I still desire to have the ability to disable every “new” feature that’s introduced and all of the old ones too. lol :D
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