New Format for Reader/WordPress Website
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Does WordPress have actual employees to contact in regards to this new layout? I’m extremely frustrated with this new layout – as time goes on, it’s not easier for me to adjust. The way the Reader appears now makes me not interested in reading the blogs and the set up before was the reason I decided to go with WordPress when creating my blog. If I feel this way – I’m sure hundreds/thousands more do. I also feel like every time someone comments in the forum about the new layout it turns in to multiple users complaining instead of an employee responding. Why isn’t anyone getting back to the users?
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Nope, not enamoured with the new reader format, either.
It feels bare, like there’s a lack of information, control and accessibility.
Love WordPress to bits, but not the new format.
If it wasn’t broken, why ‘fix’ it?
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If it aint broke don’t fix it!
As well as not liking the new Reader format for many of the reasons given above the drop down menu is hopeless and ‘notifications’ no longer works. It’s all adding up to a very user unfriendly experience :( -
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It looks like newer Reader complaints are being answered, although with the same nonsense. Will WordPress Staff eventually get back to this forum, or are they finished with us?
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Old login page in pt.wordpress.com have a google page rank 8. In Portugal 3 blogs in wp.com obtained a PR 6, you now what i mean? last year we lost this page rank.
But worse, now we wave lost the top post of portuguese blogs, and I am not interested in the last english language posts…
Topic tags is not the same. And find the link to this forum its not easy, for a beginner in wordpress… -
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apeatling, Key Master
In the Reader we only select images that are of a high enough quality to feature above the post (greater than a width of 465px).Since the image on your post is smaller, we can’t show it as a featured image. We are working to allow smaller images in posts to be shown in the reader to the side of the post text. That way we don’t have to do much resizing and we can retain the quality of smaller images.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/image-not-showing-up-in-reader?replies=3#post-1123590 -
In the Reader we only select images that are of a high enough quality to feature above the post (greater than a width of 465px).
Oh great! So they’re specifically looking for huge pictures to take up massive amounts of screen-space in the reader?
I realise that several commenters on this thread are photography bloggers, but I have to say that I, and I suspect many others, produce and read mostly blogs where any images are incidental to the posts, not their raison d’etre. Those massive, space-wasting pictures are, to me, a major part of what’s wrong with the new format.
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This size issue explains a lot about the approach. Big bold, lack of detail and confusing. Only sending this because yet again I was dropped from relieving messages.
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Oh great! So they’re specifically looking for huge pictures to take up massive amounts of screen-space in the reader? … I suspect many others, produce and read mostly blogs where any images are incidental to the posts, not their raison d’etre. Those massive, space-wasting pictures are, to me, a major part of what’s wrong with the new format.
I’m with you on this. Do not need! Do not want! Hmmm maybe I should have SHOUTED!
If Staff provide an option in the Reader to display only thumbnail size images on the blogs I subscribe to I will be happy. That sizing will motivate me to actually click into view the image at full size.
If Staff force me to view large space wasting images in the Reader then my motivation to click into the blog, thereby creating a page view stat! is gone … gone … gone.
Without any doubt I will be tempted to go to the reader edit page and unsubscribe from all image rich blogs.
Those who read posts in the Reader and click the like buttons and share buttons there, without clicking into the blogs and creating page view stats are not on my happy making list.
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PS – large pictures seem to be cropped funny in many cases – and why penalize a blog that has optimized picture sizes? One blog I subscribe to has small images (funny cards with sayings) and they are now gone mostly – all in all a very bad experience – I guess there might be one or two photo bloggers that are happy – but why dump on the rest of the bloggers just to keep one or two people happy?
How about a different reader for stupid big pictures?
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The large size may explain why many people are re-posting to Reader – those I have looked at have small images. Without telling people the rules how can they be expected to follow them.
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Maybe the diplomatic solution, the compromise, the half-way point is to go back to the way things were :)
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To be honest, I started using WordPress before I even knew the reader existed. Maybe it didn’t when I first started. Later, I noticed the reader and that WordPress kept improving upon it. So I guess I can’t complain too much–I wasn’t prompted to use WordPress because of the reader. As long as everyone is treated equally, I don’t really care that much.
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May be now its matter of equal treatment. But its also about common sense. Title at the top, authorship highlighted, people reading for the most part left to right, etc.
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@thedixieflatline666
I don’t want full posts to appear in the Reader at all. If I can’t have that I’d like to have an option for choosing the kind of minimalist Reader display I prefer.I would be happy to have an alphabetically ordered list of linked blog post titles with a single thumbnail and a 55 character summary.
_thumbnail_ linked blog post title – 55 character intro excerpt to post
_thumbnail_ linked blog post title – 55 character intro excerpt to post
and so on …
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Full posts would not make sense. One medium sized shot and a line to indicate, links, number of images and likes as in the old days. Title at the top, menu bar on the left and human sized fonts.
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