New Format for Reader/WordPress Website
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@sterlingsop, I am a bit confused, don’t you use your actual blog and homepage to do all that. When I want to do a new post I do it all from there, I click on the name of the blog in the bar at the top and then do new post. I never do a new post from the reader or the stats page.
It is also how I access my dashboard. I am glad that you now get the drop down menu/thing for the notifications and they changed from when you press on it the whole page changed to your notifications.
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Looking at Reader now I am very confused as to how things will display, where do I go for enlightenment? Where are the new rules…
I note in some cases it says how many more words there in others it does not. Some people can post multiple photos and some multiple photos need to be scrolled within the reader. -
Well, thanks goes to WP for making it possible to view Freshly Pressed as a list or a grid.
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How is it better that panorama, horizontal photos get a big foot print and portrait vertical photos get shrunk? How is it better that I know how many words the post has and not how many images?
Placing the text around the photo automatically shrinks it, not great for mobility.
In fairness this is just rolling out and let us all reserve judgement, but right now its worse, than this morning from my perspective.
In any event people need to be told how various types of formats and sizes will be presented and how they can plan for that.
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Oh and I just saw a post with ten small photos in it. I am basing all of my comments on the Photography Topic, in case someone wants to check.
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With respect timethief your advice to sterlingsop is just plain silly. Why bookmark a link outside the system when a simple click icon is the answer. You are doing a stout job defending the changes but the plain fact is that they are just awful. It seems WP wants to ‘dumb down’ the whole blogging experience. I agree with with sterlingsop I don’t want to write through the quick post function I want the proper page and I want to be able to access it easily.
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I’ve already noted my comments in a thread I started a month ago, so here’s the short version:
-Inconsistent UI across the WordPress.com platform: Check!
-Inability to scroll back to the top of the page by clicking on the blue bar in FF18: Check!
-Extra clicks needed to access our blog dashboards: Check!
-Inability to directly and quickly access other sections on WordPress.com (Forums, Support, News, etc.): Check!If anyone wants to read the long version: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-admin-bar-on-our-wordpresscom-homepage
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justjennifer-
I must agree with you…I’ve been blogging multiple times a day for 11 months now.
I can’t seem to find a good portion of the tools I used on a regular basis on this new format, and find that I spend a good deal of additional time trying to use the system in an easy, comprehensive way.
I spent an hour today trying to find all the support pages of building traffic. Has anybody seen where the PRweb (or was it wire) $89 press release offer has gone? It used to be on the left column…I think it was an incentive deal of WP users.
Thanks!
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It looks like not only the new reader, but the hideous new admin bar is here to stay. I used to absolutely love WordPress, but now my feelings are definitely lukewarm.
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I’m very disappointed that I’m no longer able to change the size and color of the type in my posts. I hope it is reinstated soon!
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There are still major problems with the new reader.
1. Portrait images are shrunk to thumbnails regardless of their quality, images from slideshows not shown at all.
2. A post shown “starts” randomly either with a list of tags (???) or with the image. Btw, yes, if our eye can take it all in in one glance the “newspaper format” = “image with title below” makes sense. In a scroll page it is plain nonsense. So please put the title and blog-name back on top. -
Last week we started to roll out some visual changes to WordPress.com and the WordPress.com Reader. We’ve been working hard on improvements in two key areas; making WordPress.com an amazing responsive experience on your mobile device and making sure we’re doing the best job highlighting all of the beautiful photos and videos you’re posting. A New Responsive Design for WordPress.com
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My problem is solved. I didn’t realize I now have to open the ‘kitchen sink’ each time I post in order to see all options on the toolbar. So now I can make my fonts in different sizes and colors again. Yay WordPress!
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@marciastrykowski
The kitchen sink icon in the Visual editor is NOT what this thread is about at all. This thread is about the changes to this page http://wordpress.com/#!/read/following/ -
@socialeyesnyc http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/#pay-for-traffic-to-your-site is what you are looking for, I believe.
@Staff, thanks for bringing back the footer links on at least some of the tabs. The addition of a link in the Admin bar to only my primary site is a help, even if it isn’t a big help.
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The user of the reader becomes no information, how many pictures are in a post. Perhaps it is possible to count the pictures and give the information like “658 more words, 104 more pictures, 15 comments and 10 likes”?
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