New Reader Look
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@designsimply
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@timethief, the purpose is to showcase the content! On the web, in general, people see and consume content in multiple different ways and the Reader is one of many. It’s made for people who consume content and who are interested in a magazine-like view they can use to explore more of WordPress.com in that way.
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@designsimply
That’s exactly the response I expected. This behavior means there is no benefit to the site that the post is actually published on. -
I just wanted to quickly add at the top of this reply that I appreciate your feedback! It’s helpful and I’m working with the Happiness team to help record the top reported issues from everyone.
– Too many clicks. You sacrificed scroll, which is easy and quick, for the enervating, tiring clicks and new windows; inexplicable…
I feel this is opposite feedback from others! There is a balance to it that I’m sure we will continue to work on. Aggregating feedback is how I can help on this one.
– Unattractive layout. […] Please try for yourselves and see the “photography” tag. I used to explore that tag daily and discover new blogs, but now it’s soooo frustrating. It’s impossible with all those “clicks” and “back” and “close”. […] the eye can’t focus on something, nothing stands out.
Photography tag page for reference: https://wordpress.com/tag/photography
I’m not sure if it will help you, but I am a huge fan of keyboard shortcuts and you can use ‘j’ for next, ‘k’ for previous, ‘enter’ to open full post view, ‘space’ and ‘shift+space’ to scroll, and ‘esc’ to leave full post view. I know it doesn’t solve everything you mentioned, but it may help a little!
– Decrease of blog views and likes: it’s happening already… Why bother visit the blog if you see everything in the Reader.
For people who want a clean view focused entirely on a reading experience, the Reader will work well for them and they may not want to visit a site directly. Other people do want to visit the site and will click through if they are engaged by your content. Both are valid. There are multiple ways to engage with a site and it still exists independently too.
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That’s exactly the response I expected. This behavior means there is no benefit to the site that the post is actually published on.
I don’t think that’s true! However, I do have a photo blog and I adore how it looks when you click through to it directly (each page has a color scheme based on the image and it makes me super happy to see how the colors are picked! it’s the same theme pellymade uses, Duotone). I also understand that people view the images in email only sometimes, or in other apps, or in the Reader, or in other ways I probably haven’t thought of, and those are all still good—just different ways to see the content.
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Then we will have to agree to disagree because I do not believe for a single second that dodgy redirection of permalinked post titles away from where they were actually published benefits the site the post were published on. -
I’ll try to get a better count on feedback about how clickthroughs work as I go and report what I find. This is what I can do to help from a support perspective. :)
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Before when you clicked on an attached pictures, the image zoomed in so the reader could see better the details. Why this is not possible anymore and what should I do to get that function back?
The gallery format was changed in favor of clicking through to the post content instead of just viewing images individually. I will make sure your suggestion is logged and also try to get a feel about whether a lot of other people are missing it. I haven’t seen any other feedback about it so far, but I also haven’t seen all of the feedback yet!
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The changes to the reader are visually disgraceful. I do not want the blogs I follow compressed in my reader so WP can shove their promoted blogs down my throat. Many bloggers agree. See:
Gorgeous! The new WP reader chopped it in half!
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Photos look bad, cut in half or as small thumbnails. Very unappealing. Is this to save space or do folks in WordPress actually think that’s good?
The adjusted layout works well for a variety of content mixed together, and working to improve how the photo crops are done is already something we’ve received feedback for and are discussing. It’s not something we’ll likely be able to change soon, and it improvements for that might happen in the next major update. Thank you for your feedback! I have made a record of it and included a screenshot of some of your posts so developers will be able to see a clear, specific example.
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I’m thinking of closing this thread in favor of the official one at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/reader-update?replies=10 because it’s sticky in the forum and because it was started by a happiness engineer and meant to be the official thread. I was wondering what you all think?
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I must say that the changes are bad for photo blogs. I agree with Pellymade. Photos are cropped and chopped and mishandled. I don’t want my photos to be shown that way. There are many bloggers who have expressed the same feelings today at their photo blogs even though they don’t write it here.
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This thread was created first and has the most feedback in it. The other one can have the sticky post designation removed and be closed with a redirection to this thread. -
The changes to the reader is unacceptable. We try hard here to support Word Press with wonderful blog sites, please support us by ridding us of this terrible reader, is of little if no use to us, makes it more time consuming and a lot more likely to skip over blogs we follow. To include other blogs in more than one bracket is so distracting and confusing and outright insulting to the writer, photographer, artist…all of us. Please consider your members and correct this problem
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@abjag, thank you for the feedback! I’m logging specific feedback to try to keep track of good examples of the problem you mentioned about photo cropping.
@dandelionsalad, nah. I’m just looking for one to stick to, for the most part.
@timethief, thanks for the feedback about the thread. I’m going to check in with Liz too. I want to make sure she gets included!
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I checked in with staff-zinnia and we would like to keep the other thread as the active thread because that one was created specifically for collecting feedback about the latest Reader update. We will still be including all of the feedback from this thread in the data we’re collecting, so there’s no need to re-post if you’ve already posted!
If you have more feedback or need to follow up, just drop a new comment at https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/reader-update and we’ll be keeping an eye on that one!
Thank you so much!
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