New Windows App

kwolf114 · Member · Dec 13, 2015 at 6:56 pm
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No problem need help with. Just wanted to know whether new Windows app better than mobile app? If so, why? Why if so, not a mobile app too?

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timethief · Member · Dec 13, 2015 at 10:42 pm
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We aren’t allowed to use technical support forums threads for that purpose. Discussion and polls of this nature take place on blogs. They do not take place here. Create and publish a blog post on your blog please. Then to advertise your blog post and promote it please use social networks as that is what they are for. These are strictly support forums and posting anything here other than technical support issues means it will be treated as spam.

You can use tag search to locate other WordPress.com hosted blogs on this subject https://wordpress.com/tag/travel

Are you looking for feedback on your blog? This could range from the design of the site to the actual content of a post. You can get feedback from our Community Pool:
https://dailypost.wordpress.com/category/community-pool/

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kwolf114 · Member · Dec 13, 2015 at 11:11 pm
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Sorry. I thought the forum was the place to ask this.
timethief · Member · Dec 13, 2015 at 11:16 pm
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No problem and best wishes with your site.
supernovia · Staff · Dec 14, 2015 at 8:52 pm
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Hey there,

We aren’t allowed to use technical support forums threads for that purpose.

Actually there are quite a few discussions about our products here. While we definitely don’t allow spam, these forums are as much for the community as they are for support.

If you can point us to the documentation that made you feel like these discussions aren’t allowed, we’ll get it updated. Thanks @thimetheif.
supernovia · Staff · Dec 14, 2015 at 8:53 pm
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and @kwolf114 — they’re actually meant to be as much like each other as possible!

I do think I like the previews in the desktop apps better, since you can preview for phones, tablets, or desktops.
timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2015 at 9:06 pm
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It’s my opinion which is not going to change any time soon, if ever, is that the correct place to post feedback on any new WordPress.COM feature is in the announcements of the feature.
https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2015/12/09/the-new-wordpress-com-app-for-windows-is-here/

Fishing expedition threads like this one are not a substitute for blogging it and running an actual poll in the post on one’s own site and promoting in in social networks.

Moreover, if Staff want feedback on any feature then let them post such threads after they respond to all the posts made in the last thread of that nature that they posted https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/editor-feedback?replies=739
supernovia · Staff · Dec 14, 2015 at 9:10 pm
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Ah, okay, I was confused by the “we are not allowed” part — I thought you must be referring to an official policy of ours, which would definitely need some updating.
timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2015 at 9:31 pm
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Oh there was a time when we had both Blog promotion forums and Off topic Forums and they turned into nightmare forums full of spam and scamming and insults. Staff spent so much time editing removals in the threads that the forums were finally closed down – alleluia! Thereafter time passed and the Ideas Forum specs were changed to accommodate discussion.

Just imagine what it would be like if we bloggers used thread here to conduct polls in so we could use the results as blog fodder. It would defeat the purpose of having a blog at all.

Meanwhile the Staff blog posts that the feature announcement were made in would lack the relevant feedback that ought to have been posted there in full public view.

If fishing expedition threads ie. polls for the purpose of creating blog fodder are going to be allowed then without any sweat at all I could run with that in a way that would leave some breathless.

Alternatively, I could choose to politely derail everyone of the fishing expedition threads without ever breaching the forum code of conduct.

Bottom line: Allowing those threads here is a very bad idea and I do not wish to be tempted to demonstrate where that could and would lead to.
supernovia · Staff · Dec 14, 2015 at 9:46 pm
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Thanks for your feedback. :)

I generally would say posting on ones site is the best option if you’re looking for general discussion.

We really don’t mind discussions about our products though. Even though we can’t always implement all of the ideas here, we do appreciate the feedback, which we may not see if folks only post it on their sites.
timethief · Member · Dec 14, 2015 at 9:51 pm
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I am sure Staff does not mind having discussion regarding new features and the place for that is in comments made on the feature announcement posts where everyone with internet access can read them.

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