Please Reinstate the Option of Choice to Use the Old Publishing Format
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WordPress as we know it will eventually disappear down the social media plug hole. We adapt or go with it. I think I prefer to disappear!
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I’ve been using WordPress for over five years and don’t think I can deal with their new “change for the sake of change” mentally. I’m ready to quit, as soon as I find a usable alternative.
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It is apparently possible to export from WordPress to Tumblr:
How To Import Your WordPress Blog Into Tumblr
And I’m not sure why anyone would care about whether or not WordPress gets some kind of civil-rights message about its users’ discontent. If WordPress is no longer useful, find alternatives or create your own. It’s not a question of “injustice” or taking some brave stand against our evil corporate overlords. Almost all large businesses are corporations. Either choose one that suits you, or make one that serves other people. Or go live in the mountains with no utilities — since running water and electricity are also run by corporations (hint: government-run entities and non-profits are corporations, too).
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P.S. My previous comment was for anyone complaining about how WordPress doesn’t care about its users (not you, @elegantzest).
Yes, this is obvious. WordPress is not your friend.
Anyone who misses the cynicism ever time some tech “visionary” labels tech support as “Happiness Engineers” needs to have a look at their comprehension of the basics of capitalism. They only want you to feel good in order to extract more money from you — all the better is you can attach some illusion of “love” to their faceless brand.
Strange how people fall for the same confidence games every time, and pretend to have been “victimized” by a marketing/PR machine that makes no attempt to hide its blatantly apparent tactics. Beyond a certain point, the “outrage” is just as disingenuous as the feel-good personalized illusion promoted by the Happiness Engineers of Silicon Valley. Business isn’t about happiness — it’s about money, and always has been.
As long as people continue to demand something for nothing (or give blind faith to the “guiding hand of the market”), they’ll always end up getting conned. WordPress is no different.
Alternative: Tumblr.
Any other ideas? Please share.
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@apetcher: “Why oh why don’t they test changes before they implement them!”
Free users are guinea pigs. It’s part of the hidden cost of “free” (along with the pervasive intrusive surveillance also known as “advertising”).
And, if they can get away with it, they’ll “educate” everyone to accept being tested on, whether you pay or not. Remember the Facebook newsfeed emotional-manipulation fiasco? They just reframed that as “standard operating procedure”‘; the sheep complain before the news cycle expired, and then everyone went go back to the new business as usual.
Same game at WordPress — and everywhere else in the tech world (which is to say, everywhere).
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Just when you get used to something with its minor faults they change to something new, not so enjoyable to use and full of gremlins. Similar to some other sites such as ebay who lost most of their business to Amazon and Etsy, etc. because of constant changes for the worse but that still hasn’t stopped them. I guess they think if they have worked on it, it must be improved, even when it isn’t, and people tell them it isn’t.
The editor was fine the way it was! Other things they ought to have fixed that are really annoying they haven’t bothered about. It is really infuriating!
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@oneworldtree & other members
This discussion was derailed from the start. First by unwitting but well meaning members like myself who suggested an alternate route to access the classic editor.
I now regret saying anything and apologize to oneworldtree who has intervened at several junctures on this thread in an attempt to keep it on track, which was to achieve her original demand.
Once I read the comments from the self-designated Happiness Engineer I was appalled. The more I read, the worse the scenario he exposed.
We now know a lot about the developers and their agenda.
At the outset with oneworldtree’s demand we had the advantage.
Once it degenerated to lists of workarounds we lost our leverage.
The final blow was to engage in discussion with Mr. Happiness Inc. where he used polite but unmistakable interrogation tactics that lured members into colluding with the developers agenda of foisting the new editor on us.
And every question we answered was used against us and placed everyone who participated in the role of “beta tester”, “experimental guinea pig”, “victim” and in steady increments we gave away our power.
I’m not a subservient person. I’m radical, revolutionary and resist any expression of dominance over others.
The developers are techno-fascists.
They were offered a fair compromise, to keep the classic editor and reinstate the access link.
Now that they have refused a fair settlement the only option is to abandon them.
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@aliceharding
The editor was fine the way it was! Other things they ought to have fixed that are really annoying they haven’t bothered about. It is really infuriating!
WP wont have developed a New Editor just for the hell of it.
There will be a ‘plan’ behind it. A plan which involves revenue streams, and increased subscription.
A development team will develop what they are asked to develop by business people. The business people will have justification of benefit and return on investment cases, for any/all changes requested (These are often flawed, ill thought out and mis-informed, by the way).
Fixing bugs carries very, very little business benefit, or return on investment. And, a developer being paid to fix bugs, means he/she is not developing against projects which are designed to provide a financial benefit.
Software development is not free. Money spent on it has to be seen to bring in a return.
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@apetcher: “Why oh why don’t they test changes before they implement them!”
Free users are guinea pigs. It’s part of the hidden cost of “free” (along with the pervasive intrusive surveillance also known as “advertising”).
@undertheflow: I’m not a “free” user (I paid theme premium, Custom Design, & Space Extra upgrade). Also, I’m volunteer here & Spanish forums post for 7 years.
However, I’m guinea pig too.
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@hopnut … It would perhaps be more tolerable if I could believe that a “development team” has been asked by business people with an eye on profit and benefits. While “fixing bugs” to be sure won’t be a priority … this isn’t a question of bugs .. this is a question of programs which are not being designed by professionals.
To require endless scrolling for the stats page … to insist on extra and gratuitous clicking everywhere is as obviously amateur as a book editor who cannot handle basic spelling and punctuation.
No one can possibly profit from bad design. If there are ads being “sneaked in” … maybe some tricks might be employed. But a program which entails extra scolling and clicking is as amateur as someone who doesn’t know where to place an apostrophe in possessive word. It shows … glaringly.
The fact that we have “happiness engineers” and “beep boop bong” indicates one of two things … teenagers are running the site, or the developers are eying the teen market. I suspect the latter may be correct. But that still doesn’t obviate the fact that there are basic design errors … glaring ones … no matter what the projected user’s education or age.
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.. this is a question of programs which are not being designed by professionals.
Don’t confuse developers with designers :-)
To require endless scrolling for the stats page … to insist on extra and gratuitous clicking everywhere is as obviously amateur as a book editor who cannot handle basic spelling and punctuation.
..and here one would expect Testers to step in :-)
No one can possibly profit from bad design.
Oh, they can. Maybe not as much profit as from good design though :-)
This might not be bad design, so much as hurried implementation, to realise return on investment as quickly as possible.The fact that we have “happiness engineers” and “beep boop bong” indicates one of two things … teenagers are running the site, or the developers are eying the teen market. I suspect the latter may be correct.
I suspect the same. It is a big, growing market.
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I am very unhappy, too.
Can’t get back to the old editor.
For me, the new editor won’t scroll, so I can see only ONE LINE of what I’ve typed.
I can’t post photos.
I can’t find my drafts (all planned for future posts)
Lots more to complain about, including the TWO HOURS I have lost today, trying to understand what’s happened, and how to deal with it.
I’m with many of you – if WP won’t go back to a format that I can use, I will have to look elsewhere for a blog.
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Oh, yeah, I can’t edit, either.
And my copy is all messed up – no spaces between the photos, so you cant tell one from the other.
My paragraphs have disappeared, and all the copy runs together, very confusing to the readers and looks messy and unprofessional.
And I am unable to get back in to the post to edit and correct these things.
My blog is an important part of my business – pretty crucial, to be honest, and I am VERY upset.
I thought it was a temporary glitch, as it just happened to me last night. But readng this, I understand it’s probably a permanent thing. NOT HAPPY. -
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If we pay for the upgraded blog, can we get the old editor back??
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do you work for wordpress galois? why do you say no? or are you just a defeatist?
Are you kidding me? I’m volunteer.
I hate the “new editor” and I never have used it. Do you?
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