Reaction to New Dashboard 98% Negative
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Is it possible to change back to the “old” Dashboard? Both colors and structure were much better – in my opinion. Can’t you make a checkbox where for example people can choose if they want the old or the new one?
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Not thrilled at all with the new dashboard and lack of warning about the change. My biggest problem is that I can’t figure out how to upload images. Can anyone help me? Thanks!
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I didn’t even know about it til a few minutes ago, when another blogger posted about it (complaining mightily). This has got to be the ugliest piece of crap I’ve seen in a long time. And it’s especially upsetting when it comes from a company with a rep for great design.
1. Orange? Please! The only color that could possibly be worse is lime green.
2. White space. What is the advantage of having everything sprawled out over such much territory?
3. Comments box. It takes up half the page even though it’s empty.How about letting us at least set our own color choices for our work pages?
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>>>My biggest problem is that I can’t figure out how to upload images
In Write, there are 4 icons after Add Media. Hovering over them with your pointer should bring up their functional names: Add Image, Add Video, Add Audio, Add Media.
Click on Add Image and you should get a popup box. If you get that far, you should be able to upload an image from your PC. (BTW, you can now Shift-Click to upload several at once!)
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I have to say that I am aghast in the changes that WordPress has made. My old dashboard was awesome. This is an ugly unwieldy thing that I just want to pretend never happened.
It’s my prom date in dashboard form.
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What happened? This is awful to work with. How do I upload photos now? The browse option is gone. Not to mention that saved drafts disappear and View Drafts gets me an empty file . . .
What was an easy place to build blog space has turned into less readable and less easy to navigate site.
Hugely dissatified with changes.
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What a mess.
Images?? You can’t even add categories.
The “link” feature is just an empty box, I can’t find or publish my saved posts, and my older posts seem to have disappeared completely.
I can’t complain,. since it’s free (although I did just pay for an extra)
It wasn’t broke….why did they fix it? If it lasts long, we may have to migrate to Typepad.
Ouch!!!
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It’s probably nothing like 98% negative — it’s just that the screamers and shouters tend to come to the fore.
There are things I don’t like about the new interface, but there were things I didn’t like about the old one. There are things I like with the new, and things I liked with the old.
Leaving aside the glitches for a second, on balance the new desktop is not worse than the old and has the potential to be better. At the moment though, I see it mainly as something different and therefore a little unnerving when a user’s habitual way of working has to change.
On the subject of glitches, they are to be expected when rolling out any new system. No matter how much you test, the first time real volumes of real users start interacting with any new system they break it in ways no one could have conceived.
The real tests of a new system are whether it can survive the first 48 hours, then the first seven days, and then how quickly the glitches can be sorted. (And yes, I have worked on/been in charge of quite a few roll-outs, including GUIs to quite complex back-end systems.)
The only criticism I’d make at the moment is the lack of warning. I’d have made sure I wasn’t editing my blog at the critical time. In fact, I’d have stayed out for least 12-24 hours (and have done since the new interface went live, other than trying to get the post I was working on finished).
So no, reaction isn’t 98% negative.
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Okay so I’ll get a pie in the face for this, or maybe a few but once I realized my ‘puter didn’t crash and it was just a dashboard change I found a few functions that I’m pretty happy with. The ability to mass moderate comments on one page and to download a whole gallery (ah hmm) just like ebay was a gift imo.
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In all the posts I’ve seen, people are using features I never use, so I can’t judge what problems they’re having. All I can do is sympathize and hope WP fixes things for them.
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I can upload pictures put I can’t send them to my posts anymore. I tried it with Firefox and IE – no chance. OMG – it’s almost as bad as Second Life. Is there no testing done any more?
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What OS are you using? There have been ongoing issues with people using Linux. The image upload problem I had last night, but it was fixed. I don’t think all fixes have been universally applied yet.
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I think your problems just about the bugs. I haven’t too much opinions of that, but I think that’s OK fr me.
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I am using Windows Vista Home Premium. And it works now, but takes several minutes to show in the browser windows. I got the same pic three times in my post suddenly. guess that comes from the three times I tried to send the pic to the post. :-(
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With my Firefox and absolutely ravishing Andreas04 template this new design works without hitches and let’s be fair; it may look like sh*t warmed over but it knows quite a few improvements.
The longstanding Entering for SPACE problem is still there but, Surprise!, I found out that
<p > < /p>
does the trick.*customer with satisfied smirk*
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Last night when the change was sprung on us and things were even buggier, I ran over to Blogger to get an account in case I had to evacuate. I’ve just played around with Blogger. Yecch. I’ll stick out the changes here.
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Marvelous. Now I get to face a classful of 20 students who’ve been using WordPress in my blogging lessons for the past month, have just started to get the hang of it, and now are going to have to go through that learning curve all over again.
Magic.
Thanks WordPress.com for adding a bit of interest and excitement to my day. Here I go off to rewrite all of my lesson handouts. On my weekend.
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I like the new dashboard! :) Even if no-one else does.
I don’t get what people have wrong with it – it’s basically just like the old one, it just looks a little different and it has a few extra features.
If people never accepted change we’d never have invented the internet, and then there’d have been no dashboard at all – and no blogging either. I’m sure people will get used to the new design.
The only criticism I’d make is that WordPress didn’t run a beta program – they should have done that and ironed out any problems before forcing everyone to change to the new design.
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