Reader changed?
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Hi everyone
There is a very quick fix for not having to use the pop-up window (which I loathe with a passion) in the Reader. Instead of clicking on a Blog post title to read it, either click on the word count, or the time in the bottom left of the blog post, and you go straight to the blog post, bypassing the pop-up summary window.
The blog post opens in a new window, so when you want to go back to reader just close the blog post and you’re back in reader.
Hope this helps other people who hate the new pop-up summary window!
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Thanks Bertieandme, glad I came to the bottom without reading through all those reflecting my irritation. I read mainly on a computer, but at times on my iphone or ipad. I have to say this latest change with the popup for reading caused me to stop reading a lot of the blogs I was following because of the poor design. I read and post for enjoyment, when some web designer has a brilliant-in-their-own-mind change that alienates users, I guess they may never know the havoc the create.
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Thank you so much bertieandme. I too loathe the pop up. I think it has something to do with being phone app friendly.
It’s a shame WP did provide the inforamtion you have provided. Good Job. :-)
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FWIW the change reported by bertieandme above took place on November 9th and I don’t believe any changes have been made since that time.
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If it wasn’t clear from the tag I added to this thread, I’m requesting Staff to remove the spam links that have appeared in the tags on this discussion. Thanks!
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@timethief – that just highlights what others have posted up. How would you know to click the word count to bypass the pop-up? There’s no indication directing a reader to do that who didn’t already know about it.
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Add my name to the list of people who dislike the new Reader, for the same reasons so many others have already expressed.
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As I suggested years ago,
Wordpress.com could do what it wants this reader.Make the Reader page available for an RSS subscription.
Wp used to this for tags years ago, and Facebook presently does this with each accounts home page, presently. -
I think there is something hugely wrong with the tech team of WP, currently their stats figures are way different from the stats I’m getting from the other stat monitoring sites. If the difference would have been of 5-10 views then I would have understood but the diffrence is of more than 100. That’s a pity.
I think this whole ploy is bring down the page views of the blogs, I don’t see any other valid reason. Though I bought their paid domain upgrade but now I’m feeling that it would have been better if I would have shifted my site out, maybe to wordpress dot org
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@gaurab27 Yes, according to wp stats, one of my blogs had 232 views last week, according to Statcounter I had 423. Obviously not a grave matter for such a tiny site, but it must affect others who are actively trying to promote their sites.
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@colourcottage, but point is not about how small the sites are, isn’t it? It is about giving wrong stats and information to people. A wrong is a wrong. (I would have believed the mistake if it would 5-10 or even 20, as it can be because of the bots but the numbers are in 100’s and 1000’s )
It’s about explaining to your users why you have made certain changes and even after so many comments why there isn’t any remark from the concerned people.
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Another interesting thing has happened too, I don’t know if it’s related to the stats and missing posts in the wp reader – on some of the blogrolls I am on, that is, other people subscribing to me and showing their blog roll on their site, my blog does not get updated. I’m currently showing as if my last post was 10 days ago, 3-4 posts behind my current newest. So something is wonky with the rss too. Could be a whole different game, I just thought of it when you mentioned that less traffic was deliberate.
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@smallhousebiggarden – My vote would be to get rid of it entirely. Failing that why not switch them around? If people like the pop-up then they can click on “word count” to use it and the HUGE POST HEADLINE can link directly to the article.
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I think it’s pretty obvuous no one from WP is actually reading this thread!
FYI: I just accessed the reader for the first time in 9 days and nothing is any better…in fact it may be worse!! It won’t scroll past a certain point for me (2 screens worth of posts) and clicking to “load more” results in a nothing but a looooonnnnnggggg wait! -
I have had the same problem for weeks. When the reader does load, it doesn’t show more than the last 7 posts, and trying to reload it results in “loading” forever with no posts ever showing (not even the last 7). Many times it won’t load at all. The only way I can get it to load consistently (and to be able to scroll down past the last 7 posts) is to turn off extensions in Safari preferences. This is becoming more trouble than it’s worth, so I find myself just not checking the reader much any more. If anyone has found a way around this problem, I’d really like to know what to do. I used to depend on the reader, and just can’t any more.
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@ldweis, I figured I wasn’t alone in this “not loading” problem. I used to access the reader daily but as I said, this morning was my first time back there in 9 days. It’s too frustrating!
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So glad to know I’m not the only one with this loading problem. I got help from a WP person for a reader problem via a forum post a long time ago, but I don’t get the impression that anyone from WP is reading or responding to these comments. Doesn’t give one much hope of anything getting better. It’s too bad, because I used to really like the reader and checked it frequently. Now it’s just too much work.
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