Reader changed?
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What everybody else above said. I could have lived with the reader changes WordPress made some days ago, but what I’ve seen today is a very bad joke. If I click on a post title, I expect to be sent to the original blog post, so I can see it as the blogger wanted to present it, with his chosen layout and bells and whistles. But a sterile pop-up window to read the whole post? WordPress, are you kidding me?? Why should anyone buy customization upgrades in the future, if the reader’s not gonna send people with the first click on the title to the blog anymore?
In one sentence: the reader is pretty much useless and user unfriendly if it stays as it is now.
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I’m in the process of changing over to FeedDemon for RSS feeds of my Reader sites. I dislike Reader that much since the changes. I know FeedDemon has been discontinued but right now it is much better than Reader. And it works just fine. When it stops working, I have several other choices.
I hate the pop up window. I hate that it sends me to a reader like page for the blog I want to go to for reading. I don’t have to put up with it. Only one of the blogs I read use the Read More and it works to send you straight to the blog. So if we all want someone to visit our blog and perhaps read more of our posts, we have to use the read more tag.
If I am going to have to read something in a window, I’ll just use my RSS feed and not bother visiting WordPress.com at all. Which simply hurts the traffic on the site for other blogs I might find via reader or Freshly Pressed.
That’s shooting yourself in the foot. Which reminds me. Guy please add RSS feeds to your site. Having to make an RSS feed via feedyes is a pain in the tush.
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I hate the new reader. I want to click and go to the blog I want to read, not read in some weird pop up. Also, everyone’s hits are going to plummet. The only reason I did not go self hosted months ago is because I liked the reader so much. Now why should I keep my blog here?
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I agree, the new reader has made it impossible to read blogs and like/comment on my phone, and really hard on my tablet. The pop up is crap, I want to go to the original blog so I can explore it further and see the blogger’s customisations. On mobile devices I can’t even be sure the comment or like function will work each time!
This is terrible as I’ve not been interacting with some of my favourite blogs. Thinking about changing blog readers! -
I was very unpleasantly surprised this afternoon when I clicked on a blog in my Reader page display and was greeted by the new initial blog presentation. I guess someone at WordPress had too much candy to eat from Halloween and wanted to share their nightmare with us!
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The new reader is awful. Please bring back the old one.
I mean, okay, I get it. It’s probably more mobile-like, which seems to be today’s buzzword… but it’s still awful. If I wanted something ‘mobile-like’, I’d read it on my cellphone.
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Please change the reader back, the extra click and process for blogs I have already signed up for, plus the comment bar gets stuck in the middle of the page and so I miss a paragraph of what was there.
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Thanks to everyone for your feedback and ideas.
As you all may know, at WordPress.com we’re always working to make your blogging and reading experience top notch, so we are always working to bring you new features and improve on existing ones.
Our goal with changing the Reader is to help make it easier for people to find your content, like it, comment on it, and become more engaged.
For those concerned about stats, all visits to your blog posts via the Reader will be counting as a page view.
As with all changes, some will like them, and some will not. We’re hoping once you’ve given the new Reader a chance, you’ll realize it makes reading and engaging with blogs even easier.
We’re reading your feedback and will take it into consideration as we continue to improve both the Reader and WordPress.com in general. Concrete suggestions on how to improve things are therefore very useful to us, as well as any feedback pointing to functionality that may not be working as intended.
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I have created a new thread about this, because I haven’t found this one, but have since been told of its existence.
I can CLEARLY see now I’m not the only one which is awesome.
That’s what I posted in my thread:
An idea:
Can we PLEASE go back to the way Reader worked before this update/improvement?
It is THE most annoying thing to have to click the link and it DOESNT open. Instead a pop-up opens, where I have to click AGAIN to go to the actual post. If I didn’t WANT the post I wouldn’t click the link in the first place, so WHY, I ask. WHY?!
I used to love my reader, full of blog posts but now I dread it. I’ve already seen 3 posts on 3 different blogs who hate this new way too.Please, please. Do not improve on things that work perfectly.
I implore you, please bring the old ways back. I’m not the only one who dislikes the new.Thank you kindly.
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For those concerned about stats, all visits to your blog posts via the Reader will be counting as a page view.
Thanks for that information.
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In response to the happiness Engineer.
1.One click is better than two.
2. I should not have to post my entire blog in reader or to my email subscribers, in order to have my photograph show up in reader.
3. Posting our entire blogs in email and in reader defeats the purpose of customization.
Three concrete things that could easily be easily changed.
The easier it is to see my blog without visiting the less reason I have to tailor my blog, the harder it is to reach my blog the lower the value of the blog. -
I don’t like the new reader. I don’t like the popup so I go the extra step to get the original view.
I would also like to go back to where I clicked on a blog when I finish reading and not go to the top every time.
I too miss the word count and info on how many pictures there might be.
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I pretty much agree with rakmilphotography. I really don’t care about the new reader font but this pop-up you guys have designed is idiotic. Please have an opt-in/opt-out option or get rid of it all together! When I click on a post I want to go to that person’s blog, not to some slow-loading pop-up window.
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When I click on a post I want to go to that person’s blog, not to some slow-loading pop-up window.
I’m with you on that – get rid of the pop-up!
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For those concerned about stats, all visits to your blog posts via the Reader will be counting as a page view.
Testing with a friends blog we can read an entire post via the reader and leave a comment and it DOESN’T count as a read, but if I approve the comment then it does count as a read. So people who use the reader, click on my post and read it without leaving a comment DO NOT count as reads.
As with all changes, some will like them, and some will not. We’re hoping once you’ve given the new Reader a chance, you’ll realize it makes reading and engaging with blogs even easier.
I am confused how it makes things easier. Can you please explain to me how to use the new reader?
The way I see it I have two options.
Option one: scroll down to the post in the reader, clock on the title, read it in the little pop up (which I find distracting and hard on the eyes and doesn’t retain the look of the blog) finish reading and close the popup, whereby the person who wrote the blog doesn’t get a view count from me.Option two: scroll down to the post I want to read, click on the post to read it, get the popup but don’t read it, click AGAIN to take me to the blog where it is easier to read but he blog owner also gets a view.
Now, one extra click might not sound like much, but it’s double the work when you read a lot of blogs.
Now, combine it with how I like to read blogs. I like to go through my reader and open up a stack of blogs in new tabs quickly, then I go through slowly at my leisure and close the tabs when I’ve read the blog. I can’t figure out how to do that in the new reader. If I right click and open in a new tab from the reader then I get the popup in the new tab, not the actual blog. When I clock the popup to take me to a new blog it opens up in a new window. If I’m looking at, say, opening ten blog posts then I end up with 20 tabs instead of ten.
Now, lets look at how many extra clicks this is.
Old way: click to open the blog in a new tab, click to get to the tab, click to close the tab.
Three clicks.
New Way: click to open the pop-up in a new tab, click to get to the tab, click to open the actual blog post, click to close the blog post, click to close the popup tab. Five clicks.I’m willing to be open to believing you when you say the new system makes things easier, but you’re going to have to explain to me how. It makes it longer to be able to give a blogger a ‘view’ and reading it in the popup is (for me) more distracting and not as easy on the eyes. Is there a method of opening a blog straight from the reader in a new window (as we used to be able to do) that I’m missing? I’m really trying to see it but I can’t.
I’m really not one to moan about changes, I just figure out the new way of doing things and get on with it, but I can’t figure out how to use this new reader as efficiently as the old one. I’ve tried.
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@rakmilphotography
I could say much more but I’m not into SHOUTING! into the wind, if you know what I mean.The concept of visitors actually visiting a post and reading it on the blog it was published on, is quickly becoming history due to the mobile explosion. The mobile web is growing at a phenomenal rate, and is forecast to overtake the desktop web in 2014 and that’s just a few months from now. Then more people will access the internet for the first time using a mobile phone rather than using a desktop or a laptop. Presently, there are more mobile users on this planet than those who own toothbrushes, so the replacement concept is setting up so mobile users can do everything in the Reader.
- Publish posts in the Reader ie. here http://wordpress.com/post/
- Comment on posts in other blogs in the Reader
- Respond to comments on your own posts in the Reader
- Respond to responses to comments you made on other posts in other blogs in the Reader
- Click like buttons in the Reader
- Click sharing button for social media site in the Reader
- Click reblog buttons in the Reader
and so on … the next big surprise will probably be a live chat feature in the Reader.
The WordPress.com Reader is becoming the new black and possibly the new blog. Why have a blog when everything, except archiving the posts can be done in the Reader?
Why click into any blog and see the nice themes and customizations and all that other jazz the blogger devoted time and energy into creating there, when you can do it all on your teeny tiny itsby bitsy pocket buddy?
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Dear Anyone Who Cares at WordPress,
Every change made to the reader is ridiculous and hinders the use of this site that used to be amazing.
What are you guys thinking???!
We have to double click to get into a blog. The snippet is a slap in the face after the work we put into our posts.
The dark titles are hideous.
The missing word count means you have no idea if you’ve read the whole post and gives you no indication of whether it’s long or short.
The name of the blog is barely visible.
None of the changes have any benefit except to make our writing and reading experience more difficult.Concrete suggestions?
~Just change it back to how it was. That’s the way everyone liked it. I can’t imagine anyone liking it the way it is.
~Do a poll, ask your members who have been loyal to this site what they think. There are many who don’t visit the forums.
~Consider how these changes have angered so many people. Those who actually come here and voice their opinions are only a fraction of those who are upset by this.Please change it back to your wonderful WordPress reader. This is so frustrating.
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Ok, I’ve changed my settings so people can’t see my full post in the reader.
With the old reader people would click on my blog post in the reader and it would take them to my blog here they could read the full post and I got a view.
With the changes it meant people would click on my blog post in the reader, read it and not count as a view.
Now I have denied them the ability to do that. Now they click on the blog post in the reader, they get a popup telling them if they want to read the blog post then they need to click again, (basically asking if they’re REALLY sure they want to read the blog) and if they click again to read the blog post then it takes them to my blog and counts as a view. So basically if they want to read my blog then I force them to count as a view which means forcing them to take extra steps to read my blog.
I still don’t understand how to use the reader efficiently and how it makes things easier.
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