Reader doesn't show enough information
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The new Reader interface doesn’t show the name of the blogger, only the blog, and the text and picture are so small I can’t see who’s posting. And the word count is gone, and the direct link to the original blog is harder to find.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Definitely give it a little more time before making judgments too quickly. Also, keep in mind that the Reader is under active development and always changing. It will continue to evolve!
About the name of the blogger, it should be there in the single-post view that you should see after clicking on any post title. If you’re sure you’re looking at the single-post view and you still cannot see the name of the blogger, please reply with a link for me and I will take a closer look.
The word count has changed to an estimated read time instead.
To get to the original blog post, just click or tap the title of the blog two times in a row. This is similar to how it was before except the 2nd click needs to happen on the post title instead of a separate link at the top.
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please fix the new and improved gray type so light I can’t read how old the post is – also does not show any more if I am following the blog – was useful when someone reblogged a Post – now does not seem to show any info – –
yes I know the “new improved” will be shoved down our throat yet again – but at least don’t break things in the process
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It’s not shoved. :- In my experience, a lot of updates get made based on feedback after features are announced. You may not like every single change, but please be open minded too!
I’ll forward your feedback about the light gray color of the post age. So I can get a better idea of where you’re coming from, would you say post age is a very important element to you? In context of post cards on the main Reader page, how important is it in your mind?
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Please return to giving the word count. Reading rates vary. Word counts are static. You may think the time is added value but actually it tells us nothing.
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Thanks for your feedback rebeccaluellamiller. We’re going to mull it over and possibly switch it back. No promises yet though, a final decision hasn’t been made yet.
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The way you develop the site is beyond belief. You dumb it down and claim that this is progress. My suggestion is that you ask users before making retrograde changes.
You will not listen to feedback – I know that – you never have! -
But these changes are not improvements, you have taken a wrecking ball to the Reader and replaced it with something that defies logic! This appears to be the way that you develop the whole site. You make terrible changes and then try to justify it as progress. Please keep WP as a serious writing platform and resisit the temptation to turn it into a Facebook clone.
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I am sorry that you don’t like the Reader. You have posted general dislike statements numerous times but do not seem to be listening to responses. We listen to feedback and also make changes based on feedback, however, not every single request to keep things as they were in the past will be possible.
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Post age is very important – I don’t hang on every post in the Reader – sometimes only visiting once or twice a day – so seeing how old a post is helps me to figure out how far back to go so as to not miss postings helps
Also the blog name hidden in small type is also annoying – I liked the blog name at the top – some blogs are created more equal than others in how I read them
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Sheesh. .
WordPress.COM does not own our content; we own it.
Readers do not own our content; we own it.
We bloggers have no control over how our content is displayed in the WordPress.COM Reader to readers.
And, we have not agreed to have our content displayed in the WordPress.COM Reader at all.
Consequently, we need the ability to opt out of having our content displayed in the WordPress.COM Reader.
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P.S. As you know I’ve been here for over 9 years, please spare me any response to the effect of, you can make your blogs private so your content does not appear in the Reader.
This issue is yet another issue caused WordPress.COM Staff acting as if …
as if they own our content;
as if they consult us bloggers prior to changes being made when they don’t;
as if manipulating us into providing “constructive comments” aimed at improving a feature we do not like, will result in meeting our needs when it hasn’t done so in the past, is not doing so in the present, and won’t do so in the future. -
Consequently, we need the ability to opt out of having our content displayed in the WordPress.COM Reader.
The closest thing to that would be to use the “Summary” setting for feeds in the WP Admin > Settings > Reading page, which works to truncate content offered via a blog’s feed. The title and a short snippet of text will still be available in the Reader for summary feeds.
You cannot force all readers to only look at your blog using the blog address directly. The web offers multiple different ways to view content. One other example is email subscriptions, another way for people to see and be notified about posts separate from loading up the blog directly. If you truncate content in email subscriptions to try to force people to do an extra click to get to your content, using the feed summary setting I described above would be very similar to that and is an option for you. People can choose to subscribe by email or choose to look at the Reader or they can choose to find blogs in other ways (i.e. search engines or links from other sites). If you try to restrict people and not give them more ways to get to your content, it will probably just result in less traffic and less people seeing your content overall.
The Reader is acting to try to bring more readers to your content. It’s helpful for slow connections (this is important). It’s one additional way to find content besides all the other ways people found blogs before the Reader existed.
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@designsimply
“Summary” setting for feeds in the WP Admin > Settings > Reading page, which works to truncate content offered via a blog’s feed. The title and a short snippet of text will still be available in the Reader for summary feeds.Oh, please give me a break. That does nothing when it comes to mobile readers and I think that you know that I know that.
Our stats are page view stats but we would be foolish to assume that everyone who clicks a follow, like, share, reblog or comment link actually reads the post on your blog because odds are they may not, as Staff is busily making sure that readers have access to our content without page view stats on your blog.
Follow, like, share, reblog or comment clicks in the WordPress.COM Reader are not page views on our blogs. Our followers and anyone with a WordPress.com/Gravatar account (including the commercial spam likers we cannot block), who is logged into WordPress.com can “follow” your blog, “like”, “share” and “reblog” your posts and “comment” in several locations such as the Reader, without ever clicking into our blog and creating a single page view stat. Subscribers control how frequently they receive your posts (instantly, daily, weekly) and can comment in the Reader without ever clicking into the blog.
Logged in visitors using a mobile can read the full post without creating a page view stat. https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/wordpresscom-reader-show-full-text?replies=31#post-1373606
Yes we can control the length of the entry sent out on our RSS feed here Dashboard > Settings > Reading. We can choose the “summary” setting for our RSS feed rather than to “full text” and that will compel only those who are not using mobiles to click into the blog to read the full post which will create a page view stat.
Note: Above is an edited version of the many copy and paste responses to support questions about stats that I have posted into many pages threads here in the support forums.
Currently the web Reader limits the summary to 200 characters or 25 words, with some adjustment to avoid breaking words or sentences. The iOS Reader uses a similar limit, whereas the Android Reader simply limits the summary to four lines.The title doesn’t count towards this, nor does a featured image impact the cutoff. From: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/character-length-in-reader-summary?replies=7
When readers don’t have to click into a blog to read a full post in the WordPress.COM reader, exactly which off site activity constitutes creating a page view stat?
Is a remotely clicked like considered to be a page view stat?
Is a remotely clicked share considered to be a page view stat?
How about a remotely clicked reblog? Is it considered to be a page view stat?
Is a remotely clicked follow considered to be a page view stat?
Is a remotely made comment considered to be a page view stat?When readers read only an excerpt of a blog post in the Reader and do not click into the blog it’s published on, which off site activity (see above) that they undertake constitutes creating a page view stat?
… Hi timethief, here are some answers for you.
The short answer is that most of what you’ve listed does not count as a pageview. … https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/off-site-activity-and-stats?replies=8#post-1723139
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We just updated the summary cards to go straight to blogs from the Reader (a new change).
Also, single-clicks on visit links are updated.
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But now most of the summary cards don’t show pictures, which are the quickest way to grasp the subject of the post, and certainly more attention-getting than plain text.
But what do I know. I’ve never understood the reader and still haven’t figured out how I sometimes end up looking at a list of posts from a single blog rather than everything in the reader.
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