Reader view
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@designsimply
OK, I take some of it back – you are listening a little bit.
Wordcount is back but you have retained the pointeless reading time.
Some posts in the reader go directly to the blog page but some still go to the interim page. It seems those without pictures in the reader go to blog and those that do go to the interim. That is very odd and very inconsistent. I would like to go directly to the blog page every time. -
Are they going to fix the presentation of poetry in the reader? We are being forced to use the full text setting if we want it to look normal. A lot of work and passion goes into writing and it makes us look illiterate when our poetry is laid out like one big sentence. Something that looks visually unappealing is not going to lure people in. If I don’t recognize quickly that I’m looking at a poem, I may not bother looking further.
Again…changing something only to make it worse.
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I agree, apetcher.
This is the worst change ever…a yucky white generic page making everyone’s blog look the same. It should not matter where we click on a post in the reader, it should always take us to that person’s blog. Too many distractions and misleading paths….for what reason? -
Exactly mishunderstood, what is the point of bloggers creating a theme and a style only for WP to decide that we should all look the same!
The developers who make the changes simply do not understand the customer base or the reasons why people use the product. Most recent changes have delivered no improvement for seious bloggers but have concentrated on the one click, simplistic Facebook market! -
@mishunderstood, yes, someone it’s going too look into making the formatting for the summary feed excerpts look a little nicer. There are also other updates being worked on too, so I am not sure of a time frame on it. It is on the list!
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@designsimply
Once again I have to ask – why make the changes before they are fully tested? -
@apetcher, testing is good, but also doesn’t always get you all the answers all the time. Not only that, testing can be flawed sometimes. Like most things, it’s not 100% perfect. Also, while it is a good thing to do (and I like doing it and always want to add more), it is also still just one piece to consider in the mix.
Our community here is diverse and interesting and smart, and we choose to work together with all of you both before and after updates.
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Working together “before” is the key! A survey would really help to determine who your members really are. There are a lot of serious writers and followers. I would think that WordPress would want to maintain those types of writers. The format, usability and presentation are so very important. We can go elsewhere, but if you look at how long some of us are here, you will know we love WordPress. It is very upsetting when changes are made that do not benefit, but only frustrate.
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I can’t add or delete tags either :I And the lighter text-color doesn’t go well with the white background for me :( :'( I miss the old WP reader :'(
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@designsimply
Yesterday I said:Yay! You made me smile and it’s been over a year since wordpress.com changes evoked a smile from me. :) Thank you for that.
I have long respected the professionalism you display under pressure and your ability to rise above the flak that arises when unexpected changes are made. Today I have read the Reader Refresh original post comments and responses to them in all the related threads. I’m so impressed with how you and Ben listened to and worked with us users. (Smiling and bowing). Remain calm and carry on.
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WordPress, are you quite crazy?!! I think you’ve made a monumental mistake with this new Reader. I’m quite offended by the fact that you are encouraging other bloggers on WordPress to not even bother to visit the real blog. Arriving on a very plain format where anything centralized is no longer central looks weird – it’s all over the place – what a mess! And while in that view no additional page links can be seen or anything listed in the sidebar. I don’t personally have anything to sell, but I do create image links for blog friends who have books and art to sell. This new (lazy blogger readers view) will seriously diminish the chance of those links ever being seen.
Have you given any thought to bloggers who have paid adverts, sell their own products, or are small book publishers? They are bound to have many links on their blogs and additional pages they will be hoping others will view. But how can they if they are not even shown?!
If you leave this new Reader format in place you I’m sure will lose those bloggers who either have something for sale or are using their blog to direct readers to other links.
I’ve also noticed that embedded tweets don’t show, but instead a very plain light blue box (similar to a quote) appears with links attached. What’s the point of embedding a tweet if you can’t see the actual tweet? You might as well just post a boring link.
And as for the suggested reading time – total rubbish, it’s not accurate. I have one post that says it’s a four minute read – no it’s not! It has many links for readers to view and also and embedded You Tube video over three minutes long. So not accurate at all.
For goodness sake WordPress get rid of it, there was nothing wrong with the way the Reader was!
Why don’t you ask bloggers what they want, instead of thinking up changes that no-one wants.
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@montasnim. thank you for reporting the tags issue! I am looking into it and so far I’ve found it’s a limited problem only happening in one browser. May I please ask what browser and OS version you are using?
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@designsimply
I can be very testy, as well you know, but you are good stuff and you’ve got a friend. I can see how you are paving the way for developers, users and support staff, to create a better path for UI development and feature development, and I appreciate that. -
The elimination of tags except one in the Reader was one of the main reasons I stopped using it a few years ago. Back in the days before Reader, the posts were easily accessible by clicking the tags on our blog posts. Now all those tags go only to our own blog posts. That is when I received huge numbers of new views through WP tags. It was open to the public as well as WP bloggers. It also was a complete archive of posts with those tags. Now the tags go back a couple/few months and that’s all.
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@dandelionsalad
I never experienced a significant flow of traffic from the global tags pages on either of my blogs way back when. It was in 2011 that WordPress changed the tags and categories links in the post area to direct only to your local tags and categories pages on your own blog. We can still get to the listings of global tags when logged in:
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/books/
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My blog received lots of views via the global tags. Now, rarely do I receive a view from Reader or the global tags.
I know how to get to them, but the readers of my blog and general public do not.
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@dandelionsalad
It’s interesting that we had a completely different experience re: global tags driving traffic to our blogs. I think the general public are most likely to use use google keyword searches to locate blogs with content that interests them, and other ways of finding sites by subject that are not necessarily hosted by WordPress.com. http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2014/01/20/finding-blogs-with-similar-content/ -
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