Tag Surfer Missing
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At the risk of having the odd opinion in this thread, I’ll say that I do like the “Read Blogs” format.
The old tag surfer was something I gave up trying to use because I used tags (categories) such as “beef” or “poultry” and would have to plough through a lot of rap music folk who were having a beef (argument) about something of no interest mixed in with posts about the difficulties of chicken (poultry) farmers.
While I may still have to do that, the “Read Blogs” function is much faster and does seem to offer many more posts on the list.
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…the topics bring you to a wp page with list of article, when you are dealing with photos it is a nightmare as none ot them show up just the title…
I don’t understand your comment there?
When I try the “Read Blogs” the posts are shown with the first part of the article, including a large image (presumably the first image in the post) with small thumbnails of all the other pictures in the post displayed below.
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New system sucks. Too many clicks, Lost in navigation. Give me all my tags in a single list. Give that to me in an RSS feed and I’ll read it on my iPad like I want to read it. I use Tag Surfer for discovery, Blog Surfer for favourite reads. My Blog Surfer blogs are subscribed through Google Reader to Flipboard. Wouldn’t mind that capability with the Tag Surfer. One single RSS feed.
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This is the first time I subscribed to a topic. How do I unsuscribe? There seems to be no button for that. Thank you.
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@tess sorry it seems to works now, do not know why. I was referring to using topics section tags as nothing was showing up on any of my tags even photography in the read blogs section. Now it looks similar at the old tag surfer, and I can add new tag (topics) I will give it a try. Thanks
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@historicalfictionebooks
It’s due to the reason that it’s not the right place for you.
go to http://wordpress.org/support/ -
If you want to see all your tags in a row, just scroll the cursor on Posts and click Tags.
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Agreed, the Tag Surfer gave some odd results sometimes. For instance, I use the tag “Move” (as in Playstation Move) and kept getting blogs about people moving (as in “new apartment” or “new house”.
But the vast majority of blogs were very relevant, and the most important point was that I didn’t have to click around to find a good index of mostly good blogs — I got them all using a single click. I know it sounds lazy, but it’s the sort of thing you get used to; especially when one uses the feature as much as I did.
The “Read Blogs” works, but it’s much more hassle, which has led me to read much fewer other blogs (in fact, it’s almost down to zero) — though on the up-side I feel like I’ve seriously cut down on the guilty pleasure of wasting too much time idle-browsing blogs. Now I limit my blog-reading to when I’m looking for something specific. So it’s a little bit of a lose-win situation. :)
I want to add that I asked a support question about the missing Tag Surfer feature, and the reply I got was that they are working to improve the “Read Blogs” function. Exactly what that entails, I do not know, but in the context I read it as “It’ll be able to do what the Tag Browser previously did.”, though I could be reading too much into it.
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I too, miss tag surfer! It was easy and quick–part of my daily routine to see what other folks in my niche were up to! Is there someplace where you let people know you are changing things before they happen?? Comunication is always nice.
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…though on the up-side I feel like I’ve seriously cut down on the guilty pleasure of wasting too much time idle-browsing blogs.
LOL! Don’t I know about doing that!
The Read Blogs system seems to load faster, and it keeps older posts up longer so if you miss a week of checking a tag (unless it’s a really busy one like “recipes”) you won’t miss that gem of a blog before it floats off into Read Blog obscurity.
As for the answer from staff, I’m sure that are working to improve… and whatever they do will be a surprise!
They haven’t asked for opinions of users since the big-dashboard update in Dec. 2008:
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@historicalfictionebooks
There should be a button or tick-box on the emails you receive about new posts in this thread to unsubscribe. -
“If you want to see all your tags in a row, just scroll the cursor on Posts and click Tags.”
Where? Why are all these navigation controls buried? makes a pretty design but usability has been thrown out the window.
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Ah! This new kind of tag surfer (Read Blogs) ignores the line breaks in the poems.
But I like the new format. I think it’s a good change, in general.
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Please read what Staff have said here:
Howdy, the feature is not likely to come back but we are working on making the reading interface on the homepage even better. Thanks for the feedback.
https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/bring-back-tag-surfer?replies=2#post-770666 -
Having to check tags one by one is useless for the way I work. If this is the way it’s going to be from now on, that feature is effectively gone.
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