WordPress Changes – Your Poll #1 – Herded ?

February 8, 2015February 8, 20153 Comments

Our user interface here on WordPress is about to change forever unless you take action now. I hate the new reader and the new posting editor (Beep-beep-Boop) that doesn’t work on my desktop. Please read the following post from Graham in Hats on Freed From Time and then make your voice heard. Thank you!

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This is your opportunity to vote on the recent changes to WordPress and there are two vital reasons to do so.

Firstly, the survey is unlikely to be published, this is your opportunity to be heard. Secondly, by ourselves it is unlikely that we can bring about improvement but, investors and allied businesses do not like management that alienates it’s customers and fails in new endeavours. They can make a difference.

Our endeavour is to rescue WP, for desktop users and for the new mobile market.

Workarounds are here , more articles are here and, for surety, you might wish to note my standby blog:- http://freedfromtime.blogspot.co.uk/

The subjects for these polls will include: Herded, Transparency and Democratized Blogging, The New Interface Failures, Misleading Claims, Censorship, Privacy/Security and Management. Each will have a Link when available and I will post most days.

The more who attend, the better chance we have…

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About WordPress Changes and What We Can Do

January 27, 2015January 27, 20157 Comments

REBLOGGED WITH PERMISSION from: Freed From Time

If you are a WordPress user on a PC desk format and are not happy with the changes to the format for communication, stats and “BEEP BeeP BooP” publishing page, then let’s do something about it! If you like and agree with what you see, then please reblog this post to your site too. Because unlike in the past, it is clear that Matt Mullenweg and the WP *Helper Monkeys are not listening to us in the forums.

*Helper Monkeys: Their term not mine.

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For Help with the changes please click here . This content is Underlying Motive, The Problem, Probable Cause, How We Can Make a Difference and Remaining Questions.

Underlying Motive

Matt Mullenweg, owner and recently appointed CEO of WordPress, has himself indicated a wish to pursue the mobile market which is made clear in and interview with Forbes click here. However that interview does not indicate any intention to abandon desk top users.

Add to this, Tiger Global now have at a total of $110 million invested in WP here. Tiger Global also have investments in the expanding Indian and South American mobile and e-commerce markets.

This is altogether an entirely legitimate business pursuit but it’s gone wrong.

The Problem

The mobile versions of the user interface have been so inept as to spoil its credibility from the outset and at the same time alienate desktop users. Complaints…

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It ain’t over till the fat lady sings

October 22, 2014October 24, 201447 Comments

And I don’t feel like singing.

This year has been tough for many reasons, health, health insurance changes, lack of time to work on our Mountain Farmlet and lack of money for same. The other day I said in passing that it couldn’t get any worse and the lady I was speaking to looked at me and said: “Never say that! It can get worse…”

Well, I’m not one to think that way, but sure enough it is worse.

Bob came home recently and told me he had been let go at his work. Made redundant as some would say. He looked stunned and sad. I didn’t look in the mirror, but I’m certain that I did too. The letter of termination said “… terminated, effective immediately due to lack of work for his skill set.” Strangely, it was dated from January of this year. I guess the owner was hoping for things to gain speed. Under the circumstances it was a delay that certainly benefited us over these past months.

We are not yet certain about what we will do. We have been discouraged about how things have been going, and see this as a possible opportunity to really dig in and get some work done on the mountain and here in town. We have recently offered to sell a bit off the top (so to speak) of our land to the neighbor that lives above us. The land is on the other side of the access road, adjacent to his property and would give him some road frontage. He was interested! He has offered to help us with repairs in exchange for the property. If done this is a win/win for all of us. It also means that the section on his side will be properly maintained and make a better view for all.

In the meantime, we are getting rid of anything we don’t want or need. If it is superfluous it is out’a here!

Translation: YARD SALE, Ebay, and Etsy.