WordPress: When a new feature isn’t that great.

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Hello fellow Blogger, A Grace Full Life, I hope you don’t mind, I am using your Blog post as an example to discuss a new feature WordPress has come out with in our Reader view. Have you noticed the Comments in a post are now showing up in the Reader?

I used this as an example, because the comment was so long that on my Ipad, it took up my entire screen. I used to see just a thumbnail of each post, so I could quickly scroll through and my FOCUS was on the Blog post writer, NOT on the comments that are left on each site.

Has anyone else noticed this.

Thoughts… Like it or not?

I’ve written to the Happiness Engineers mentioning my displeasure with this new feature. Also, asking if there is a way to turn comments off, so they don’t show up. If you are like me and not a fan of this new development, you might want to send them an email.

23 thoughts on “WordPress: When a new feature isn’t that great.”

    1. Yes, the focus should be on the Blogger’s post, not on the person commenting. Now, I am drawn to the comment and not the post. Another thing they did was when we comment, instead of commenting AFTER the other comments, they moved our comment to the top of the comments. I think they have better improvements to make.

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  2. I’m with you. I find this new view very distracting. I think they may have been trying to make commenting easier form Reader, but I would rather they read the full post and then decide to comment. I’ve also noted some sites now say Login to comment, when in fact I am logged in all the time. Good luck with the WPHE. Allan

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    1. I find the whole commenting aspect of WordPress frustrating. I can’t “like” a comment from my laptop yet I can “like” a comment from my smartphone? I can’t comment at all without entering my credentials. And the comments you mention added in Reader seem to be hit or miss; sometimes one, sometimes two, or none at all. I’ll admit I’m not distracted by them, but it’s just another example of how the commenting aspect is more convoluted than it needs to be.

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      1. In my mind, commenting should be controlled by the individual blogger on his post. You should be able to allow comments, hold comments for moderation or exclude comments. Most readers do not engage or comment and this extra distraction on Reader may mean fewer people bother to read. WP needs to stop fixing what ain’t broken. Cheers Dave. Allan

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  3. Yes, I am with you. I don’t like this new feature. I also don’t like how we reply at the top of comments, instead of the bottom. I would take the time to read through comments. Now I don’t always do that, since I can type mine in at the top.

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    1. Agree, I felt like by reading other comments, we were also possibly meeting new Bloggers. Well, unless we all send a message to the HP Engineers, they will think we LIKE the new changes. One person commenting (ME) won’t make the difference. I encourage others to voice an option. HEY… how is your daughter/n/law. Did I miss your post on the update? I’ll head over to your Blog.

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    1. Oh no! I haven’t had that issue. Although, sometimes I am brought to someone website and from there I can’t LIKE the post. That’s frustrating. I just don’t like these new changes, they weren’t necessary and they don’t improve the system.

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      1. I just LIKED this comment. It looks like it worked. If so, I just found out, that I can only replies to my comments. Go figure!
        Most changes that WP makes I am not happy about it. Perhaps I am just afraid of changes. But I still subscribe to: if ain’t broken…

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