Change for change’s sake: phooey!
Is anyone else annoyed by the new WordPress stats page? To my eye, it doesn’t give me enough of a one-glimpse snapshot. I have to scroll down and down and down to see certain things that used to be right there “above the fold.” Every so often, a poll pops up asking, “Why do you like the old version?” I click every box.
This happens so much I have to think it’s some kind of social experiment. They mess with my favorite cereal. They ruined my favorite microwave jambalaya. No toothpaste stays the same for very long, and, sadly, the phenomenon has even sifted down to underpants. Hanes, what have you done to my formerly perfect briefs in assorted colors? Now they fit like they were made for overweight men with butt-droop. (Maybe that’s who the Indonesian workers think they’re being made for…)
I’m sick and tired of it. Leave my stuff alone.
Talking to you, WordPress.
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WHAT THE HELL 
Yup, I am still puzzled why they single columned it. If it were double columned it would be okay, still like the original better though.
Weird too that you can’t permanently select one or the other…
Can’t stand it… Would prefer they let users opt in vs forcing us to opt out.
Exactly. Where can I just check a box that says, “Old style”?
Hate it. Why do they think making us scroll down numerous times for what we could see on one screen is an improvement?
That’s just it! There’s no improvements; it’s just different. Superfluous BS!
I hate the new notification plot as well.
Me too. Much less flexible.
Haven’t really looked at the stats page, but I’m with John on the notification stuff. Like I can always tell the difference between white and extremely light blue? There’s not even a notice to say that I replied to something.
Yes, I hate that you can’t tell if you’ve replied already or not.
I know . . . did I say that already? đŸ˜›
Hatin’ on the notification box myself. Stats never have a been a big interest of mine, but I don’t always do well with change. I’m still ill that the boop boop boop admin screen still pops up every now and again even though I selected to revert.
Yeah, I’m always having to click through to the “classic” interface. The new shit doesn’t seem to work as well. Weird formatting stuff happens and it’s just generally screwed. Bleccch.
I’m with you on WordPress doing some kind of weird social experiment. I quit checking my stats. The old way made sense to me, the new way doesn’t.
I just read a post by a blogger called “Gold Fish” on all these WP changes. Plenty to pissed off about.
The post by Gold Fish covers a whole lot of problems with the new “improvements.” As discussed in that post, every one of their recent “improvements” has resulted in less functionality and more difficulty doing some of the most simple things on WordPress. One wonders if they’re going to some day soon have some type of fee for service where we have to pay for the functionality they’ve now taken away.
Yeah, there’s got to be some underlying strategy here. Otherwise, WP is just a thousand chimps banging away at keyboards.
I haven’t really noticed anything different. The stats are still stats–did they change? I guess I haven’t been checking mine enough. Not sure about the notification changes. I guess I’m really, really behind on it all. I posted a few days ago and everything seemed normal. Am I missing something? I feel terribly left out, lol.
I think you’re in a blissful state! You’re not stats-obsessed, and you roll with the changes. I just wish WP could leave well enough alone…