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WTF WordPress.com?? What happened to being the coolest free blogging platform in the universe?
First of all there was the annoying addition of unwanted advertising (unless you PAY WordPress to have it removed). And now this crap.
Infinite scroll.
Well, I don’t bloody want infinite scrolling and it seems I can’t get rid of it on this theme (that I know and love) and so will have to switch to some other theme that has a footer widget I can disable – Timethief has written this helpful blog post showing us how. But according to this support forum thread that option will also be removed once all themes have been converted.
Since when did WordPress.com become Facebook, forcing idiotic unwanted changes on its users? Not only is infinite scroll irritating, there is that totally naff pop-up “advertisement” on the bottom, for the theme designer and for WordPress.com, that blocks the blog post.
I want out.
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And so, where do you go when you leave WordPress? Overall, it’s been a much better platform for me than Blogger was.
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It really is annoying, isn’t it. This login thing has been bad, and the ads …. haven’t seen the scrolling, what does it do? I saw yesterday that Bit.ly turned into a social app. Barf. Why can’t it just do the little thing it was built to do?
I haven’t updated my main wordpress blog from wordpress.org, hopefully it won’t do the same thing but …
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I have no idea what this infinite scrolling thing is, but yesterday I noticed the footer where a footer should not be and was annoyed. I am also SUPER SUPER annoyed with that sidebar thing that comes up upon publishing a post, that tells you what your next goal for posts is and all this stupid shit. WTF is wrong with these people. I have not seen the ads. Where do you see them?
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I don’t have ads on my WordPress and I have a free account.
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I stand corrected. There is, indeed a pop-up on the bottom that blocks the bottom of the blog. Why was this even necessary? Was it not enough to have the info with links static at the bottom of the page?
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It I especially annoying if you are either using a smartphone and want to use the app (I actually prefer the desktop version on my phone) because you can’t scroll down to hit “mobile version”; or if you are searching for a particular post and Google sends you to the full archive and not the individual post/article. It was bad enough when certain users set no limit on the number of articles per page and you had 300 posts to look through.
And, yes. Just like Facebook… Apparently, Facebook is planning to come out with a phone or phone service. Thanks, but no thanks. If you can’t stop selling our info to third parties from Facebook and don’t bother telling us about every change that enables the sale of info, what’s to stop you selling info regarding my phone usage and habits?
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Interesting. Mine does not have infinite scrolling. Perhaps they just haven’t gotten to mine, yet.
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I am not sure what the infinite scrolling thing is either, but that bottom bar with the pitch for WordPress/theme is distinctly irritating, and yes, the kiddygarten sidebar about posts and goals and related horseshit is just condescending and infantile. But I have to agree about it still being better than Blogger, which is a two-bit tinkertoy that won’t let you leave a comment without standing on your head.
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When I discovered this blog post in my reader just now I signed into my wordpress account to check. So far, nothing seems to have changed on my page – or does this happen when you write a blog post? I’ve had that side bar with the goals and stuff for a while now, but it’s actually not too bad because I tend to forget to label and tag my posts, and it reminds me of that. 😉
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