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No need to apologise DG, it's not your fault 😉 Unfortunately the programmers at Blogger appear to have been changed from 'real people' to 'millennials' 🤔 At least we know who to blame should anything look not quite as we have grown used to over the years 🤣
Kevin Too | 08.10.20 - 7:12 a.m. | #
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All the HTML/CSS nerds must hate you today for using a "marquee"! Never change dg.
anon | 08.10.20 - 7:15 a.m. | #
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DG - I don't like the new version of Blogger, I'll keep using the old one for as long as possible.
UK Government - We don't like the new 2007 version of Excel, we'll keep using the old one.
Still Anon | 08.10.20 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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The blog is a lot more readable on mobile nowadays - I like it.
peter | 08.10.20 - 7:43 a.m. | #
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The blog should be just as unreadable on mobile as it ever was - nothing has been tweaked.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.10.20 - 7:46 a.m. | #
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Sadly I've hardly posted enough to be affected. Still using the (rather unpleasantly green) 2006 template because I can't change that without all sorts of horrible complicated things happening.
Sarah | Homepage | 08.10.20 - 8:07 a.m. | #
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Would it be helpful for your readers to flag up things like spelling errors? Or would you prefer that we understood that it's likely due to new Blogger, and pass on regardless?
Frank F | 08.10.20 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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The young geeks at WordPress have imposed Gutenberg Block Editor upon us, as far as I can tell it virtually takes away the ability to code. Now only basic posts can be written. Hopeless.
David | Homepage | 08.10.20 - 9:04 a.m. | #
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Are there any aspects of the new blogger software that are in fact improved, as they breathlessly claimed in the post you linked, “A better Blogger experience on the web”? They seem to have pulled out much of the thesaurus entry for positive adjectives - easy, intuitive, fresh, responsive, enchanted, better, improved, streamlined.
Andrew | 08.10.20 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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David, I totally agree -- blogging on WordPress has just become much more difficult. For one small irritation, HTML coding works in the blog text but not in the comments.
Peter Cameron | Homepage | 08.10.20 - 9:15 a.m. | #
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David & Peter -- WordPress still has a revert to Classic Editor button, which I'm using.
Charles | Homepage | 08.10.20 - 9:29 a.m. | #
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If you are self-hosting Wordpress, you can disable Gutenberg by installing the Classic Editor plug-in.
Regarding Blogger - the spellcheck works in Chrome but not Firefox (not checked other browsers), and the reason seems to be that, for some reason, the editor in Blogger is not actually an editable field any more, and is more a live webpage, so from Firefox's perspective, as it can't be edited, why spell check it.
I've hunted around a bit and not found a spellchecker for Firefox that will spellcheck a webpage.
ianVisits | 08.10.20 - 9:35 a.m. | #
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Would it work to copy and paste into Word for spellchecking?
I clicked over here hoping for a nice post on the end of the 747. Nothing is right in this current world.
Blue Witch | 08.10.20 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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Marquee's still make me happy.
R | 08.10.20 - 10:00 a.m. | #
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We'll cope. Go to it.
Milo | 08.10.20 - 10:24 a.m. | #
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Thanks for battling on. It's infuriating when a working thing gets 'improved' by removing features.
Not your fault, but a curious feature. On my phone I use a deprecated browser that reflows the text so I can have a large font without the ends of the lines disappearing. It now double spaces your prose, which it didn't do previously.
I'll tolerate it, just as I tolerate it not coping well with text wrapped around embedded pictures.
mikeS | 08.10.20 - 11:57 a.m. | #
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Interesting to see the first commenter using ‘millennial’ to mean youngster.
dg writes: That's not what they said.
My students use millennial to mean old fogey, as in ‘millennials always complain that teens spend too much time on social media.’
Alan | 08.10.20 - 12:03 p.m. | #
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Amazing how often with technology “new” means “worse”, as things that work perfectly well are ditched for often flashy changes, apparently just because a programmer somewhere was bored.
Labourer | 08.10.20 - 12:21 p.m. | #
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On the plus side, when I now share a DG post on Farcebook, the preview that's automatically generated now contains something of the post: an image from the post rather than that of the Blog as a whole, and the first frag of text from it. It still misses the post's title though. It's all dependant on the meta-data I think.
RogerTCB | 08.10.20 - 2:07 p.m. | #
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Another upvote here for the use of a marquee.
The first bit of coding I ever played with was the marquee tag.
And I've barely touched HTML since, wrongly deciding at the time I wouldn't need to bother.
In fairness, I was 10 years old.
E | 08.10.20 - 3:51 p.m. | #
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I've also now accidentally posted a future post without realising it (and had to unpost it).
I shall have to be more careful.
My retrospective apologies.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.10.20 - 4:33 p.m. | #
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Labourer - From what I've heard it's more often that the manager or someone higher-up wants a new version with all the latest tech buzzwords they don't understand.
anon | 08.10.20 - 4:42 p.m. | #
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It is not only the changes themselves that can be frustrating. Last year, Wordpress sicked a new way of working on us but the instructions on how to do things the new way were inadequate/non-existent/unfindable. So posts written never got published because, by the time I had sorted them out, they were very stale news indeed.
The frustrating thing is, now I have worked out how to use it, I actually greatly prefer it. But oh was the learning curve needlessly painful.
Pedantic of Purley | 08.10.20 - 6:00 p.m. | #
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My guess is, the constantly changing formats etc are part of a strategy to get serious blogger's to buy a version that is of their preference sometime in the future. Microsoft have pushed this scam re their 'software', though, how many have realised it I don't know.
B | 08.10.20 - 7:25 p.m. | #
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I am assuming that marquee must have a meaning other than a large tent.
kev | 08.10.20 - 9:09 p.m. | #
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That rolling banner is getting on my nerves. Can I switch it off?
popartist | 08.10.20 - 10:46 p.m. | #
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I'm late to this party.
Where does one find the special html editing button? When I click to edit in html all I see is a solid block of text in various hues.
One day I hope a programmer walks into a showroom to buy a new car, and is told " we've stuck the brake pedal in the boot, but don't worry, you'll get used to it"
Simon | 09.10.20 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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First button top left, which looks like < >
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.10.20 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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Interesting...
I usually write in compose mode and then correct layout in html mode. If I click the < > I just get Google's "formatted" html which makes no sense to me. It does mean there will be random blank lines in my posts, because that's what google seems best at
Simon | 09.10.20 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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I'm trying to work out why my posts now have an extra blank line at the end.
before 8th October - no blank line
after 8th October - always a blank line
Nothing in my code has changed, and the source code for the published posts is identical.
The closest I've come to working it out is that the RSS feed for today's post now includes a gap above the final line of text.
But there isn't an extra space or character lurking on the end.
I'm still peeved, and baffled.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.10.20 - 9:52 a.m. | #
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I didn't like the mobile-friendly tiles because I have a laptop. I didn't like the much-increased spacing because I prefer to see 'more' rather than 'bigger'.
Exactly this.
Facebook have been doing the same. Big chunky text that would look more in place in an infant school. Thankfully there seems to be a 'switch back to classic Facebook' link in one of the groups I belong to!
It only lasts for 48 hours but I'll take what I can, while I still can!
Cornish Cockney | 09.10.20 - 10:41 a.m. | #
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Yay, I've worked out what was causing the mysterious extra blank line (and managed to remove it).
The issue was using <p> for a new paragraph. Even one occurrence messed things up.
I have no idea why, but if I use two line breaks <br><br> instead then the extra line never appears.
The future isn't quite as suboptimal as it first appeared.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 09.10.20 - 8:38 p.m. | #
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Cornish Cockney; the 'revert to Classic Facebook' was available to me as the founder/admin of a FB group, but it didn't last, I had to re-apply to'switch back' every few days.
I've now used RevertSite, I don't understand the technical details but it should last till FB next changes everything. So do try that.
amber | 10.10.20 - 9:23 a.m. | #
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