It’s gone quiet again…

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Sue Vincent

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According to the number of notifications not currently stuffing my inbox to the brim as I would usually expect, I have to assume that either a) everyone has emigrated off-planet in case the calculations about the asteroid are wrong, b) Halloween came early, opening a portal that swallowed the blogosphere and leaving me and just a handful of others across the globe cheerfully tapping away or c) WordPress are up to something again.

Having nipped in to check all my notifications were still ‘live’… in theory at least… and checked the spam and trash folders in case of an email glitch, I have no idea why I am not seeing the blogs I follow except through the Reader… the one thing that reassures me that scenarios ‘a’ and ‘b’ are not too much of a worry.

So please excuse me if I appear to have gone silent as I seethe quietly from the relative obscurity of my PC.

And if anyone knows what is going on around here this time, I’ll be hiding under the table in a hard hat waiting for the bombshell of ‘new and improved’ Beep Beep Bopping….

 

 

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About Sue Vincent

Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sueย  passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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78 Responses to It’s gone quiet again…

  1. Mary Kendall's avatar Mary Kendall says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:06

    I’m having a similar problem. It must be the full moon this week or Word Press. ๐Ÿ™‚

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  2. edmooneyphotography's avatar edmooneyphotography says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:18

    Everyone must be in hiding for fear of all the nasty Ghouls that are about to be let loose this weekend?

    And I dont mean the children either ๐Ÿ™‚

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  3. TanGental's avatar TanGental says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:22

    I noticed a week ago that the number of daily views and visitors dropped; they have been fairly consistent from April thru mid September and then dropped so this month they are down by about a third. No idea why..

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  4. Solveig's avatar Solveig says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:26

    Is don’t receive email notifications because my mailbox would burst. But even the reader cannot be deemed reliable at all times…

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  5. Richard Ankers's avatar Richard Ankers says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:31

    Is there anybody there?????

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  6. vanbytheriver's avatar vanbytheriver says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:38

    Hello….hello ????? โ˜บ

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    • Sue Vincent's avatar Sue Vincent says:
      October 30, 2015 at 14:39

      *waves sepulchral sheet…*

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      • Darcy's avatar Darcy says:
        October 30, 2015 at 16:36

        First person I know who can casually use “sepulchral” in a sentence ๐Ÿ™‚ I am getting your email notifications. Maybe it’s mass hysteria…oops I mean burnout… with excploding email making brains explode and everyone shutting down synchronistically? I’m feeling completely overloaded and want to hide away from all electronics for a while (so what, may you ask, am I doing typing happily away on here? Busted….) ๐Ÿ™‚

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  7. Chris The Story Reading Ape's avatar The Story Reading Ape says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:41

    Although I’m still getting lots of email notifications (I don’t use the Reader) they DO seem to be down in number somewhat Sue…
    Maybe WP will be replacing the Beep Beep Bop with a MOAN WAIL BOOO for Halloween… ๐Ÿ˜€

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  8. Marilyn Armstrong's avatar Marilyn Armstrong says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:45

    I thought it was just ME. I had one great day … then a couple of good days, then it fell through the floor and has stayed there. I think it’s WP messing around with the reader and losing our followers. I get fewer than have the notifications I was getting a few months ago … and since I don’t track all my followers … well. I’m assuming that most of them have NOT gone off-planet or on vacation, though a few are away. Most of us are still here. Every time WP decided to “fix” something that ain’t broke, suddenly, there’s no one there. But I’m here. Always, it would seem. Forever, I hope.

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    • Sue Vincent's avatar Sue Vincent says:
      October 30, 2015 at 14:58

      Having checked this weeks figures against others, they do seem poor in comparison, but I’d say I’m getting about 10% of my usual notifications, so if that is a global problem, no wonder figures are low.

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  9. Allie P.'s avatar Allie P. says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:51

    My reader has gotten selective with its content recently as well, but guess what, you made the cut!

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  10. Noelle Granger's avatar Noelle Granger says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:56

    I’m still getting your posts, Sue. Have no idea if everyone is seeing mine, WP seems to have been having problems lately.

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  11. trentpmcd's avatar trentpmcd says:
    October 30, 2015 at 14:59

    You mean you missed the portal when it opened? Poor you to be left behind. I have to tell you that life in this new universe is going to be great…

    I’m glad I’m not the only one that sees these types of WP glitches! I haven’t had one in a while, but they can be very irritating.

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    • Sue Vincent's avatar Sue Vincent says:
      October 30, 2015 at 15:07

      I have a skeleton key to the portal. Only works on Halloween though ๐Ÿ˜‰

      It seems to be endemic. I know WP is by far the best platform all round, but when it wobbles, it can become quite uncomfortable for a while…

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  12. Judy E Martin's avatar edwinasepisodes says:
    October 30, 2015 at 15:06

    I think there are gremlins in the words at WP again!

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  13. Cathy's avatar Cathy says:
    October 30, 2015 at 15:35

    I think WordPress are having some glitches. I was locked out of my blog for a couple of days, now the share numbers arenโ€™t showing and I canโ€™t see any themes, just empty boxes :/

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  14. ladymeritaten's avatar ladymeritaten says:
    October 30, 2015 at 15:35

    I just posted the other day finally!

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  15. shั”rrรญั” dั” vฮฑlั”rรญฮฑ's avatar ั•ะฝั”ััฮนั” โˆ‚ั” ฮฝฮฑโ„“ั”ัฮนฮฑ says:
    October 30, 2015 at 16:00

    I have the same problem a couple of time when I cannot see notifications coming, except in the Reader. Many times that I’ve not seen notifications appearing even if I do FOLLOW you … WP having some glitches again … ๐Ÿ˜›

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  16. Darren Scanlon's avatar Darren Scanlon says:
    October 30, 2015 at 16:56

    I bloody hate that “beep beep bop…” thingy…it doesn’t bloody work anyway and I always opt for the original method which never fails me!

    By the way… hello…I’m still here…I’ve not seen any flashes in the sky…

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  17. C.E.Robinson's avatar C.E.Robinson says:
    October 30, 2015 at 17:17

    Sue, I’m here! Getting all your posts! Have not had WP problems, but post infrequently. The usual followers come around. That’s good enough right now. Can understand the worry if marketing books and stats drop! Chryssa

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  18. Jim's avatar Jim says:
    October 30, 2015 at 17:53

    I suspect it’s the full moon.

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  19. Phoenix Rainez's avatar Phoenix Rainez says:
    October 30, 2015 at 17:59

    Hi Sue I’m still here and yes getting your notifications somewhere amongst the 1000 other emails I am trying to keep up with while trying to read and review 4 books I promised to do soonest, while trying to edit my next novel and attempting to complete 8 new course required for my new job. Meantime I have a tone of Twitter comments and FB comments to respond to ohhhh (sighs) where does one find the time to do all this and still have family time. Drowning a little here, but I am still here even if its only just to read whenever a minute is spare.

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  20. The Hopeful Herbalist's avatar The Hopeful Herbalist says:
    October 30, 2015 at 20:48

    ๐Ÿ˜€ I just assumed my numbers slumped because I’m not writing as much ( and the other where I accidentally unfollow when fighting my computer ๐Ÿ˜ฆ )

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  21. Poli Impelli's avatar Poli Impelli says:
    October 30, 2015 at 22:41

    Hi, Sue! Iโ€™m still getting your posts. I receive email notifications every Friday, and I get like 35 emails telling me : “hey, Iยดm here!” I havenยดt had any problems, yet ;-). Still following you

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    • Sue Vincent's avatar Sue Vincent says:
      October 30, 2015 at 23:04

      Thanks for letting me know! I’m more concerned about the notifications I am not getting for the blogs I follow… instant, daily and weekly chunks of them… and I am getting very few at the moment.

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  22. Eliza Waters's avatar Eliza Waters says:
    October 31, 2015 at 00:06

    Well, the veil is thin, so perhapsโ€ฆ. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  23. Tessa's avatar Tessa says:
    October 31, 2015 at 03:52

    I have had no emails for about a week now. Only the ones from the self-hosters. No free wordpress emails coming through and since I was up to 4000 behind and now can read the few in the reader something is definitely wrong.

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  24. alibaliwalker's avatar Ali Isaac says:
    October 31, 2015 at 09:48

    Oh no! What’s going on this time? This happens to everyone at different times, yet there seems no explanation for it! Did you get it fixed yet? All my weekly ones should be coming through tomorrow, so we’ll see. Come to think of it, I dont think I saw all of the blogs I follow last Sunday; I assumed some of them didnt post last week, but perhaps not. Perhaps its wp. Maybe the change of clocks confused the system last week.

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  25. Hugh W. Roberts's avatar Hugh's Views and News says:
    October 31, 2015 at 12:02

    Well you may recall the recent problems I’d been having with not even being able to open my own blog’s dashboard but that problem seems to have gone away now, Sue. Can’t say I’ve seen a decline in the number of notifications I am getting from WordPress but as we know they are always doing updates or trying to fix things that we all love and are not broken. Maybe after the trick or treaters have gone things will settle down again?

    When I contacted the Happiness engineers at WordPresss they were very helpful so maybe this is a case for them?

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    • Sue Vincent's avatar Sue Vincent says:
      October 31, 2015 at 13:13

      It isn’t the first time it has happened… last time we were gifted with the wonderful new editor (yes, that is vague trace of sarcasm there…) SO I’ll give it a day or two to see if it settles.

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  26. Peter Wells aka Countingducks's avatar Peter Wells aka Countingducks says:
    October 31, 2015 at 12:48

    I have been away on a walking holiday, and have only returned to the Blogosphere this morning. Feeling nicely refreshed and raring to write ๐Ÿ™‚

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  27. macjam47's avatar macjam47 says:
    October 31, 2015 at 18:45

    It seems some days I have an overload of notifications, and others just a few. I’ve been rather sporadic myself, and didn’t pay a lot of attention to the randomness of the notifications.

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  28. Suzanne Joshi's avatar Suzanne Joshi says:
    November 2, 2015 at 13:21

    Strange things do happen as though there’s a ghost in the computer, or maybe just in the WordPress program. O_o

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