Is nobody posting
Across the whole land?
Did the sky just fall in?
Is the alphabet banned?
I’m completely mystified,
Puzzled I am…
I’ve checked all my settings
And been through the spam…
But no-one is posting.
I started to fidget,
And rooted around
Till I’d checked every widget
The pages are empty,
There’s no-one in sight…
Which is very unusual
This time of night.
But only one answer
Makes sense to my brain…
The WordPress opressors
Are playing again…
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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. Sue passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Hope you get this message! I must admit, I haven’t been posting lately – too busy writing. I never know how people can do both.
Love your witty rhyme! 🙂
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It seems to have gone very, very quiet today on all fronts, Annabelle. It always worries me what the Happines Engineers might be engineering for our delectation when that happens 😉
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I know what you mean!
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😦
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Same thing is happening with me. Love your poem😃
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Thanks 🙂 Sorry to hear that, but it confirms my worst suspicions… 😉
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I’ve put out several posts, but not seeing the usual influx of readers or notifications from other blogs Sue.
It’s been like that for several weeks now so goodness knows what hare-brained ideas (I mean – FANTASTIC INNOVATIONS) are being scraped from the bottom of the ideas barrel (I mean – BEING PREPARED) to make like more interestingly difficult (I mean EASIER?) for us poor suckers (I mean – VALUED BLOGGERS) 😱😘
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Yep, that about says it all, Chris 🙂 It’s been pretty quiet around here too for a while, but today is the quietest.. apart from when They randomly click that little button in settings that then tells me ‘you have turned off all email notofiations’… They seem to like doing that lately…
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I’ve just checked mine, but it’s still set at immediate email 😐
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So is mine today, though they reset it twice yesterday…
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😱😡👹😈
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Do we have a smiley that growls? 😉
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🤔🙄😳😤😤😤
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😀
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I’ve noticed its quiet round the WP blogosphere lately, too. Life…sigh.
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They have to be playing again, Morgan… goodness knows what else they’ll spring on us this year!
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lol, IT people….
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Intelligent Torturers…
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People i follow are no longer showing in reader 😯😕
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I’m getting that too though most of those I follow I get by email.. the Reader is a pain and misses too much.
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😯😕
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In the last two or three weeks I’ve had a few days like that – very few posts in the Reade and almost no views. I only receive emails for about 1/50th of the blogs i follow, yet every day for those three weeks i will get an e-mail from at least one blog and not see the post in the Reader. WP is planning some major “upgrade” again…..
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Same here, Trent… and it is what they are up to that worries me…
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I hadn’t noticed but having had a look see at the reader I realise some have been eaten. Like you the reader is a last resort. Oh and as ever the poem hits a very sweet spot
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All sorts of strange lacunae around here lately… I dread to think what they are up to now…
Thanks, Geoff.
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Well, I have been away on a lovely holiday – but I don’t think that can have caused such havoc in the blogging world!
I’m never goign to catch up with all the posts I’ve missed so starting from scratch tomorrow.
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Glad to have you back, Mary… but hope the islands were kind to you and gave you sunshine 🙂
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It was bliss – sunshine every day, lots of lovely food, wine, walking, lazing about reading and sunshine every day. Did I mention the sunshine already? Haven’t seen it since we came home.
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Sounds glorious! Just what you need to recharge the batteries 🙂
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I think you are right. It was completely dead last night and now they pages look different. Again. They were probably updating (????) the software. Keeping us on our toes. I got almost no hits all through the night and it’s still very slow today.
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I thought things were looking different too, but wondered if it was just imagination… or looking for trouble. Still waay too quiet…
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Today I am trying to catch up on posts in Reader but now that you mention it I have not seen as many posts via my e-mail.
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Even the Reader seems to be missing a lot of posts…
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I have fallen behind in the online world as I try to keep up with the real one. And am trying to pretend (in the online world) that all is okay. Is this what we all do to some extent?
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We probably do… but I am getting increasingly frustrated with what is going on in here.
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Thank you for the wonderful poem Sue, it made me laugh and feel so not alone. I thought it was just me. 😉
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Apparently not, Colleen… it seems as if everyone is feeling it.
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Like you, I believe something is amiss in the minds of WP …..
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That’s the understatement of the year, Colleen 😉
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Windows anniversary update!!!! It almost trashed my laptop after forcing me offline for days whilst it tried to download it – I didn’t know so I cut the connection in disgust at the “slow” connection that wasn’t….so took a while to get the update on…and installed….and then even longer to get the laptop rescued from near death and out of intensive care so no online or anything else! All functionality was failing!!! Paws crossed it’s out of the woods now 🙂
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Oh goodness, how awful! I do hope it is all resoved and working now!
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Thankfully yes! Took several days and a batch of further updates to get back up and running normally but has been fine so far…apart from a strange unannounced switch off for no reason yesterday…little click then all shut down in a second. Battery was still 79% charged so very inexplicable. No warnings, nothing. Okay on the mains so paws crossed it doesn’t happen again! 🙂
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Mine does that several times a day regardless…
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And there was me thinking it was the time of year 😮 The wicked witching time of evil ghostly computer spirits working to create havoc and destruction! Obviously there’s something much more sinister going on! 😉😱😊
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A control bid from the machines… 🙂
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Yup😀and there’s a really horrible ghoul sitting somewhere inside them giving all the disruptive commands!😆
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That’s it…we need to exorcise 😉
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Absolutely! 😀 That usually means throwing the computer out the window doesn’t it? From a great height preferably! 😉
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I find just the threat of doing so often helps 😉
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😁 It can work wonders in so many different ways! 😉
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I agree. Sledge-hammers have a similar effect 😉
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Oh yes!!😁Sledgehammers are heaven on Earth when it comes to dealing with these matters 😂 There’s something incredibly satisfying about the swing…And the almighty crunching shattering sound that warms the cockles of the heart 🙃
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Very tempting this morning… 😉
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I thought about tossing mine in the bath….All day while I’m at work…water board it into something resembling submission 😁
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The possibilities are endless…;)
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Exploding them in the microwave isn’t a bad option either 🙄😀
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I need a bigger microwave… 😉
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It’ll be just fine if you smash it in half with the sledge hammer first then microwave it! ☺
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Sounds like a plan…:)
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You read my mind. Just posted today after a dry spell!
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It seems to have been very quiet all round.
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I assumed that it was just a busy time of year for a lot of folks. I have cut back to just a few posts a week myself. As winter sets in here, it might just pick up a bit.
Or, it’s just WordPress. ☺ Love your poem.
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There are always new people coming in, old ones going quiet, busy periods… but the notifications usually balance themselves out globally. It’s just too quiet…
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I’ve been posting. Not much activity on yesterday’s. What the heck is going on???
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When I go to friends’ blogs, I see the posts. I just don’t get the notifications… and yes, yesterday was…appparently… VERY quiet all round. They are definitiely playing again.
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Gremlins!
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That explains it 😉
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Happened to me for the whole month of August. Then they came back as mysteriously as they left..
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Also, today and yesterday I have had far fewer views than normal.
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Today has been a bit better here, but still not enough notifications coming in.
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No… weird how that happens. Wp happiness engineers were away at a conference last week apparently… looks like they’ve come back all fired up to make changes behind the scenes. They’re probably tinkering again.
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That was what worried me…
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I can understand it being quiet in August with holidays… but it hit rock bottom yesterday.
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Well, I certainly hope you’ve seen an improvement today. 😊
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Much closer to normal, thank goodness!
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Reblogged this on Smorgasbord – Variety is the spice of life and commented:
Sue Vincent with a piece of verse that might well become our anthem as we find ourselves in spam folders, comments lost and wrangling new editing widgets…. Anybody like to put music to this.. I think it might be a hit….
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Thanks Sally 🙂
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Love it. Love it. I cringe each time I hear WP is up to playing. I haven’t been around much either so am lucky to visit and comment by the sounds of this. 🙂
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I’m dreading finding out the cause, Tess. I live in hopes that it is just routine manintenance 😉
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If I remember correctly, routine maintenance hasn’t always been routine… 😉
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No… and it has all slowed again today… 😦
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