It was odd. I look at this particular blogger’s page every day…and every day there is a reblog button. On every post. Except today. I clicked into the title, hoping that by going deeper, I would find what I was looking for. Nothing. I couldn’t understand it at all. There were, in fact, few of the usual options and I could not imagine what had prompted the blogger to make this particular piece unshareable. Or why I suddenly had to fill in a form to leave a comment. Or why, when the theme had not been changed, it should look so different.
They must, I decided, have been the victim of some online horror… trolls, ID theft, hackers… all sorts of scenarios began to roil around in my mind. I thought about my own online presence and its security and wondered if I ought to take the hint and tighten things up. I hoped my friend was okay. These things can be nasty and upsetting. Perhaps I should email to check?
In those few seconds, my reaction to the lack of a simple button was going a long way…and the possible causes and consequences were already starting to pile up in my mind and imagination. Until I realised what the problem was. Between clicking the link in the daily email and arriving at the site, somehow, I had been logged out of WordPress. There was nothing wrong with my friend’s page at all. What was wrong was how I was seeing it; as an ‘outsider’.
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Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
I use the old editing system from 2013, and I cannot stand the block editor. Recently, my WP editor has not allowed me to use the feature to change the color of words. I’ve written to the WP guru’s to ask why, and so far I’ve received no answer.
Those are the kinds of things that irritate me — the sudden loss of a particular feature without explanation.
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Justifying text… now no longer possible…and that really gets my goat. I know it is considered old fashioned, but I like tidy posts.
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Agreed.
I’m beginning to think that chiseling away the choices we used to have is an attempt on the part of wordpress to force us to use that terrible block editor.
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We will end up with it… but I wonder how many will give up and move elsewhere.
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I’ve had a blog since September 2012. Moving on would mean having to attract 7000 people to another site, and there’s no guarantee that the same problems wouldn’t happen.
It’s like being stuck in an alternate reality
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I know the feeling. I started here in 2011, maintain several blogs (and spend a fair bit doing so). It is beginning to feel like buying a loaf of bread and being told I would really prefer an hammer…
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I agree.
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That has been happening to me a lot. I get bumped out of WP multiple times a day. I’d like to think it’s something as simple as overloaded servers, but it might be worse.
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It hasn’t happened to me for ages, which is why it was so disconcerting.
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