We now have a tech guy who may be able to fix the issues readers are having with this site. If you don’t mind (you’ve probably done this before), please recount in the comments the problems you’ve had reading or posting on this site. We’ll do our best to try to fix them.
Thanks!
It’s not a problem, but an annoyance of sorts. Every time I come to your site, a pop-up tells me to subscribe, or click the Continue Reading, which is what I do.
It is a problem. I hate popups on sites like this. I put in bad emails every time so they get added to the mailing list. The nag once would be ok, but every time I go to the site is terrible.
Pop up to subscribe or continue reading is a problem. When I want to read comments it takes me to top of the post and I must scroll down again.
Log in to leave a reply, perhaps for this post only takes me to Google and so on.
Agreed. Really annoying.
Also, I seem to be logged out of WordPress with no idea what my password is (my problem!) but with the comment icon requiring either WordPress, Faeces book, or an email – but when I fill in the email the comment does not appear [Microsoft Edge]…
I am getting the same message even though I am a long time subscriber and get my emailed posts every day.
Me too. Long time subscriber (natch). The pop up is a giant, time consuming nuisance and extremely slow to disappear after i click “continue reading”. Often have to click a half dozen times. I use safari both on ipad and iphone.
Same here. The pop up interferes with the readability of all the excellent comments.
Same here.
Me, too. And the message doesn’t go away until I click (tap) the Continue link several times. And even then, the page reloads completely and navigates back to the top when I’m inevitably at the bottom to enter a comment.
Thank you for looking into this
Right. It is annoying. It takes a while to get rid of it. The page then reloads. Also, I’ve “subscribed” for years via RSS, both posts and comments. I follow over 100 sites via RSS. I don’t want email notification for every post, much less every comment. Also, since around the same time, the site in general has been markedly slower.
Right. It is annoying. It takes a while to get rid of it. The page then reloads. Also, I’ve “subscribed” for years via RSS, both posts and comments. I follow over 100 sites via RSS. I don’t want email notification for every post, much less every comment. Also, since around the same time, the site in general has been markedly slower.
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What I find annoying about that pop-up is that I am redirected to the beginning of the post after clicking continue reading. Especially with Hili posts that can be quite a task.
Hmm, forgot this after the first sentence: And then I have to go back to where I was.
Right. It is annoying. It takes a while to get rid of it. The page then reloads. Also, I’ve “subscribed” for years via RSS, both posts and comments. I follow over 100 sites via RSS. I don’t want email notification for every post, much less every comment. Also, since around the same time, the site in general has been markedly slower.
same here. This started fairly recently
Ditto. Very annoying.
Every time I click next or previous page!!!!!
Me – six or seven. I’ve lost count. Very annoying.
It also looks as if the editor has stopped recognising the “enter” key as a “new paragraph” mark, and that’s new.
The site also forgets my ID cookies too, it seems – but that may be me tightening down (again) on the information I allow websites to write to my hard drives.
This has been happening to me too over the last few weeks.
Hello – in haste:
the subscribe-to-post function would be nice.
Yes, this function stopped working many months ago. While posting, I requested receiving emails of all posts. I don’t have time to keep checking back to read other posts.
After reading a post, like this one and clicking on comments a subscribe window come up. This happens all the time. I usually just hit “continue reading” and it goes back to the top of the post so you must scroll down to the comments. It is just kind of a pain in the ass you don’t need. After adding a comment you must enter the email and name every time. This has always been required but it already knows my name and email. Very odd.
I just get “Write a comment” and a picture of my WordPress avatar.
Most of the time, I write the comment and it disappears for a few minutes as if it is in the moderation queue.
I haven’t been able to comment at all for a week or so, and I have not received any comments for about a year🙈
A stop-gap is to go directly to the dedicated web page on the WordPress site. https://wordpress.com/read/feeds/106437183
I have an account (though no bl*g), and for me it autoloads my credentials and lets me comment. The problems likely occur when viewing on your current bookmarked web page.
That link leads me to a page gutted by my NoScript, which asks me if I want to accept “analytics” cookies (which I don’t) in addition to “required” cookies (which I accept, reluctantly).
If a cookie (subsidiary page, font resource, etc) is “required”, call it that ; don’t try to hide it’s dark under a bushel by moving it to “analytics” or where ever.
And my third log-in of the thread.
I’ve seen you post “Testing” a couple days times recently, Merilee (including below today’s Hili).
I think that a comment from you, two-several years ago, is the last memory WP has of a response to any of my comments.
And for the second time in this thread, the “enter” key is not giving me a “new paragraph”, and I have to sign in again.
…. And now, I get an “enter”->”new line” key in the “edit” box
But, last comment
I think the occasional confusion between replying to a commenter’s previous post and adding a new, separate post might be clearer if the word “reply” were not used for both. Perhaps if “Leave a Reply” was changed to “Leave a New Comment” fewer posts would be misplaced. But I don’t know if this is an easy change in WordPress.
And I’m still getting the “subscribe” popup even though I’ve repeatedly subscribed via email.
And, I don’t get an opportunity to edit my post.
When replying, I’m asked for my name. I wish it were clear whether this means my full name, as Jerry prefers, or my screen name, which I prefer.
Lots of people don’t want to build up an online presence, about their views, etc. under their real name. It’s a privacy issue, and the info might be used in ways you don’t want.
And there’s no going back, once you do put info about yourself online under your real name.
“NEVER post online under your real name” was a rule I learned back in the early ’90s (before I got a landline, let alone a modem). No, I never did trust the concept of “FarceBook”.
… and the £enter-new line” has gone again, and my 4th log-in of this thread.
The “Name” field is that name you wish to be known by for that particular comment — “Peter N” in my case.
Ditto on the popup. Another annoying aspect of it is that it appears after I’ve been reading and scrolling a bit, and after I dismiss it with the “Continue reading” link, the window jumps back up to the top of the page, so I have to scroll back down to find where I was at when it so rudely interrupted.
I get the pop-up, but it disappears when I click on the screen (outside of the pop-up box) and I stay in the same place in the post that I had already reached.
I will have to try that. Perhaps the pop-up is put in the back? Fine with me.
Me too. I click away to cancel.
I feel left out. Haven’t really had any problems.
Not a big deal, as one click removes the pop-up asking me to subscribe.
It would really help to be able to edit one’s comments.
And yes, the popup is a bit of unnecessary noise.
What others said about the pop-up. Like most, that occurs on every post.
But I would add that the login area has changed its appearance, and this new design won’t just autoload my email and name like it used to. I have to click on the Email line and choose an email. Then I click on the Name line and choose to have it load my name. So several clicks now when it used to be zero clicks.
On my computer, exactly the same inconvenient change occurred a week or two ago. The previous login design, with its autoloading of email and name, was better. [The new comment page also has a mysterious limitation on use of the space bar.]
I have both these problems. Pop-up and “log in to leave a reply” where I have to click on the email icon every time I want to reply whether to another comment or a stand alone comment.
Every .single .time . I write a comment I now have to “Log in to leave a reply.” This means a drop down menu, then type in my email address, then type in my nym. It’s tedious. I’ve no idea why the site fails to recognize me.
Also the pop up.
And the edit function is seldom and far between.
Don’t know if this is possible, but I still miss the little icon (WordPress?) that allowed me to see if anyone had replied to something I’d written, and would love to see it return.
If you’re logged into WordPress, it will autofill for you.
Thanks, I’m trying that now. Had to reset a bunch of stuff but it looks like it may work.
(I’m on an iPad, if that helps.)
I complained perhaps 6 months ago that the text for the WEIT posting did not fit on my computer screen … that I would have to slide back and forth to the right and then the left to follow the text. And the pictures were HUGE! I got no response so over time I just quit looking at the postings unless the first topic interested me. Today, however, the entire text fits in my screen, so it appears to me that one problem … my problem … has been fixed. Thank you.
That just sounds like your browser was zoomed in to the web page. Mine, Firefox, shows the magnification factor in a little box next to the address bar, and it remembers where you set it the last time you visited the page (mine is at 130%). The easy way to change that is hold the CTL key and roll your mouse wheel forward and back until you like what you see; the medium way is to hold CTL and press “+” or “-“, and the hard way is to click “view” at the top of the browser window, then “zoom”, then select whether you wish to increment it one notch larger or smaller.
I haven’t had any technical issues. Whether or not one likes it, the pop clearly is a function not a technical error of the site.
I prefer reading at the website, and would not email subscribe.
The option to be alerted via email when someone responds to a comment I’ve made disappeared many months ago. So I rarely comment anymore.
Yes, it would be nice to have such a feature. Otherwise people just flit on to the next post, and don’t have discussions stimulated by older posts.
I always get a “Continue Reading” pop up. I’m asked to supply my email address, which I’ve done and then have clicked on “Continue Reading,” but I recently learned that just clicking on “Continue Reading” will do the trick. And, yes, for this message window the pop up popped up before I wrote this message. Also, I use the Firefox browser, if that helps any.
For many months now, I haven’t been able to use my real email address. When I did, my comment would never show up. So I now use a fake email and it gets through. Every once in a while (I’ll do it after posting this) I’ll test with my real email address, but it never shows.
It would help to have a feature where the reader can get an email if someone replies to a comment.
You might have taken away that feature in order to avoid two people getting into a repetitious (and often silly) argument.
But, that could be accomplished by adding a time delay – several hours or so – to sending the notification email. That would give arguers time to cool down and disengage.
I view the emails in Microsoft Outlook on a desktop computer. It used to be that the body of text would auto-adjust to the size of the window in Outlook like it’s supposed to, but for quite some time now it doesn’t, so I have to maximize the screen, and even then it sometimes doesn’t fit. Please fix this highly annoying bug.
Ditto to all the above – an now, I am unable to comment without signing in to FB or some other app.
Ditto to all the above, including a new one – have to log in to make a comment.
And as is obvious from the double comment – it’ confusing! 🙂
The following article is worth reading. It explains how WordPress might be monetizing your email address.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/25/technology/personaltech/email-address-digital-tracking.html
An excerpt:
Whenever a website requires an email address to read beyond an introductory morsel, I always decide I can live without subscribing, and move on.
It is not my imputation that WordPress indulges in this practice.
They want money to see the article! Of course… again having to re-enter my email etc to comment…
It has already been covered but every time you want to comment you get the pop up asking to register your email even though it has already been done and you need to log in with wordpress facebook or email every time.
Maybe there’ll be duplicate comments from me. From time to time I’ve exerienced that they just don’t go through (seems a general WordPress problem, as I’ve seen it from time to time on almost all WordPress sites I comment on). Sometimes they show up later, sometimes not. No way to know. And since if they show up later it might be several minutes, the only practical solution is to submit a few times and hope that one gets through.
While I’m a it, there is another problem which I’ve seen ONLY at this site. (Remember, I comment on several blogs, including several WordPress sites): my information is not saved (even when there used to be—it’s gone now—a checkbox intended for that) and I have to re-enter it every time. Only on this site.
And the message threading has broken again – this is in reply to “grasshopper” @ 22.
“You”, the average NYT reader, may hand it over without much thought. Not being an NYT reader at all, and very likely not much like their average reader, I’ve never handed my email address over without thought. Also I keep several email addresses as “disposables”, where the only activity is to occasionally log in (in a private browser window, flag all messages as “spam”, then delete everything un-read.
Plus, of course the universal bans on running javascript, storing cookies, or cross-linking to other websites (with advertising ones black-listed) … I try to make advertising as difficult as possible for them.
Fifth (sixth?) log-in on this thread, and still I’m being blocked from entering any of the normal “new line” or “carriage return” characters. Though in the “edit post” edit box, “carriage return” and “new line” characters are accepted – so the site’s code is calling different code blocks for different tasks.
Ditto the pop-up.
Ditto having to sign in every damn time now.
And also Ditto to the Inspector about para breaks. Very irritating since sometimes I want to change where I put one, and if you can’t even see where you put one…
At present this is headed to full FUBAR status.
I have the same (relatively recent) issue of being asked to subscribe in every time I access the site.
A longer term issue is not getting emails informing me of further answers after I tick the box asking for them.
Oh, and now I have to log in to leave a reply, damn
I have exactly the same issues as Christine Marie Janis in #27. The popup is only mildly annoying, but it would be nice if the notification feature could be made to work reliably – it used to work for me, but then stopped, and unsubscribing and re-subscribing didn’t work.
I no longer get new comments to a post when I select it.
I also get the subscribe pop up every time I open a post.
After my comment on the l this post I was removed completely from the mailing list. I guess constructive criticism is not appreciated.
I have no record of any comment you ever made, and you were not being moderated. Before you start throwing out accusations, why don’t you ask or email?
Instead, you become both accusatory and uncivil. Had you written politely, I would have said that no comment of yours has been received. But now you ARE gone. You are hoist with your own petard!