charles schulz knew the effectiveness of taking things into one’s own hands
Across the Bored woke up on the right side of the bed, had a pleasant breakfast and accomplished a few chores before getting down to some serious blogging this holiday morning when, once again, our temper was set off by a small but annoying discovery.
WP has seen fit to remove blog names from the new posts in the reader…. has anyone else noticed this or is only our monitor plagued with an appalling lack of identification under the tags and photos? Is this not just a tad insulting to those who spent some considerable amount of time “Choosing the Perfect Blog Name” or paying good money annually for a dedicated domain? If we wanted to be anonymous we wouldn’t be blogging, we would live in some remote location with no wi-fi and carve our memoirs onto a log. Days were when we could workaround the dreaded “403 Forbidden” and even put up with unexpected cut-outs and missing posts but this Big Brotheresque move really sucks.
Soon we will just have barcodes….
ACROSS THE BORED 
I noticed this with two Blogs on the reader yesterday but not all.. I wonder why? Maybe its just an evolution again of something new to come?
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Imagine if this was the way other businesses were run – let’s just partially fix this without any concern for who is footing the bill… oh, I forgot, that’s called “the government”….
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BiG GOV…UGHHHH !
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I may be missing something here, but in my reader it still says ‘Across the Bored’ at the end of the post summary. Did it appear elsewhere before?
Jude ( not very experienced in the blogosphere)
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I (was) getting a lovely string of tags across the top, a photo beneath, a few lines from the beginning of the post below that then the like and reblog widgets – no name no nothing – it has since been “fixed”.
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Ah, you have to love technology :)
We’re having problems with our telephone line and consequently broadband access – up and down all day long, resetting the router, resetting my laptop’s Wi-Fi adapter. It’s so painful I have taken up reading again :)
Glad your problem is ‘fixed’
Jude xx
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Sometimes I think it was easier pre-internet….
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I still have blog names on posts in my Reader. My problem is that the Freshly Pressed page only shows 6 or 8 posts at a time. Maybe we need to reboot our computers?
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I was having a similar problem at one point with the reader on my ipad. I can’t tell you how many times I cleared the cache, removed cookies, deleted the history and reset my browsers in an attempt to get some sort of continuity…. Sometimes the only way to solve it is to vent!
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I totally understand the need to vent. I restarted my computer and the FP’d page resumed it’s normal behavior.
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Makes you wonder doesn’t it…
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Do you know what that little blue slider on the right of the “xx” liked this gravatars under the post is?
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I am lost— is this slider on your blog or mine?
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It’s on mine – not on the mobile iphone or ipad versions but on my laptop… Don’t know whether they appear on a monitor as I don’t have access to one at the moment, most odd! Do you have them on your site?
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Now they are gone… I give up….
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I do not have the slider that you describe. I am using Firefox as my Mac browser, what are you using?
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Safari or Chrome although it does seem to have disappeared today – I should take a snapshot if it reappears.
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I would be interested in seeing it, if only for future reference. You have my personal email if you want to pass it on.
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Will do – I too would like to get to the bottom of this…
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Be careful what you wish for…
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It’s a long list!
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They have shrunk our domain names to micro script.
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I’ve just gone back into the reader and noticed this – I must be old-fashioned because I think that the blog name is more important than the tags….
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I mentioned this in the idea forum on wordpress support, no-one else seems to care!
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There seems to be a general disinterest in issues like this and it does beg the question why people seem so ready to accept arbitrary changes foisted upon them – this is indicative of the larger apathy that comes from living in a first-world democracy…
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