tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24069595.post5097592247419027587..comments2024-03-27T04:17:20.550-07:00Comments on The Real Blogger Status: Get Into The New GUI, While There's TimeNitecruzrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08069634565746003311noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24069595.post-87185609625027908512012-04-25T19:18:58.589-07:002012-04-25T19:18:58.589-07:00However, it's got a few improvements too.
I&#...<i>However, it's got a few improvements too.</i><br /><br />I'm still trying to find a list of these 'improvements'. Even now, I haven't found anything in the flashy new UI that is actually new -- at least, nothing useful. Forcing me to follow a blog I don't want to follow, just because Google runs it is not an improvement in my book.seybernetxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00513982721559447458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24069595.post-77644419797758059982011-07-15T01:12:40.004-07:002011-07-15T01:12:40.004-07:00So now we are to blame for Blogger's poor prod...So now we are to blame for Blogger's poor product development and testing? I don't think so. <br /><br />I agree that it would be good to have users involved in the beta testing phase of software development. Getting free software testers and product reviewers is a great business model. But we are the vehicles for their ads, and it would be nice if they treated us with a little less contempt. It would be nice to know that Blogger actually gave a shit about what we think - and my sense is that they don't. Which is why I read this blog, yeah?<br /><br />Some of us just want a simple product that works, we have neither the time nor the skill to wrestle with a defective beta product. We just want to blog, we don't want to be unpaid software testers for the largest and most profitable computer giant on the planet. <br /><br />We used to have an interface that worked very well, with access to the HTML for the advanced students. I'd happily go back to the original, pre-Google, interface which to the best of my knowledge <i>did not have bugs</i>.<br /><br />Why do they not implement incremental changes, rather than these lurches which leave us puzzled at what we've lost and what doesn't work, and struggling to work out how to do what we've done for years?<br /><br />My model would be the Google home page which adds functionality from time to time, but has only had one major redesign since it launched, and that was simple enough. Do it well enough and you don't <i>need</i> to completely redesign it every 2 years.<br /><br />I've no sense that making comments on the Google notice boards makes any difference to what Google does to Blogger. Which again, is why I read this blog.<br /><br />Where I'd like to get involved is right at the beginning. With a statement of what they were trying to achieve with these improvements. That's where I'd like my voice to be heard, because these beta product roll-outs, just seem like tinkering for the hell of it - the great plague of all websites. Web designers have to keep redesigning websites, because that is all they do. But web users don't seem to be clamouring for a new interface, even when they would like new functionality. <br /><br />When they still have not fixed the bugs in the last releases why do they feel confident to redesign the interface? <br /><br />I could go on. But you're not interested, and they're not interested... so what's the point?Jayaravahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06815277098386812048noreply@blogger.com