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All that work, all those screenshots and animations, became obsolete.
In January, I confidently published a two-part
report on blog themes
that included this side note:
The Responsive themes do not support the "quick edit" tools, which let me edit posts and widgets directly from the blog itself. I find this very useful, especially given other recent changes to the blogger back end.
It took Google exactly four days to remove quick edit from Blogger (they've restored it, at least for now).
As part of a three-part tutorial about how people can follow your blog, I described Subscribe by Email on March 13.
As Google told us last week, it is removing subscribe-by-email in July.
Why do I even bother?
Also, what shall I write about next?
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I feel your pain! I write about Google Photos 🥺 Please don't give up Adam, we count on you for Blogger info.
ReplyDeleteI fear its only a matter of time until they just kill blogger entirely.
ReplyDeleteNo, killing off Blogger stuff is MY superpower.
DeleteThe one I think should be removed is a link to the video tutorials on the down-left side Blogger homepage. They are tutorials from 8 years ago.
ReplyDeleteI've been there too. But I've also done the reverse, where I decide to hold off writing a tutorial because I'm sure it will be changing soon and it actually never gets updated (or it's changed several years later).
ReplyDeleteI think it is helpful to share how products work right now. If and when it's changed, you can add a notice to your tutorials to let people know. I spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to do something on another platform, and it was helpful to find a blog post with a note that the feature I was looking for had been deprecated.
Peggy's wonderful blog emphasizes news of the digital week, where any change, good or bad, is just more grist for the mill. Not a bad approach!
DeleteThanks for everything Adam. I will get back to you if I learn something helpful. BTW, have you done a post on how to edit Blogger labels?
ReplyDeleteEarl, I have, as a matter of fact.
DeleteUnfortunately, the user interface has changed since then (story of this blog, apparently). But the basic steps have not.
If the thing you write about are killed after 4 - 5 days, then please, pretty please, write a blogpost on the obnoxious double line spacing on hitting ENTER without holding down SHIFT. I'd like to see this disappear!
ReplyDeleteHi Charlotte,
DeleteI have been thinking of writing about the unintuitive ways that the new Blogger handles paragraphing, but frankly I am not sure I understand it myself.
However, check out the difference between paragraph-style and normal-style paragraphs.
I sure do not understand it either. I know the difference ... ;) and I choose Normal at the beginning of every session. The only problem is, that Blogger does not know the difference and reverts to Paragraph-style whenever you - hit enter without shift - use formatting - insert a photo ... and a zillion other things known only to Blogger. At the end of each and every writing of a post, I go to HTMLediting and remowers all < p > and < /p > (sorry for spaces - not allowed without) -- exasperating.
DeleteYesterday I tried looking at the HTMLcoding behind the theme, but I did not understand enough of it to see if and where it could be changed. Maybe you're smarter?