Are you completely bloggled? Lots of us are apparently. WordPress changes things every day, or perhaps in the middle of the night, depending on which continent you live. Writing on your phone on a bus going over potholes is not the best way to do things on line, but I can read a blog such as Sally on Smorgasbord, the Like button works, I write a comment and it is published, probably with typos because of the rattly bus and Sally has answered before I get off the bus… Back at home on my trusty desk top with big television screen I write an erudite comment on an intelligent blog, WP asks me to log in, even though I am logged in. I do that and the comment disappears… I’m sure all the blogs I follow seem to work differently and of course we cannot se what our own blogs look like to others.
If I disappear into the clouds, it might not be WordPress’s fault. My sister is over from Australia and staying with me for a month. We are going to do some trips if the trains are working… I might persuade her to write a guest blog.
What else do you do on line and wonder why – like always losing Wordblitz…
Or are you in a controlling relationship with an owl who has promised to teach you another language?
Or are you addicted to Wordle?
Tell us what is leaving you bloggled this week.
Times and Tides of a Beachwriter 
Hi Janet. I have had the exact same experience with WordPress! It seems so clunky to use anymore, and no rhyme or reason as to why it does what it does! Also, I have to admit that I, too, have had a controlling relationship with an owl (Duolingo)! Ha! If you don’t interact with him after a long time, he gets downright upset with you!! Ha!
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Hello Anita, thanks for your comments, glad it’s not just me.
I have found myself trying to explain to the owl that I have been busy!
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The exact things happen to me, Janet. Sometime after I write a long comment, my finger touches the screen on the phone, it takes me to another WP page. When I go back to the post, my comment disappears. One time, I commented on the same post three times and eventually I wrote a much shorter comment and clicked send before it disappeared.
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Hello Miriam I sympathise entirely. How many wonderful interesting comments are lost in the ether?
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I’m having the same problem with WordPress. That’s blogglement enough for one week.
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Hello Liz, yes there is a limit to how much blogglement we can take.
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A number of people have switched from WordPress to Substack, that has its disadvantages, too.
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I haven’t heard of Substack, it would be a dilemma to change then find nobody else had and one was all alone on Substack!
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That’s a valid concern.
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I am also in a strange relationship with WordPress…
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Yes Marina it seems we all are.
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I’ll bet the WP Engineers use us bloggers like guinea pigs to test new “features.”
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Ah yes Audrey and then read our comments and laugh….
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All of this sounds very familiar, Janet. Nothing like having to log in when you’re already logged in. The other irritant is that I type on my laptop and desktop. That leads to all of this two-step verification stuff that is very annoying because it constantly makes me change passwords that the other device doesn’t know.
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Hello Pete, yes very annoying and not like those computer whizzes in action films ( or perhaps criminals in real life ) who get into top secret sites in seconds!
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My WordPress has been behaving of late. That said, I’ve not been over active…
I’ve had flirtations with that controlling owl in French, German, Italian and Russian. How annoying is it when you lose your mega-say streak because of a glitch?!
I have to dive into approving a book proof with Ingram Spark today, the clunkiest website in the world… Wish me luck!
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I would like to dip into other languages such as Russian just to see what they look like.
That sounds scary Jaqueline, good luck.
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Russian is quite interesting, with having a different alphabet. Fortunately, I was a spoddy child who taught herself Russian for a while aged 12, so I can actually read the Cyrillic alphabet. I found it quite hard on Duolingo with an English keyboard!
The proof approval was completely straightforward. Go figure!
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From reading my blog, you will be aware that my own issues with WordPress have reached the situation best described as ‘A perfect storm’. I am trying (and mostly failing) not to let it stress me to the point where I just delete my blog.
I have never played any word games, especially not on a phone, which I still only use as a phone. (That makes me weird in 2024, I know)
Best wishes, Pete.
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Very wise Pete, but it is quite fun to play with friends also living alone, even though they keep beating me.
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The owl stopped being toxic after I muted all notifications. Last week was my 9th Duoversary, so I got a polite email, but no more “You have made Duo angry” ones. I like the classes, but not the owl’s tantrums.
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By coincidence Duolingo just sent me a survey about my experience under ‘negatives I complained about the owl’s controlling behaviour! I like the stories and the cartoons.
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I hope they get such feedback more often, till the time they decide to change their ways. I too like the cartoons! The app is really good, just that their in-house copywriter who writes those awful reminders is terrible.
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Yes we could do a better job than Owl’s copywriters.
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I miss the time on WP before Jetpack separated from it. I don’t really understand it and haven’t downloaded Jetpack. I just hope my WP theme keeps getting supported or I don’t know what I’ll do. With all this said, I’ve found the WP help desk very good, considering I’m more of a gardener than a techie, requiring patience on their part.
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Hello Lisa. I haven’t downloaded Jetpack as I usually avoid changing anything in case it all goes horribly wrong!
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Just come back after a few months’ hiatus. Quite a lot to catch up.
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Welcome back Chen, yes lots to catch up with.
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I long for the good old days of Xanga. It was so user friendly but evidently wasn’t good at generating revenue.
Now hold on while I log in ~sigh~
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Hi Janet, I hope you are enjoying your time with your sister. WP drives me crazy too.
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Yes thanks Robbie, she has been here a few days now and the sun came out on Sunday afternoon after days of torrential rain!
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Lovely 🌞🤗
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I was having the same problem requiring that I log in on my iPhone and iPad every time I wanted to make a comment, even though I was already logged in. My big iMac was fine. But when I got a new iMac it too had this problem. I realized that on my old computer I was using Chrome instead of Safari. Now that I’ve switched to Chrome everything works, at least on my big computer. Now of course I am having new problems. 1. There is now a second banner on the top of my screen telling me to upgrade my plan to remove the banner. 2. Lately I’ve been getting a lot of long fake-looking name subscribers to my site and WordPress.com’s AI tells me that my free site has no access to suitable plugins and suggests I may want to upgrade to a plan with more robust spam protection… (And I have just copied this comment in case it gets lost!)
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Your comment didn’t get lost. Very frustrating for you.
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Hi Janet. It sure seems like we’re all enduring WordPress’s ever-changing madness. Once the block editor came along, everything got worse. My blog reading nights are longgg because of having to sign in to every single blog I read, it’s maddening. And I think Sally was onto something when she held strong and said she wasn’t changing over to block editor. Her’s is one of the handful of blogs I don’t have to jump hoops through thank goodness, lol, I’m always there. 🙂
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Hello Debbie, yes I’m beginning to forget what WordPress was like when I first joined.
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That makes two of us. 🙂
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Janet I am very flattered that for some reason the Happiness Engineers have largely forgotten I exist…I do have the odd quirk…as does my blog but thankfully and touching wood most days things are okay. I am sorry however for everyone who is having issues and unfortunately where WP used to do an update perhaps once a week that caused issues for those using other browsers, they are updating much more frequently and it causes glitches until it rolls through the time zones. It is very frustrating as this is meant to be fun. And when it ceases to be that, people begin to drop out and WP needs to be much more reactive to the issues otherwise we will lose more amazing members of our writing community…Have a wonderful time with your sister and hope you have lovely September weather.. ♥
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Thanks Sally, yes until you hear other bloggers comments it’s easy to think something has gone wrong at home base!
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This is so true.
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The log in issue on WordPress seems so random. They won’t accept my comment, I will scroll to the next post on the same Blog, make the same comment (pertaining to the other post), and it will be accepted.
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