The revolution begins… ahead of schedule… because organizing bloggers is like herding cats or trying to get musicians to all show up at band practice on time!
I was going to start the revolution tomorrow, but now I think everybody is just about commented out.
By tomorrow all the torches will burnt down the black stubs and the pitchforks will all be rusty.
On top of that, some of you who have already commented on the other three posts I did about the new WordPress changes actually like them, or are at least not bothered by them all that much. All I can say is that if America had to revolt against the British Empire now, we would be lucky if three people showed up. We wouldn’t have Minute Men, we would have Maybe Sometime Next Week Men…
Also, some of you are sick right now, so of course they want me to wait. So we fall into three groups for this revolution; the ‘Hey, I already commented once, you want me to type more words?’ group, the ‘can I get back to you on that when I feel better?’ group, and the ‘but I don’t really mind the new changes’ group.
But I will not be swayed!
Up the revolution!
Make a comment. Type a post. Tell WordPress what is on your mind.
Or else I am just going back to telling silly stories and doing funny Photoshop pictures.
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***UPDATE***
Just in case some of you get lazy and do not comment again, I am going to paste some of your comments from the other posts I did… without any context or my hilarious replys…
joehoover says:
Yeah! I hate change, unless it’s for the better which is ok, but I don’t like the new one either, it’s wrong and people need to be held accountable.
Bring back the stocks in the town square where they must wear their jammies whilst being pelted with rotten tomatoes.
Rotten Ray says:
Look at the WordPress forums. Search for WordPress under Explore Topics. You will find a LOT of people who think as you do, or in this case, as I do. See http://irvent.wordpress.com/perpetual-rant/
Jennifer Butler Basile says:
Love it. I totally agree with the luring/inviting readers and the fact that it’s depressing to know all 21 views were the same person – probably doting grandma, too!
sj says:
I really can’t even stand the new reader. The GIANT BLUE BAR with the BRIGHT WHITE hurts my head so much.
Luckily I have the REAL stats page (without the total viewers) and my dashboard bookmarked on my bookmarks bar, so I have access to it with one click until they decide to take it away from me.
dustylizard says:
I was crushed when they split out views. Only, like, 4 people read my stuff.
elroyjones says:
It sucks.
kanundra says:
I agree, I don’t like the new reader. 
behindthemaskofabuse says:
thankfully i’ve never used the reader, i don’t know how, welcome to the dark side!
walktx says:
I am no longer able to do some things when I add a post but I’m thinking they are trying to nag me into becoming a paying customer instead of a free blogger.
charlottecarrendar says:
Can’t stand the new reader, and sure as eggs hate the fact that my pics aren’t showing up. Boo to WP. 
Jonathan Humphreys says:
Bleurgh. That crap’s ugly. AND THEY’RE STILL LEAVING THE LIKE BUTTON IN THERE. *hammers his keyboard until it breaks* >_<
*replaces it* And my stats page seems to have broken to. 
josefkul says:
Honestly, I would have to disagree with your position on this post. A lot of people install Google analytics on their sites to know as much information about their work and reader demographic as they can and WordPress is just trying to give you this information as part of their services. This doesn’t mean that you should change yourself to accommodate your readers, but that you can use the more detailed information to figure out how you can become a better you. Someone could have thousands of followers, but if they aren’t reading anything you are writing or engaging in your work then what good are those followers. The added information could help you understand why they aren’t sticking around. Attacking WordPress and their new statistical information probably isn’t going to help you much, but looking at their statistics and using them to improve yourself sure might.
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Mooselicker says:
I actually really like knowing how many people are viewing. Most people come to blogs for pictures anyway.
Someday this week I’m going to pull a prank on you and get you extra hits. No one will be hurt so don’t worry.
Mooselicker says:
I forgot to add I dislike other changes they have made. It’s a lot harder to find new blogs and vice versa.
Trent Lewin says:
I have my pitchfork and flaming beaver at the ready, sir, to do battle in this revolution. I am just awaiting my orders.
benzeknees says:
I already have my post for tomorrow scheduled because I was in a writing mood yesterday & got Monday & Tuesday’s posts done at the same time. My Tuesday posts are called “Tickle Me Tuesday” because I try to bring a little levity to my corner of the blogisphere. I am a computer moron, so I don’t understand what half the statistics mean about my site, so I can’t really say it’s affected me all that much. But I am not happy about the changes to Reader. I didn’t even know I had a Reader because previously when I signed up to follow people (like you) it would automatically come to my email which is the way I like it. Then it just changed & I would sign up to follow someone but I wouldn’t get their posts. I thought there was something wrong with me. Then just last week I stumbled upon my Reader & was surprised to see all these posts I had signed up for in there. In order to get them to come to my email I have to go into a person’s post & tick the box to get follow up posts by email (which I cannot do unless I comment). Sometimes I don’t comment on everyone’s posts that I follow. If I enjoyed the post but really don’t have anything to add, I’ll just hit Like to let them know I was there. Maybe you could include this rant with your other messages of dissatisfaction?
thecheekydiva says:
Hey there Arthur. don’t mind those new stats, but I miss the Freshly Pressed page, I don’t like the new Reader at all, and I hate the way that you have to reload your page endless times to see your new comments. I heard it’s supposed to make it mobile friendly, and my number have gone up since the changes, which is great, but I’m finding it all hard to work with. Whether I’ll get used to it all, or just continue to be disgruntled remains to be seen. Just remember when you’re a famous author, that I was one of the one’s who read you all the time.
elroyjones says:
There are a lot of things I don’t like but I am ill so I don’t have the time to catalogue them all. You are not wrong. I cannot commit to the revolution because I am ill; you’ll have to revolt without me.
SocietyRed says:
Agreed. I’m in. Viva! Red
Edward Hotspur says:
I hope this post gets Freshly Pressed. I really do.
Pouring My Art Out 
“We’re going to have a revolution . . . oh, oh”
Oh, we are already having it… it is being had.
The changes totally suck, and please tell me HOW I can have (shortly after midnight) a number of countries my views came from larger than the number of visitors? They can’t all be viewing my blog in an airplane, can they?
Ooooohhhh… a brand new complaint! You are a revolutionary born and bred. You are now officialy revolting!
I always aspired to that!
We all have a little revolutionary inside us. We just need to be sure to let them out for a good cause.
I hate the new reader!! I’ve only been blogging since August, and was just starting to figure it all out. It also bugs me that blogs that use WP in the background don’t show up on the reader, either.
Yes… you are now a revolutionary! And welcome to the weird world of blogging. I am a computer moron, so it is worse for me.
I abhor the Visits/Views split — please let me go back to the impression that all 16 people who visited my blog today were individuals. Really, this is nothing but discouragement — and I see nothing gained by crushing hope like that. Assholes.
Oh my…
I seem to have struck a nerve there. But the people have spoken, WordPress. You made the lady swear. I hope you are proud of yourselves.
i think the new stats thing is good (but i am not a freaky stats junky), but the new reader thing is rubbish; if you would like me to expunge further on how this makes me feel deep down inside and how it affects me on an emotional level, then you’ll have to beg….
Hey, I am just fueling the fire, I didn’t light it… okay, I did… but I am not a pyro or anything… okay, I am, but… screw it, the building is on fire.
i like warmth, i find it very good at getting rid of the cold…don’t burn down wordpress though will you, you’ll lose all meaning
We had to destroy the village in order to free it…
hmmmm…sounds a little draconian, but you’re just so damn convincing!
It worked so well for us in Vietnam…
oh yes, of course; you won the ‘who can make the best movies in order to shed a little doubt on the actual outcome of the war’ war
That is what we do… and why we invented Hollywood…
i thought that was because you had nine giant letters hanging about and didn’t quite know what to do with them?
Well, that too… but we could have made another ‘o’ and spelled hoody wool and manufactured sweatshirts…
but what would you have done with the extra ‘l’?
I am so self-centered there can never be an extra I…
‘L’……….but it seems your comment covers this
Like a glove…
I support your revolution but I won’t be writing a post on the matter since it wouldn’t fit my blog format So I’ll do a quick rant here.
I actually like the new stats format, it tells me that only about half the people who find my blog feel compelled to leave immediately. I don’t like the new reader format, and particularly the fact that some posts disappear from my WP reader. This is a huge problem, because that unfortunately gives me the false sense of confidence that it is actually possible to read every post of every blog I follow. I also don’t like the huge letters and large pictures in the reader and on Freshly Pressed, this feels like WP is targeting the kindergateners as the most promising new audience. Finally, I think there is something wrong with WP tag reader, since I’ve recently used it to read a bunch of posts tagged “Humor”, and none of these posts were funny.
I noticed that about the humor not being funny anymore, but I thought that was just people tagging weird.
What time do you call this? Don’t you people sleep? The revolution stops for nothing! 🙂
I don;t use the humor reader anymore, they are never funny, people just tag everything and anything to get themselves out there. The best way to find the good ones is through comments they leave on other people you follow.
True genius.
Oh wow. I’ve only commented here yesterday to show my support and I already feel the WP’s backlash: my latest post doesn’t seem show up in the reader, or any of the tag readers. And that hasn’t even been two weeks since WP Freshly Pressed me! Stay strong, my friend! Bloggers of WP, unite!
Our revolution has its first casualty. You will be remembered!
Wow you’re really serious abuot this. I like that my picture made it in there and it comes up as the main picture. No wonder you’re getting so many comments 😉
Oh… I didn’t know I was making you that famous…
You said you were going to do something that made me get a lot of hits today and I got a lot of hits… what are you up too… and keep doing it.
Ok I’ll do it again. You have a favorite post you want people to see?
Is that a trick question??? Wait… I have to take Mollie to vollyball… can we talk about this in a while?
Yes. I’ll choose a random recent post so when you get home you’ll have 100 more hits. I’ll let you know my secret too because I care.
No pick an oldie but a goodie…
I was tempted not to post, so there would be more Photoshop pictures – and silly stories. I won’t be doing a post, but I will register my hatred of the changes in the Reader here. I hate it! The bloggers name and avatar are too small, and the pictures are too big. And I miss having thumbnails of all of the pictures on a post right on the reader entry. 😦
Thank you for taking part in my experiemnt on freedom of choice… or whatever it is I am doing. Now give me some ideas for funny picture posts. I have one suggestion to think up funny places in real life to put an ejector seat.
Ejector seats would be good. I always get a kick of people who take an object round the world with them; there are Photoshop possibilities there. I think shopping yourself, an object, a person – into classic album covers would be fun. You live in San Diego. Do you take your own photos around the city to mess with?
Oh, you really need to scan through my posts… there is some weird stuff down there. I have Photoshopped just about everything you can think of. And I do these moving pictures that I can’t even explain…
You will be a winter weekend project. I know, it *is* winter, but I have too many irons in the fire right now. I’ll be back (said in best Arnold voice).
Hey, no pressure, but I think you might really enjoy yourself… or turn me in to the authorities… whichever…
I *loved* Willy Week, so I’m sure I’ll enjoy myself. 😉
Okay… ’nuff said…
I like having the last word. …
Well so do I…
Ok, I give, because if I keep laughing, I’ll wake up my husband who is asleep on the sofa!
ooooohhh. what did he do?
He fell asleep waiting for me to quit messing around with blogs. I’ll wake him up around 2:00 a.m. and tell him to drag himself upstairs with me.
oh… I thought he got himself in trouble…
Nah, he’s a peach and keeps me supplied with chocolate. 🙂
That is a good thing to be supplied with… up to a point…
Do you tend to “graze” when you write? I went through just over 3# of M&M’s when I wrote my last book.
Nope… can’t type with sticky fingers.
I put in a link to you in my new post, and a picture inspired by you… so there… (even though it is really an old picture, and… never mind)…
No funny stories and photo shops!
Not till after the revolution! Did George Washington stop to do funny pictures while we fought to be free? I think not… well, maybe…
maybe
Please do not do one of your endless stream of comments where you keep poking the monkey and trying to get me to keep trying to come up with new crazy things to say to you on this post. Do it on one of my old posts… because I do enjoy it, but you are walking right into the crossfire of the revolution, and I don’t want any innocent bystanders to be hurt because of my revolutionary tendencies.
okay
sorry thanks thanks sorry
eh?
I don’t know.
i know
I know you do.
Let the beavers fill the ships and light the sails! Let their burning fur be a lesson to WordPress and all its ilk! The beavers are coming, and they are bringing Canadians with them! All hail the burly body of the beaver!
Oh yeah, where am I supposed to comment?
With comments like those, as many places as you can!!!
I updated my post and cut and pasted most of the old comments from the other revolution posts… minus my funny answers, so now people will know about your fascination with flaming beavers…
You are not a nice man.
I am a revolutionary! A rabble-rouser! You can’t make a revolution without breaking a few hearts!
Oooooohhhh… I should copyright that…
I said it first!
Now you are just being silly…
No, I’m just taking credit for my brilliant thoughts before you try to make away with them. If it’s any consolation, you can have the flaming beavers. I can send them in crates.
Asbestos crates???
I wasn’t planning on it, no. Is that a problem? Asbestos is bad for you, you know.
So are flaming beavers… And I am pasting a comment into hundreds of blogs to keep the revolution going…
Oh boy.
I am on fire… even without the beavers…
Are we supposed to tag it as something particular when we talk about the changes?
Try ‘blogs,blogging,wordpress, or whatever. It couldn’t hurt.
Cool 🙂
Yes, yes you are.
i was on board until you mentioned the british empire and have instead decided to kick start that and reclaim our territories
We would be better off as a part of your Empire, Joe… I am going to be a loyalist!
First law I will pass when I conquer you is for all in Goverment to wear Jammies
Yay.Let the counter revolution begin. Do I get to wear a red coat???
That made me think of a holiday rep. Red Coats to British people are the entertainment staff at Butlins, a chain of UK holiday camps. I’ll have to blog about them as they will be in such stark contrast to camps in the USA, they are for all the family to go to on holiday. The walls are covered in barbed wire so it’s kinda like being in prison for two weeks. The Red Coats entertain everyone with some very bad cabaret. I will write about it, I even have photos of me in one as a kid.
See, to us in the U.S., ‘redcoats’ will always be associated with Paul Revere’s ride and those strutting, jack-booted imperialist thugs who gunned down unarmed civilians at the Boston massac…uh… I mean those staunch, brave lads in the proud uniform of the Queen’s Royal Troops who tried to keep order amongst the civil unrest of an unruly colonial province… yeah… that’s what I mean…
hah! What a contrast to a camp man trying to entertain a room with poorly executed magic tricks and a rendition of We Are Family.
I guess which ever redcoat you think of, they look fine and handsome until they point a gun at you and tell you what to do.
Therein lies the difference, our red coats just point the karaoke microphone at you and ask you for a verse of Love is in the Air
That is still repressive colonialism at its worst! I am going to go throw my tea bag of Earl Grey breakfast tea right in the bay! Nah… I’m just messing with you. I love my Earl Grey.
😀
Can’t stand tea! I know what to bring if I ever make it over there now
And crumpets, because I have no idea what those are…
You are shitting me?!
Crumpets are Crumptious!
Saying that I only ever have shop bought which are a bit rubbery (they need gently toasting and smeared with butter) But I recently looked up a recipe for them and they look dead easy, bit of bread flour, bit of yeast, probably an egg and some water I guess from memory, let it ferment a couple of hours then grease some cooking rings (I have plenty of kitchen accessories I never use) pour in the batter and fry for a few minutes til it bubbles then flip for a minute. The tops of crumpets have loads of holes caused by this process. Then you can cool and freeze and then toast when needed, I bet they taste much nicer homemade.
I’ll try them then add it to my cookery blog I am working on starting. I’m doing that as friends keep asking me for stuff I make them, I am no chef, they are pretty basic meals, but what with them being the ready-meal generation they need all the help they can get
Wait, that sounds like what we call English muffins… now you need to get your sweet ass over here and we can cook stuff and mess up the kitchen.
WordPress mobile doesn’t update the topics I follow. Not sure why. I updated it and it still doesn’t work.
Thank you for your input… now do your own post and spread the power of the written word! In one week we can have every person on WordPress weighing in on this subject.
I decided to uninstall the App and reinstall it. It fixed the problem. (It wasn’t the first time it had happened either, so now I know what to do. Last time I just waited for it to update and it took over a week.)
Change takes time.
I am sensing mixed feelings…
Well, I don’t want to be mean about it. I understand that these things are never as simple as we make them out to be, that’s all. If I were mad about it, I would take action. Obviously, I’m just posting comments to piggy back your thoughts, so that hardly counts as righteous anger.
I am not trying to make people more angry than they really are. Just rabble-rousing a little.
indeed…
Hey, I am all about the love… I just think people should have a place to air their viewpoints on this. It isn’t going to change anything… or unchange them.
This is the first log-in I’ve made in a while and I was thrown for a loop by the Reader tool.
And how does that make you feel?
Sorry… I was channeling Dr. Phil for a minute there…
I feel confused and scared. Nothing is like it was and I don’t like that.
That is good… release the inner anger… let the poison seep out… and please buy my self-help books…
You can’t make me hug anyone. That’s where I draw the line.
Even though I am an awesome hugger, I never force my views on anyone. I am not a hug-nazi!
Thank you for respecting my boundaries and my antisocial tendencies.
No… I get it… but if you ever met me in person, you would want to hug me… just sayin’…
I’ll take your word for it.
Have I ever lied to you?