#disaffection — Public Fediverse posts

The headline #case in 1945 was the #prosecution of four #editors of the paper, #accused of #inciting #disaffection in the #armed #forces.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/03/09/radical-reprint-defence-of-four-london-anarchists/

If It Ain’t Broke

WordPress, or more specifically, Jetpack Stats, have irritated me by changing the way in which statistics are presented. I can no longer see which posts have been viewed on the current date. At least, not immediately.

I can see a day’s views, or a month’s, or a year’s and I can click on “apply” and see them for a moment, but if I leave to go to some other website those stats are gone. The default seems to be for a week’s stats, and it is annoying me beyond what is reasonable.

When these changes first appeared I couldn’t see that day’s stats at all. I’m sure I was not the only person who contacted the support people to tell them I was not happy because within twenty-four hours they had fixed that problem. Mind you, I had to go through a lengthy text exchange wherein it was suggested that I pay another $10 a month to get the stats I wanted. I limited my response to a polite “No thanks”!

A visit to my statistics page now presents me with a ghastly bar chart of one week’s stats that looks like a herd of blue elephants’ backsides. I was used to seeing a thirty-day bar chart which was a lot easier on the eyes and more informative.

The listing of visited posts by title now shows the stats for the week, not the day, but that is of no interest to me at all. My focus, perhaps driven by ten years of almost-daily data-watching, is on how many people are interested in what I have to say today. Not yesterday. Not last week. Today.

I don’t know if WordPress or Jetpack actually consulted bloggers, but my guess is the answer is “No”. If they did, they were probably focussed on blogs that are related to revenue and merchandise. Those of us who blog simply to communicate are too far down on the list of valuable patrons to have any influence.

Writing on this blog has become an avenue for self-expression and for connection with readers all over the world. I value the relationships I have formed and developed here, and any changes in the process matter to me. These latest changes have added to a sense of disaffection from the site.

The changes to the ways in which data are presented do not seem to be helpful and I have no idea why they happened. The text exchange I had with the support person indicated that the changes had something to do with the ways in which data is stored and the limitations on storage. I only know that the changes are not an improvement. They have also served to alienate me, just a little.

It wasn’t “broke” and I don’t know why they fixed it. All I know is that it is no longer as user-friendly for me as it once was.

#barCharts #bloggers #blogging #data #disaffection #elephantsBacksides #Jetpack #statistics #storage #WordPress

If It Ain’t Broke

WordPress, or more specifically, Jetpack Stats, have irritated me by changing the way in which statistics are presented. I can no longer see which posts have been viewed on the current date. At least, not immediately.

I can see a day’s views, or a month’s, or a year’s and I can click on “apply” and see them for a moment, but if I leave to go to some other website those stats are gone. The default seems to be for a week’s stats, and it is annoying me beyond what is reasonable.

When these changes first appeared I couldn’t see that day’s stats at all. I’m sure I was not the only person who contacted the support people to tell them I was not happy because within twenty-four hours they had fixed that problem. Mind you, I had to go through a lengthy text exchange wherein it was suggested that I pay another $10 a month to get the stats I wanted. I limited my response to a polite “No thanks”!

A visit to my statistics page now presents me with a ghastly bar chart of one week’s stats that looks like a herd of blue elephants’ backsides. I was used to seeing a thirty-day bar chart which was a lot easier on the eyes and more informative.

The listing of visited posts by title now shows the stats for the week, not the day, but that is of no interest to me at all. My focus, perhaps driven by ten years of almost-daily data-watching, is on how many people are interested in what I have to say today. Not yesterday. Not last week. Today.

I don’t know if WordPress or Jetpack actually consulted bloggers, but my guess is the answer is “No”. If they did, they were probably focussed on blogs that are related to revenue and merchandise. Those of us who blog simply to communicate are too far down on the list of valuable patrons to have any influence.

Writing on this blog has become an avenue for self-expression and for connection with readers all over the world. I value the relationships I have formed and developed here, and any changes in the process matter to me. These latest changes have added to a sense of disaffection from the site.

The changes to the ways in which data are presented do not seem to be helpful and I have no idea why they happened. The text exchange I had with the support person indicated that the changes had something to do with the ways in which data is stored and the limitations on storage. I only know that the changes are not an improvement. They have also served to alienate me, just a little.

It wasn’t “broke” and I don’t know why they fixed it. All I know is that it is no longer as user-friendly for me as it once was.

#barCharts #bloggers #blogging #data #disaffection #elephantsBacksides #Jetpack #statistics #storage #WordPress

Nicholas Eberstadt: China’s collapsing birth and marriage rates reflect a people’s deep pessimism

"China’s nosedive in childbearing is a silent alarm. It signals deep #disaffection with the bleak future the regime is engineering for its subjects. In this land without #democracy, the birth collapse can be read as a landslide vote of no confidence in President Xi Jinping’s rule."

People hate dictatorships and the consequences thereof unless they are direct beneficiaries.

#china #xijinping #demography #dictatorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/02/28/behind-china-collapse-birth-marriage-rates