Something strange going on
My blog environment is TypePad, as I clearly show by the insertion of the TypePad logo in my sidebar. Until this-morning (AET), I was a big fan of the company; I was proud of ’em. But they've just done something so inexplicable – and done it so precipitately! – that I'm beginning to have my doubts.
TypePad's Help team have been, until now, a paragon of all things good: I received responses to all (and they are legion!) my requests for assistance, promptly, fully and without irritation – or at least without showing it.
More or less overnight they have taken an extremely radical design ... no, not design – access step, and it is both silly and infuriating. They have offered a kind of rationale for this; but the fact is that it is far from complete, and does nothing toward explaining why they made their decision and put it into place without reference to their clients (regardless of an 'advisory panel') and virtually instantly.
I think I may have to abandon my blogging efforts. There doesn't seem to be a place wherein one can post as one wants without being subject to one's blogging platform's being played around with by the company that offers it. WordPress behaved badly, and I am now looking at Typepad's behaving ... not badly, but incomprehensibly.
I have spent quite a long time (for me, anyway) in building my site – achieved only with the willing help of the TypePad Help team. I have finally reached the point where I can look about and cherry-pick things of interest from the All Things TypePad area. I can experiment and see if I'm able to manage their new design offerings.
But now ...
Well ... unless I get far better input than that I've received to date regarding modus operandi, and also regarding what's given rise to all this weird behaviour, I think I'll be obliged to call it a day. I started this blog as a support mechanism for the release of ATLMD; but I'm not prepared to maintain a blogsite wherein the simple and logical method of logging in to it is summarily removed and replaced by something requiring several more steps. Consider: whereas previously I could access my landing page to edit it with a single click, I have now to
go to my dashboard
click on 'posts'
when the list appears, click on 'pages'
and then click on the landing page title !!!
Give me strength ...
