Thursday, December 3, 2020

Frustrated but Inaction Persists

I am growing increasingly disgusted with blogger.com. A couple of months ago, there was a 'refresh' of the UI and I'm not a fan. One small detail here or one small detail there wouldn't bother me, but my experience is not as minimal as one or two small details being irksome. Instead, it feels like when I compose a post, there is some new small detail that is irksome. For example, I have embedded hundreds of videos from YouTube.com on this blog. When I have added the HTML code for the video to be embedded, the way it used to work is I would see the video preview when viewing the page in the "WYSIWYG" (What You See Is What Yo
u Get) view. However, now with the new UI 'refresh' on Blogger, I see the following:

A second small detail that irks me is that it used to be that there was a button in the editing ribbon to toggle between "WYSIWYG" view and "HTML" view. With the new UI 'refresh' on Blogger, those buttons have been replaced with this drop-down menu:

Is it a big deal? To me, yes, it is. I have no "formal" training in HTML so every morsel of information I have about coding HTML is from working on Blogger, where I can either toggle from WYSIWYG view to HTML view, or working in Dreamweaver, where I can view both the "Design" of the page and the "Code" at the same time. I rely upon toggling or viewing between the two views to ensure I have not made a mistake in my HTML code.

I was only going to mention two small details I find irksome, but when I added the above picture, I realized another small detail that I don't like in the UI 'refresh' which is the way that pictures are added to a post. It used to be that if you selected the "Image" icon in the editor toolbar, a window would pop up where you could choose the source of the picture you wanted to add. If you wanted to change the source of the picture, there was a tab you could click to instantly change the source. Now, you get a menu and choose your source and, based upon your choice, the Add images window displays, which (now) has no way to change the source! 

In conclusion, I have looked at what it would take to migrate from Blogger to an alternative, but I don't have any plans to migrate.

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