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The Biggest Problem with Wordpress, in One Image

9 points by napoleond 14y ago

joshuahornby 14y ago
How many tabs? Honest question why do you need so many open?
- habosa 14y ago
  Haha I'm a huge tab addict. I didn't post this to HN but this is on my blog. This is a medium tab load for me, when I'm doing research I get to a lot more and when I make an effort to clear them I can get lower. I use Instapaper to save most of what I want to read later but some articles need more than just text, which is why I leave them open in a tab until I read them.
- jggonz 14y ago
  I'm currently using 38 tabs in this browser window. When you use a browser to gather and organize ideas, you generally end up with tons of open tabs. Browsing HN is by itself a tab-heavy operation... unless you're doing it wrong. :)
  - leviathan 14y ago
    > unless you're doing it wrong Everyone has their own way of browsing. I generally browse HN on iPad, so I prefer to click the comments and open the article in a new tab. Read article. Close tab. Read comments. Press back. Check the next interesting thing.
blibble 14y ago
there's a resize input control in the bottom right corner, so what's the problem?
- habosa 14y ago
  See my post edit. Also, I didn't post this to HN. I was just complaining in a vacuum, didn't mean to bother the community with this (although the blog traffic never hurts).
  - napoleond 14y ago
    Sorry, I didn't mean to bother anyone either [by posting it to HN]. I thought it was an interesting post--responsive design has been getting a lot of attention lately, but often times creators forget to put as much effort into optimizing UX on bigger screens as they do on smaller ones.
    - habosa 14y ago
      No problem at all, it's awesome that someone else posted my blog to HN! I was just saying that I wasn't the one who posted and I wasn't trying to make a big deal of it. I totally agree with you, this is a UX problem and maybe someone at Wordpress will see it now that you've posted it here.
andrewmunsell 14y ago
*Wordpress.com. Self hosted Wordpress doesn't have this issue, at least to that extent.
gkoberger 14y ago
There's a way to resize the text area (http://cl.ly/image/1G2q3D472s2C http://cl.ly/image/1G2q3D472s2C) and a way to enter full screen mode (http://cl.ly/image/0I2B3i0l133K http://cl.ly/image/0I2B3i0l133K). And this is just wordpress.com; local WordPress installations have it as an option. There are a lot of good things about WordPress, and a lot of bad. This is neither.
norswap 14y ago
On a screen as big as this, I certainly wouldn't want a text area that spans 50% of the screen width. It's OK if you are editing html it's fine, but for WYSIWYG you are going to have so seriously drawn out paragraphs. By the way, I read somewhere that 600px width was the sweet spot for a block of text, in terms of readability. (For the height however, I agree the layout is totally stupid.)
- habosa 14y ago
  I was mostly concerned with the height. When I put an image in the post I couldn't see anything else in the whole box, and my cursor was invisible.

9 points by napoleond 14y ago

joshuahornby 14y ago

How many tabs? Honest question why do you need so many open?

habosa 14y ago
Haha I'm a huge tab addict. I didn't post this to HN but this is on my blog. This is a medium tab load for me, when I'm doing research I get to a lot more and when I make an effort to clear them I can get lower. I use Instapaper to save most of what I want to read later but some articles need more than just text, which is why I leave them open in a tab until I read them.
jggonz 14y ago
I'm currently using 38 tabs in this browser window. When you use a browser to gather and organize ideas, you generally end up with tons of open tabs. Browsing HN is by itself a tab-heavy operation... unless you're doing it wrong. :)
- leviathan 14y ago
  > unless you're doing it wrong Everyone has their own way of browsing. I generally browse HN on iPad, so I prefer to click the comments and open the article in a new tab. Read article. Close tab. Read comments. Press back. Check the next interesting thing.

blibble 14y ago

there's a resize input control in the bottom right corner, so what's the problem?

habosa 14y ago
See my post edit. Also, I didn't post this to HN. I was just complaining in a vacuum, didn't mean to bother the community with this (although the blog traffic never hurts).
- napoleond 14y ago
  Sorry, I didn't mean to bother anyone either [by posting it to HN]. I thought it was an interesting post--responsive design has been getting a lot of attention lately, but often times creators forget to put as much effort into optimizing UX on bigger screens as they do on smaller ones.
  - habosa 14y ago
    No problem at all, it's awesome that someone else posted my blog to HN! I was just saying that I wasn't the one who posted and I wasn't trying to make a big deal of it. I totally agree with you, this is a UX problem and maybe someone at Wordpress will see it now that you've posted it here.

andrewmunsell 14y ago

*Wordpress.com. Self hosted Wordpress doesn't have this issue, at least to that extent.

gkoberger 14y ago

There's a way to resize the text area (http://cl.ly/image/1G2q3D472s2C http://cl.ly/image/1G2q3D472s2C) and a way to enter full screen mode (http://cl.ly/image/0I2B3i0l133K http://cl.ly/image/0I2B3i0l133K). And this is just wordpress.com; local WordPress installations have it as an option. There are a lot of good things about WordPress, and a lot of bad. This is neither.

norswap 14y ago

On a screen as big as this, I certainly wouldn't want a text area that spans 50% of the screen width. It's OK if you are editing html it's fine, but for WYSIWYG you are going to have so seriously drawn out paragraphs. By the way, I read somewhere that 600px width was the sweet spot for a block of text, in terms of readability. (For the height however, I agree the layout is totally stupid.)

habosa 14y ago
I was mostly concerned with the height. When I put an image in the post I couldn't see anything else in the whole box, and my cursor was invisible.