but I also found an ugly new box on my sidebar containing my fabulous 'followers'. Ugh! The snow?, well, it's just an inconvenience,
but the new followers widget?, ugly. I think its fun to see who follows my little world and it also gives me the opportunity to find new sites and new people, but, alas - this newly designed widget? is just plain garish! I have made the choice to move it toward the bottom of my sidebar or remove it altogether. AND the last thing I want to do is connect it to my social site. I opened a Facebook account a few months ago so that I could see pics of my niece's family and chat online with other family members. But! as anyone who has a Facebook account knows, you are so busy with new friend notifications, pokes, crushes, long lost family members, etc., that I only log in about once a month! It's exhausting! I hope blogger rethinks their new widget design and allows us to have a choice. I choose the old widget!
UPDATE! The new followers widget now shows my uTube account. Interesting!
26 comments:
Oh Jeane has this happened to you too? I have lost all my dear followers and their images are all out of order and I am SO VERY MIFFED. What can we do ????
P.S. I will read your blog when I have calmed down !!
That's exactly how I felt about the widget and I moved it down, too! ick
urrgggh i see what u mean - i hadn't noticed mine had changed - i'm off to check...lovely snowy images by the way.
urgh i'm back to tell you mine has changed to - yuk yuk - what do we do?
I love your winter shadow shot. Rhythmic.
I agree, it sucks, but I wouldn't even notice it because your work looks so amazing.
Congrats on the show. It's beautifully done.
lovely shadows,... beauty
I really like your new header image - and like most of your commenters, I'm less than pleased with the "giant" followers widget. Reads very commercial. Hey, we all know it's Google. Enough already.
It's confusing to use as well. A click can give all the wrong information.
If nothing else, we should get a choice.
It is SO ugly.
I haven't noticed a new following widget on mine - maybe it takes longer to get to Camelopardalis ...
Love the snow shadows! And the grassy plant.
ooo, I wonder if it will show up on mine. In reading you r post I thought, how bad can it be. Then I scrolled down. Girl, it's bad!
I agree with Facebook. oy, another time vaccume! I simply don't return any of the cocktails, hugs, love bombs etc because to do so it makes me sign up to some application that then everyone gets to see and fuggetaboudit. I liks seeing people's pics and getting a few messages and I am trying to limit it to that.
Snow again? Be careful on the driveway!
I'm not crazy about this change either...it's all out of order?!
I'm leaving Facebook alone, I'm not that friendly and it takes so much time with all the hugging!
Hello Fair Artist Jeane,
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We even have a little 'chit chat' room just for the likes of you. It's rightfully called Dante's Pub. But when your enter BEWARE! You are entering the abyss of the artist mind! You may not find your way out.
You're welcome to watch from afar while drinking your brew or pull up a chair and join us for a little chat. Be sure and register and then log in. After all, this is a very private club. We don't allow just any wanderer in our midst.
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I got rid of my Followers widget (which I loved until this morning) because I don't like the idea of my blog becoming part of some Google collective.
ARG! If it's not broken, don't fix it!
hello Ann - hope you got your followers back! - I have stuck mine down at the end of my sidebar!
me too Chris!
yes, Kate! yuk! - I guess we can either live with it or delete the widget!
Hi Karen! - welcome back and thank you so much!
Shayla, that was first thing this morning when the sun was coming through the woods in the back.
thank you B&W
Hi Patrice - you're right, it's google - a choice would be nice - it's just more bang for the buck then I want.
Willow - ditto! - subtle it is not!
Hi Raph - maybe you will be lucky and avoid the 'in you face' widget - thanks for you kind comments!
Hey Sydney - 'time vaccumn' - exactly! - what a good way to put it!
Mary Ann! LOL - OMG! Facebook - how many friends can one person have?
redchair - wow - an evocative comment!
Alan - hi and welcome - I'm leaning very strongly towards removing it - I'll give it a few days and see what happens - thanks for coming by!
Hello,first time here and I love it... love your photograghs!
Yes, even here my followers have been imprisoned. Methinks we'll have to plan a jail break...
While I was sleeping the wicked wizard of widgets was at work with my blog too - going to look into changing it when I get a minute or 2 or 6..............could take even longer I fear - a protest is needed!! Guerrilla widgets anyone??
Hi Jeane,
My, you did move the widget ALL the way down didn't you?! I'm not too worried about it but I wonder why they can't fit all my 18 followers into such a large box!
Love the blue snow picture! Stay warm.
i totally second u... when i saw it i was on apc and for a moment i though 'oh well, must be a pc thing' - okay, was a silly thought... then, i went home and checked it again and there it was the ugly box. it still is on mine. can we choose not to have it? it's just ugly... and yeah, facebook is kinda exhausting.
and I love your snow photographs, beautiful!
Apparently you can change the colors to match your eyes or your blog template ...
Jude - hello and welcome! LOL! a jailbreak - very funny
Rosie - yes, it is a plague - I'm pretty much over it, but will either keep the ugly thing at the bottom of my sidebar or delete it - it's obvious they want to hook in to the social networking sites, but that doesn't interest me....
Hi Derrick - thanks - snow still here today, but less of it - we continue to bundle- alas...
Luisa - LOL! it would be nice to blame it on a pc, but alas, bad design is universal
good morning Daryl - okay, I'm over it - and you're right, being able to match my eye color makes it better! he he....
ooh...I was also pretty ticked when I noticed 6 of my followers missing, all in one day, then a whole new widget thingy...oh well...i love the comment Shayla made about your shadow image...rythmic...so true!
i spent about 30 frantic minutes trying to figure out what/who the hell had invaded my blog before i threw my hands up and said 'alas'... sometimes this online world is very strange... xo
hello Paula - rythmic is good isn't it - thanks so much - 6 of your people gone - alas, hopefully they have been put back!
LOL, Lynne - so funny! - and you are right - strange things happen in cyberspace - I guess I just like to be asked, but that is not always the way things are done! xxo
Further to the widget box, Jeane - I just have an outline on mine and can't see anything in it. I've just looked at yours and it's the same. An empty box? Would you do me a favour please, and tell me if you can see anything in my follwers box? If you can, it must be something in my system that can't read this new thing!
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