Time from time there are posts about featured blogs, or those “changes” and it seems that AR does not really understand why members often are not thrilled.
Last post about featured posts with grammar and spelling mistakes had a comment from Kerrie, where she asked if we know how to filter “featured” so that we see them.
I believe it is symptomatic. Can’t we filter and see featured? Yes. So what’s the problem?
The problem is that featured posts were important not only for those who were following them, but for the rest of the readers, and they used to be prominently displayed.
The problem is that it was way better before, than now, and it is not the first change, which makes communication on AR not better, but more unnatural.
I wonder who they have there, who knows what we need and who know it so much better than we do. Somebody who is so confident s/he is doing us a favor with each of these changes.
Kids love to play, but where are the bosses? And for quite some time already we are not even asked.
Actually, not true, We are asked after the fact, and when people are exceptionally pissed off, something is done, like they added this filter, so that now we could be able to read featured posts without the need to surf through all this added BS, that they stick on the page now.
Do people still read featured? Yes, those who filter. And what about those who do not filter? They do not read, unless they run into it. Funny that AR would implement the change, and then seem not to be interested in results. I believe we now see featured posts with fewer comments.
But this is the result of a series of changes, that are all aimed at mimicking communication instead of real communication, which we had.
After last update I started seriously considering leaving AR. Because they would never hear me, and would never understand me. Every day now I come and wonder, which genius decided to get rid of our comments on the Home page. That’s how I kept in touch with people. I would go back and recheck the blogs where I left a comment and re-engage…
Can we do it now? Sure. If you tag me, then I would even know that I left a comment on your site. But it is now not in my hands, it depends on other people.
The "genius" who came up with this idea has no clue about communication, and does not really care how people communicate. Not pretend to communicate, but how real people caring about real people communicate...
Kerrie, do you hear me? Who is the captain of this ship now? Who is the brain of the operation? Who is allowing this once a very bright concept become so dull?
It is not? Then you are, probably, a newbie :)
It is a heretic idea, but it feels that on this side of AR, among members, there is more concern about AR and more goodwill about it, than on the governing side.
Jay Thompson corrected me saying that Zillow knows about AR. Why we don’t see it? Is anybody there asking the same questions I am asking? Does anyone feel our frustration? Zillow, where are you?
Look at the blog page and count non-listing blog posts. If you are not lazy, go 7-8 years ago and do the same… What a different world it was. The naïve world when we thought that things only get better. But here comes the change…
Got tired of this change… Why change? Can we get back a dollar?
And you can keep the change…
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