It wouldn’t be the first company that made a major gaff. From the Edsel, to new Coke, to Windows Vista, to credit default swaps, companies have made horrible decisions, and some survived their mistakes, and some…
WordPress has decided to update their stats program, making it ostensibly more functional and comprehensive for the bloggers that use it. Thus far, it hasn’t worked out. There are still “lost stats” out there, stats that blogs used to have but are now-somewhere. No body is sure where exactly. They’ve also made the widgets page over and it is now incredibly klunky. The Snap preview is not working as well.
All of this affects functionality obviously, and the stats issue undoubtedly affects page rank. It was an idea gone awry, and in this case it may bring down what is now a huge blogging platform. That’s unfortunate, because I think they’re just trying to enhance the WordPress experience. Too bad they tried to enhance it on a live system.
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