La tumba del pardo

UPDATE 23-sept 12:47 am:

Una victora pírrica más. Al aprecer los chicos de WordPress entraron en razón:

We’ve heard you loud and clear, and have taken your feedback into account. For those of you that enjoyed the old version better, just go to Design > Themes -> The Journalist v1.3.

Y es que la andanada de reclamos fue mucha y habría sido bastante arriesgado el no hacer caso de ellos. Afortunadamente los usuarios de WordPress y de The Journalist expresaron sus descontentos en el momento y lugar adecuados para que el reclamo se convirtiera en acción.

Do you smell that?, victory son.

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UPDATE 23-sept 10:00 am:
Y al parecer no soy el único, acá unos comments de gente que usa el mismo tema:

Sorry, but it is awful!

The blog is centered in the page, grey shadows added that ruin the minimalist design, a silly little balloon added to the top right of the page with the subtitle of the blog, the font is awful and big, and then for some bad reason right under the title of each post without comments it says: WITHOUT COMMENTS as if that were somehow the really significant point about the whole post.

I am protesting this, it is a very bad change and should be reverted to what it was before. as quickly as possible.

Nice, however, most of my readers have told me they do not like comments at the top of an article…they forget or are too lazy to go back scroll back to the top of the article to comment.

Heather,

Instead of love for the revised theme I feel nausea. Now some of my text overlaps my pictures.

New and improved? No thanks.

Sir Satire

. . . um, no, i don’t like it!

Content in a sans serif font?
Bubbles?
“With/without comments” distracting from the headers?
No horizontal hard-line capability?

I hope this “makeover” to the Journalist theme is not seriously-for-real?

Hello,

I really appreciate the WordPress service, but changing a theme without notifying paying users or giving them recourse to change it back is not terribly good customer service. Please provide a means with which to revert to the old theme.

I don’t like it either, especially the speech bubble. The previous style was clean and professional, and much nicer!

Seriously, this is more than “subtle” change. It’s different.

I choose this theme before boz I like exactly the way it was.

This revised sound like a favourite, but it’s not. Let us choose what we want.

The problem is you’ve substantially altered a template that there is no real alternative to. Switching to another template won’t work due to the unique features of the old ‘The journalist’ so we’re stuck with this new one, which looks inferior. Unless we wipe out all our old content and start again.

I am writing from Austria (Vienna). Sorry, but I have big problems with this change. I would prefer the “old” version which was really sophisticated and smart…
…WordPress should inform before an new version (0.2) comes out. There should be the possibility to use the old version (0.1) or accept the new one (0.2). To have no chance to choose is a bad surprise – for me.

I like the previous one better. Can’t you make both versions as two themes, so we can still choose the previous one as our blog theme? I really liked the black bar that divided the posts… Indeed I miss it. The previous version of The Journalist was my absolute favourite theme. Please, let us have the old one back!

I like the old one better. Maybe two versions could be a possibility?

I don’t use this theme, but I hope you could revise some other ‘outdated’ themes too, like widgetizing Hemingway or updating Freshy to 2.0.

There are people here posting about “how awesome” and “cool” the distortion of the theme is, and when you go to their blogs they are not even using it.

AAHH!!! This completely ruined the formatting of my site…all of the photos are now the wrong size, and I either need to change them all (a time consuming task), or change themes! PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE allow us to choose the old version of this theme as an option, in addition to the new one. Until you can do this, I sadly need to change themes

My blog is completely messed up too. I want to keep the older one!

Totally CRAP! [juar! juar!]

Just because YOU think it’s an improvement, you can’t redesign other people’s blogs against their will! I want my old Journalist-theme back! The Bubble looks like Kindergarten. The Font – I chose original The Journalist because of the font! And borders around linked images?! Now my blog looks completely stupid.

You totally messed it up! Please switch back from this to the the good old days, when “The Journalist” was for grown ups!

No, seriously, you are ruining my style.
I hate it for the following reasons.
(1) I don’t understand why every single images have to be bordered.
(2) The comments are always better below the post and the dates above.
(3) The bubble on the top can’t even fit my information in it.
(4) Red hovering aren’t necessary and they look ugly.
(5) Links in blue aren’t necessary as well and that is why I loved the Journalist theme.

In simple words, please return to us the original version on it.
A new revise can be done and not a major upset like this.
I bet many people would agree with me.

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All in all it would be nice to be left with a choice: I feel kinda…well belittled…I wanna have a saying in how my blog looks like and not find out somehow that the whole design has changed.
Please bring back the old theme as option!

The new version of The Journalist looks really awful…

y así….

UPDATE 23-sept:

¡Pero cuanta mierda! El comment que dejé en el post del autor del anuncio del cambio en The Journalist no me ha sido aprobado. En él les menciono que los íconos del sistema de Gravatar no se despliegan correctamente. Mal, mal. El problema no es que mi comentario no sea aprobado sino que me hayan arruinado mi blog (por el que le metí cerca de $20 USD en dominio y redirecciones) con un tema que no está ni terminado.

Ya Matt la había cagado en otras ocasiones metiendo Spam a los blogs de WordPress mediante enlaces ocultos con el único propósito de ganar dinero y también nos había dado la alternativa de usar otros sistemas de blogging si no nos parecía su “estrategia comercial”. Al elegir las limitantes de WordPress.com los usuarios, tácitamente, aceptamos los pocos temas disponibles y felizmente nos adaptamos y quienes decidimos meterle dinero a esta cosa (con precios muy inflados) para mejorar un poco esa deficiencia al menos esperabamos un poco de respeto.
Como último gesto de confianza pediré que se me regrese a la anterior versión de este tema o mínimo, se me deje subir mi propio diseño sin que me cobren. De lo contrario consideraré dejar WordPress.com y quizás regresar a Blogger o usar mi propio hosting para alojar este espacio de diatribas baratas.

UPDATE:
Efectivamente, los hacks al anterior diseño necesitan también ser modificados…que hueva.

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Chales, a algún genio de WordPress actualizó, sin preguntar, el tema The Journalist a una nueva versión.

Si, yo uso el tema The Journalist.

Independientemente de si es tema tuvo mejoras o no creo que lo debieron hacer es mantener la antigua versión del tema y anunciar la disposición del nuevo tema pero sin tener que ensartárnoslos a los que lo estamos usando.

En lo personal el tema no me gustó con sus nuevos cambios. Quizás es cuestión de acostumbrare a él, sin embargo la anterior versión tenía una belleza simple, esa clase de belleza que….

Bueno, sin distracciones. Esta vez WordPress la caga soberanamente y ahora las imágenes de los Raccooncitos no se ven tan chidas. Incluso habrá que ver si los hacks que le hice a este tema siguen funcionando como antes.

Ahh pero pinche humanidad tan intransigente.