I saved the old blog in my "drafts" folder. So hopefully if and when wix comes to its senses and goes back to (and manages to develop something like) the old blog, I can try another transfer of old to new.
For now just remember: every problem you have with the wix blog is most likely their awful software. It is that bad.
Sadly, if you look at the number of people participating here, it is not a lot. Perhaps one more reason why the wix folks think they don't have to do much for the new blog - not many people care. However, I bet by late March when folks realize they will have to move their old blog to the new one (by 1 April), there might be a flood of complaints when the new adoptees of the new blog realize how bad it is...
For me this is all really tragic: I had 135 issues of my Newsletter on the old blog - it looked and read well. However, the old blog does not even remotely transfer over to the new one...it looks terrible now. Three years of work lost because new software is introduced that is not ready for prime time.
The old blog was slow to load..I received many reports from my readers that it caused their computers to "hang" - and that was usually using Firefox as the browser, though I received reports from others as well.
I am wondering why wix felt the need to introduce a new blog. I think I read somewhere they wanted it to be more accessible to mobile users. Fine, no problem ! But the software the wix folks released as this new blog is so much worse in terms of features, and the ability to edit - that I wonder what is going on at wix? Perhaps they really do not want to support a blog at all...Anyway, I have worked a lot with software since the late 1990s..have a PhD in the sciences...I have never seen anything this bad (the new wix blog). If this was a student project it would get an "F" (for FAIL) from me.
I agree with your basic statement. We have enough to deal with with site design, content management, and building traffic. Dealing with back end issues should not be something we have to worry about. I notices site speed issue on loading the mobile version, and then went to GA to check further. This is my first time using WIX so I don't have a frame of reference for the prior version of the blog. Thanks for corroborating what I have been seeing. Dan
Let's see if anyone responds with something more than, "Why do you want this change?" OR we will call your suggestion to the attention of the wix software developers." These are repeated excuses made by the folks representing wix in this forum. But from a wider perspective: why should any of us who need to use the blog feature, have to go to wix with ideas about how to improve the code (the way their new blog software is currently written) - we just want to use the new blog feature ! In other words, if I want to drive my car (= the wix software), why do I also have to be a mechanic (= software designer/coder) to fix all the problems the wix designers created/never tested?
Yes the new blog (and the old blog) sometimes (meaning at least 75% of the time) take a long time to load via web browsers (in my case Firefox) and frequently "hang" for 1-2 minutes before being fully available to the reader. The problem seems to have worsened slightly with the institution of the new blog...ALSO, try editing the new blog - it takes forever to make easy edits (in my case just one letter - eg., changing "a" to "b" in a line of text) - what seems to be happening is the automatic saving feature saves after each change - and that bogs the entire process that took seconds in the old blog to 1+ minutes in the new blog. Simply put, the new blog sucks. It was not properly tested before being foisted open users. And where are the wix "helpers" here when criticism is leveled at them? They hide. Bottom line: the new blog is awful, terrible, slow - there are not enough words to describe the disaster these folks "designed." Robert DeCandido PhD here in NYC
Dan - did you get any help or resolution to your problem? I am still having the same problems...it is even worse than before.
I saved the old blog in my "drafts" folder. So hopefully if and when wix comes to its senses and goes back to (and manages to develop something like) the old blog, I can try another transfer of old to new.
For now just remember: every problem you have with the wix blog is most likely their awful software. It is that bad.
That's terrible! And I bet no option to retain the legacy format.
Sadly, if you look at the number of people participating here, it is not a lot. Perhaps one more reason why the wix folks think they don't have to do much for the new blog - not many people care. However, I bet by late March when folks realize they will have to move their old blog to the new one (by 1 April), there might be a flood of complaints when the new adoptees of the new blog realize how bad it is...
For me this is all really tragic: I had 135 issues of my Newsletter on the old blog - it looked and read well. However, the old blog does not even remotely transfer over to the new one...it looks terrible now. Three years of work lost because new software is introduced that is not ready for prime time.
Robert, Thanks for the background info! Let's see if we get any resolution.
BTW if anyone one else reading these comments have similar issues it would helpful to comment show that this is significant issue.
The old blog was slow to load..I received many reports from my readers that it caused their computers to "hang" - and that was usually using Firefox as the browser, though I received reports from others as well.
I am wondering why wix felt the need to introduce a new blog. I think I read somewhere they wanted it to be more accessible to mobile users. Fine, no problem ! But the software the wix folks released as this new blog is so much worse in terms of features, and the ability to edit - that I wonder what is going on at wix? Perhaps they really do not want to support a blog at all...Anyway, I have worked a lot with software since the late 1990s..have a PhD in the sciences...I have never seen anything this bad (the new wix blog). If this was a student project it would get an "F" (for FAIL) from me.
I agree with your basic statement. We have enough to deal with with site design, content management, and building traffic. Dealing with back end issues should not be something we have to worry about. I notices site speed issue on loading the mobile version, and then went to GA to check further. This is my first time using WIX so I don't have a frame of reference for the prior version of the blog. Thanks for corroborating what I have been seeing. Dan
Let's see if anyone responds with something more than, "Why do you want this change?" OR we will call your suggestion to the attention of the wix software developers." These are repeated excuses made by the folks representing wix in this forum. But from a wider perspective: why should any of us who need to use the blog feature, have to go to wix with ideas about how to improve the code (the way their new blog software is currently written) - we just want to use the new blog feature ! In other words, if I want to drive my car (= the wix software), why do I also have to be a mechanic (= software designer/coder) to fix all the problems the wix designers created/never tested?
Yes the new blog (and the old blog) sometimes (meaning at least 75% of the time) take a long time to load via web browsers (in my case Firefox) and frequently "hang" for 1-2 minutes before being fully available to the reader. The problem seems to have worsened slightly with the institution of the new blog...ALSO, try editing the new blog - it takes forever to make easy edits (in my case just one letter - eg., changing "a" to "b" in a line of text) - what seems to be happening is the automatic saving feature saves after each change - and that bogs the entire process that took seconds in the old blog to 1+ minutes in the new blog. Simply put, the new blog sucks. It was not properly tested before being foisted open users. And where are the wix "helpers" here when criticism is leveled at them? They hide. Bottom line: the new blog is awful, terrible, slow - there are not enough words to describe the disaster these folks "designed." Robert DeCandido PhD here in NYC
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