Blogs and missing words

Peter I've raised this with M&D previously and I agree it's a real pain in the preverbal. My home computers are fine but my work one is hopeless and from what I can see there is no difference to them.

I used to enjoy reading the Blogs during my lunch break, don't bother anymore because of this persistent problem

cheers
Dunc

Hi Peter,

I have the same problem, on work and home computers. If there is a fix I would like to know about it too.

Cheers

Howard

Hi Peter,
I also suffer this problem on my computer. It does not happen on all blogs but seems to be worst on blogs with more, or larger pictures than those with few pictures. It's very annoying trying to guess missing words. I hope some good comes as a result of this thread.
Cheers,

Same problem here and it's pretty annoying

Hi Peter
Like everyone else here, it is just so annoying. Even my latest Blog has the same issue and I have tried countless things to fix it, but nothing seems to fix the problem.

They only way around it from what I can see that if you have 2 images side by side, then you have a very good chance that the end result will be a complete waste of time.

It was never a problem until there were major changes in the layout of blogs and since then, it has turned to just sh..........

If we all make enough noise, our squeaky wheels might get some action.


Cheers




Stephen

As an avid reader, and contributor of blogs I do find the format quite cumbersome and difficult to present it in a way that makes it interesting for the reader whilst being easy enough to incentivise one to take the time to write something.

I have raised on a number of occasions and I understand EO will have competing priorities for time and funding. But blogs should be the heart and soul of a site like this.

Real life experiences of people travelling this great country of ours, it is great to read of others and encourages me to contribute.

One of my "beefs" is that it is difficult to format in a way that flows well between text and images. It takes a lot of work by a contributor to get to something cohesive.

I like to see the story and accompanying photographs presented like you would expect in a travel magazine, big and bold to draw the reader in.

But I suspect this is what leads to some of the text wrapping that is being highlighted.

Many of the blogs I go to read are far too disjointed as to make it near impossible to follow - the presentation can be off-putting, and this isn't necessarily the fault of the author, but simply the ability to easily format.

Another problem I find is that when you go to edit something the text looses all paragraphing and takes time to correct.

I do use Wordpress.com for my personal blog (thelandy.com) and find it is easy and simple to use and format. And without doubt they have money and resources to throw at it to make it that way.

I don't necessarily look for EO to have the same, but there is room for improvement and hopefully if forthcoming we might see a greater contribution from members which will give us more material to read during our lunch time!

Hopefully this will (again) raise awareness of the problem - as I say, real life stories and contributions from members are one of the things that draws me to EO...

Cheers, Baz - The Landy

I have had a few reads of other peoples blogs and also checked my own and don't have any problems with text missing, or photos...not sure why though.
I am using a laptop and Windows 10..haven't checked on my phone.
regards,
Heather

I have just spent a while on my PC looking through numerous blogs by different members. I have not noticed any missing words, or adds obscuring text. However there are many blogs where the wrapping of text around photos leaves a LOT to be desired, especially when single words or phrases are isolated from the rest of the text - so easy to miss unless reading very carefully. This is particularly so in older blogs posted before the new blog system was introduced.

Like others, we have been regular blog writers and readers in the past, but the new system has taken the edge off that. My particular gripe is the way that line spaces between paragraphs (that make reading large chunks of text soo much easier) disappear either when pasting your prepared text into the blog box, or when editing.

Neither do I like the way the comments and especially follow ups are presented - the old system where they were all visible at the end of the blog was so much better and accessible. And, at least in some cases the back button takes you back a couple of steps instead of just one. None of these are in themselves major issues but they add up to major annoyances, that detract from pleasurable reading.

And my final real dislike is how our older blogs that were carefully set up so they looked reasonably OK are now a scrambled mess of text and photos that look terrible.
Cheers,
Val.

Thank you to everyone for taking the time to reply would be nice if exploroz took the time to fix it as it appears I am not the only one with the issue

peter

...and I thought it was just me!

Robyn :)

The missing words in blogs hasn't really affected me because I wouldn't have read more than 3 or 4 blogs since the "new blog" thingy was removed from top right hand corner of the forum index. My loss of course, but it's a case of out of sight, out of mind.

Hope the issue gets sorted quickly, as I know a lot of you put much time 'n effort into your blogs.

Bob