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Today at work I was playing with Slideshare, among other web services. And I found something:

     

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Bangs head against wall. Repeatedly.

I don’t care if this is some kind of ready-made code, spurted out from some CMS. It just sucks. Huge time.

Plus, dear Slideshare developers, add a way for me to construct the embed code for a slideshow just by using its URL, please.

slideshare, xhtml, semantic, css, api

To edit a comment, you must click on the author name in the Manage Comments page.

Quite a cryptic way of denoting edit functionality.

Why didn’t they use a simple link, like the Unapprove / Spam ones?

wordpress, wordpress 2.5, admin, theme

Post Categories have been moved down, below Tags.

To complete a post, even in my 24” screen, I have to scroll down, pass all the clutter, select categories, then up again to hit ‘Publish’.

I was not a huge fan of the previous ‘Write’ page, I think it has been improved in many ways, but this particular thing is a usability downgrade.

web design, usability, wordpress 2.5, admin

I don’t consider myself a good designer, but to be bland and bitchy, I don’t like the new Wordpress admin theme.

Reason #1: The clutter.

See what I mean?

wordpress, wordpress 2.5, admin, theme, design, clutter

Warning: ranting ahead.

Face it people: noone gives a damn for you on the ‘nets.

So don’t go around threatening “you’ll leave”. Don’t be a drama queen and announce your nth Internet exit, hoping for “please don’t go” comments. Because guess what: after some days, noone will remember you.

That’s the sacred and damned way of the Internet: you can’t control it. You can’t keep something alive if you don’t update it, reminding to people that hey, you exist.

Services like Facebook, Twitter, blogs, they’re just that: reminders of your online presence to people. So don’t expect someone will care if you stop updating all of a sudden. Because we’ll just go on.

Threatening, suing, being rude, complaining, ranting, it’s all useless. The show will just go on.

Face it, or do us all a favour and stop messing the web with your obnoxious self.