4 porches in the rain • click to embiggen Yesterday, my ire, which was directed at SquareSpace, stemmed from the fact that the upgrade caught me entirely by surprise. To be fair to SS, they had posted an announcement somewhere in what, to me, are the bowels of the Administration section of the blog software - a place that I visit rather infrequently. There really is no need for me to go there on any kind of regular basis. Even if I had visited that section, found the upgrade notice, and click through to read it, what I would have found was a typical PR/sales piece about how great things are along with a long list of new and improved features - something that I may have glanced at but not really paid a lot of attention to. As far as I am concerned, The Landscapist is chugging along just fine, thank you, and I don't really have any plans to change anything at the moment so all of the swell new stuff just doesn't matter to me at all. At the very bottom of the announcement was this little bit: As always, clear your browser caches to ensure you receive the updated code. If you experience problems (and there will be some small problems!) — please write in immediately. Of all of the info on the announcement, this bit is all I care about. One would think that this little bit would be the first thing on the announcement, in bold type, maybe screaming red in color. One would think that an email blast to every SS subscriber might be in order. One ...
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4 porches in the rain • click to embiggen Yesterday, my ire, which was directed at SquareSpace, stemmed from the fact that the upgrade caught me entirely by surprise. To be fair to SS, they had posted an announcement somewhere in what, to me, are the bowels of the Administration section of the blog software - a place that I visit rather infrequently. There really is no need for me to go there on any kind of regular basis. Even if I had visited that section, found the upgrade notice, and click through to read it, what I would have found was a typical PR/sales piece about how great things are along with a long list of new and improved features - something that I may have glanced at but not really paid a lot of attention to. As far as I am concerned, The Landscapist is chugging along just fine, thank you, and I don't really have any plans to change anything at the moment so all of the swell new stuff just doesn't matter to me at all. At the very bottom of the announcement was this little bit: As always, clear your browser caches to ensure you receive the updated code. If you experience problems (and there will be some small problems!) — please write in immediately. Of all of the info on the announcement, this bit is all I care about. One would think that this little bit would be the first thing on the announcement, in bold type, maybe screaming red in color. One would think that an email blast to every SS subscriber might be in order. One ...