It is no secret that I am not a fan of the latest version of WordPress. I criticized the Alpha, Beta and production releases. I’ve since discovered that it is broken under OSX 10.5 with the Firefox browser.
Others have had similar issues:
- Canny Granny has had the same graphic upload error message.
- Shelley Powers relates in Wordpress 2.5 releases that she too copped abuse for trying to raise some fairly basic web standards compliance issues.
- Les can’t justify the widget placement design decision, and neither can I.
- Alekz has experienced the same TinyMCE blank popup bug as I, and has documented four other cases of it apart from his and mine.
Speaking to friends at dinner last night (both highly experienced web technology users) there was a lot of surprise at the severity of the design and coding errors.
Sephyroth says WordPress 2.5 - Not coming here soon - he’s looked at the security model and will not upgrade.
So… there is some pain out there without a lot of acknowledgment. Ever on the lookout for new blog ideas, I browsed potential WordPress hate site names. Some of the good ones are taken:
But there are others available - most of them involve some variant of the F word, so I am not touching them 
But there does need to be a record somewhere that this once-great blogging platform has started to go down the tubes owing to zero acknowledgment of issues - stay tuned for more details.
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