[wp-testers] AW: Write Page

[Michael Bazeley]

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> I mean if I'm in the write post section why would I even be thinking about
> managing any of those things?  My current thoughts are on making a POST,
> thus I want to see the options and selections for making the post, why
> make
> the user have to scroll to make these selections when you have this whole
> sidebar area on the right that could be utilized for efficiency?  Just
> because it's open source doesn't mean you have to make it like pulling
> teeth.  We are your users, we are your testers, and we are trying to help
> you develop this to be user friendly, and the current horizontal design is
> not user friendly.  In fact I haven't seen a single post praising the
> design
> of the page we are discussing, all I have read are suggestions for
> improving
> it.
>

Obviously, the discussion around this is not going to stop 2.5 or provoke a
change soon, if ever. And I imagine that some people would like the
discussion to just go away so they can focus on the outstanding bugs. Fair
enough. But I have to agree that moving the categories box downpage and
replacing it with non-post-related links jumped out at me immediately when I
first used 2.5. I've been using it daily for a couple of weeks now, and I'm
still annoyed by it (despite Matt prediction). I suppose what a lot of the
critics of this change want to know is WHY change. And I think that goes
beyond just saying that Happy Cog knows what it's doing and did lots of
testing. What's the logic behind the change? Because it really feels like an
inefficient and illogical use of that important page's space.

Cheers,

Michael