My Stats pages (on both blogs) have disappeared, all I get when I click on them are mangled pages but no stats. It’s either a punishment aimed solely at me for calling WordPress a pile of shite and a set of tossers this morning, or they’ve finally done what they’ve been saying for ages they were going to do and moved the Stats to that stupid separate page along with the Freshly Pressed shite and the shitey Readers that don’t work and the fucked-up Topics thing that doesn’t work either.
I don’t understand why they’ve done it. Why move the stats away from the Dashboard? It’s the same as taking the mileometer from a car’s dashboard and putting it in the boot, forcing the driver to get out and walk round the back of the car whenever he wants to see how fast he’s going. IT’S FUCKING STUPID. It’s the stupidest idea the stupid ideas people have had since they had the stupid idea of shagging up the Topics.
I am not amused.
Notes From A She-Hermit ©™® 
Victor Tookes
/ July 9, 2012WordPress.com is blocked from my work. My domain was not. I used to be able to get to my stats, not I can’t. Im also annoyed.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Victor,
They said months ago they were going to do it, I did a post about it and left a comment on their shitey blog. This is the post I did –
https://dottyheadbanger.wordpress.com/2012/01/27/soss-save-our-site-stats/
Love Dotty xxx
Phil
/ July 9, 2012I just love it when you rant! And of course, you’re right. Probably some techie guy saying, “hey, wouldn’t it be cool if we…” all of course, without actually checking to see if anyone who actually uses the damn program might think it would cool or, as you’ve said, maybe just a fucking shitey idea. Maybe we can join forces. What, with all your page hits, and my ten’s of … er… tens of page hits, we can strike the fear of … er… well who cares! I just want to hit someone with a spitball – when they’re not looking.
Rant on dear Dotty.
Phil
/ July 9, 2012Oy, my grammar sucks this day. Off to drink another cup of coffee.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Phil,
I put a link in my reply to Victor to the post I did at the end of January when I first read about it. They’re a set of fuckers. I’m going to look for another page where I can complain about it.
Love Dotty xxx
Phil
/ July 9, 2012Dear Dotty,
I honestly think they do crap like this to force more page clicks, pretending to have more traffic.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Phil,
I think you’re right, but all these changes will do is make people go elsewhere.
I’ve just looked at the comment I made back in January – I told them then it was a stupid idea and so did loads of other people.
Love Dotty xxx
misfits' miscellany
/ July 9, 2012It’s only you. Consider yourself persecuted.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Misfit,
Aha! It isn’t only me.
Love Dotty xxx
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Misfit,
Are yours still working?
Love Dotty xxx
misfits' miscellany
/ July 9, 2012They are.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Misfit,
Hmmm. That’s weird.
Love Dotty xxx
Andy Parkinson
/ July 9, 2012not to put too fine a point on it!
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Andy,
Have yours gone too?
Love Dotty xxx
Andy Parkinson
/ July 9, 2012Yes they have! when i click on the graph for today I get a secondary image of my graph summary rather than details of what’s being going on.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Andy,
My graph doesn’t work at all, it just takes me to the Dashboard. Someone’s started a thread complaining about it on the forum.
http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/stats-details-not-showing?replies=13
Love Dotty xxx
Smaktakula
/ July 9, 2012I’d say it’s that they did what they said they would. I’ve been saying nasty things about WP for ages.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Smak,
I know, but it’s been so long since they said it I thought they’d come to the conclusion it was a bad idea after the amount of comments they received in opposition to it.
It’s been a while since I complained about them (before this morning).
Love Dotty xxx
Fish Out of Water
/ July 9, 2012It’s changed for me too and it sucks balls.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Fishy,
I’m sick of the way they don’t listen to what people want – no one wanted the Topics to change either but they went ahead and did it. Yes, WordPress is the best of the blogging places but they’re ruining everything that was good about it. If someone knows of a better blog host, I’m off.
Love Dotty xxx
Fish Out of Water
/ July 9, 2012I got my stats thing back. Did you? My reader is still all messed up and it has me following blogs I’ve unfollowed and not following blogs I want to follow. That has always been screwy.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Fishy,
Are your stats back in your Dashboard or can you only access them from the WordPress page where the Reader and Freshly Pressed tabs are?
My Reader does the same. I’ve just had to unfollow then re-follow Christine because I wasn’t getting post notifications in my email. Everything used to work fine until they started messing around with it.
Love Dotty xxx
judithatwood
/ July 9, 2012Dear Dotty,
First, make sure that you are logged in — if you aren’t, you’ll go straight to WordPress.com, and get Freshly Pressed, or some other format of blogs you don’t care about. If you are logged in, have you tried the W in the upper left of the screen — you’ll find a drop-down menu, with stats one of the choices.
I hope this helps!
Love,
Judith
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 9, 2012Dear Judith,
Thank you. All the links to the stats page take me to the new wordpress.com/my stats page instead of the dottyheadbangerwordpress page they used to be on, so my stats page is totally separate from my Dashboard and the Comments section. It’s rubbish.
Love Dotty xxx
Mondrak
/ July 9, 2012You have a great way with words 😉
Mine are still on the same page as I have had (I think)
My other blog is the same. Although that one has had a total of nine views in three months lol. I don’t think it would notice if they moved haha
Like most places though, it is a case of “it’s not broke, let’s fix till it is broke”
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 10, 2012Dear Mondrak,
My other blog is the same as yours – it started off okay but now it echoes. HAALLLOOOOOOO – IS ANYBODY THERE? 🙂
I think all the stats will move in time. It’s annoying.
Love Dotty xxx
PAZ
/ July 9, 2012Dear Dotty,
The shagging of the Topics page really got to me. As far as the Stats page, I don’t know what to tell ya. 😦
Love xoxoxxx
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 10, 2012Dear PAZ,
It’s a balls-up.
Love Dotty xxx
Daniel
/ July 9, 2012Dear Dotty. I have always accessed my (unimpressive) stats by clicking on the graphic display at the top of my blog, and today that still works. However there’s an ominous message on my stats page which says this: ‘Starting soon, your stats page will be on the WordPress.com homepage only.’ I don’t know what this means but I imagine we will all be affected eventually. Daniel xxx
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 10, 2012Dear Daniel,
I had that message too, for months, and now it’s happened. I don’t like it.
Love Dotty xxx
The Depressed Moose
/ July 10, 2012Dear Dotty,
Sometimes I wish you would just say what you mean :0)
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 10, 2012Dear Garry,
🙂
Love Dotty xxx
free penny press
/ July 10, 2012Well I guess when it’s a free blogging site we take the good, the bad and the ugly!!!
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 10, 2012Dear fpp,
I know – I just like to moan. But I still think they should listen to what everyone says – they obviously make a lot of money out of the fact that we’ve all chosen them as blog hosts.
Love Dotty xxx
free penny press
/ July 10, 2012Agree Miss Dotty…:-)
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 10, 2012Dear fpp,
🙂
Love Dotty xxx
robincoyle
/ July 10, 2012Hmmm . . . my stats page (whatever it is called) is still there.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 10, 2012Dear Robin,
On your Dashboard?
Love Dotty xxx
rachelmiller1511
/ July 10, 2012Mine wasn’t working either.
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 10, 2012Dear Rachel,
Has it moved to the new place?
Love Dotty xxx
rachelmiller1511
/ July 10, 2012Mine’s working now :). I reckon they were fiddling about with it and cocked it up!
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 10, 2012Dear Rachel,
Mine’s still shagged.
Love Dotty xxx
pouringmyartout
/ July 14, 2012They keep messing with stuff. Instead of ‘go to older posts’, I now have a ‘load more posts’ button. What the hell is that? And everything is super slow now. Arrrggghhh…
Dotty Headbanger
/ July 15, 2012Dear pmao,
They’re fuckers.
Love Dotty xxx
pouringmyartout
/ July 15, 2012Exactly…