The mouse ran up the clock...

[ 22nd December UPDATE
The heart of blipfoto has gone. This so called "upgrade" was rolled out before Christmas (it should have been left until the New Year) when most of us have more than enough on our plates. It has been badly thought out and executed and has ripped the soul out of blipfoto.
So far I have not found one improvement on blipfoto.
The dark grey background and the original choice of white typeface was perfect for me. The new layout has vast expanses of white which wrecks my eyes and makes it hard to see. The new type face is very very thin and small and is so hard to read. When I make the page on my device larger so I can read it, I still cannot because it is so thin.
I have Sjogrens Syndrome which includes dry eyes. And the new blipfoto set up is absolutely no good for me and aggravates my condition. It seems to me blipfoto have not even remotely considered people with poor eyesight/eye problems.
There are so many bugs in the new system, I do not know where to start. I have mentioned some stuff on their so called zendesk questions. So I am not going to bore you with them here, you will all have read enough about them by now. It does mean, that instead of the pleasurable experience of before where it was easy to do, write and make a blip post that there are so many problems now that I end up having to figure out what went wrong, and the next thing I know I have spent a couple of hours instead of a few minutes...just to do a post and try to send feedback on what went wrong etc.
The main thing is that the original sense of community has gone. navigating round the site does not have continuity any more...the flow has gone. I didn't intend making this UPDATE postscript this long.
I did persevere after the upgrade, and carried on posting, even though my initial reaction when I saw and navigated the new site was...I don't know, I can't even describe it...a loss...i couldn't find my favourite people easily...a bewilderment...the site is not intuitive now...something had been taken away from me with this upgrade...I saw the word 'grief' mentioned on some posts, and then I realised that was how I was feeling. I am sad.
I deleted a few earlier important posts to me, on blipfoto, in June, July and August 2014, because they were a part of what is happening in my private life. It was the beginning of something beautiful, as was my friendships I began to make on blipfoto. Strangely that same stuff in my private life has had a difficult time too, dynamics and stuff has changed. It is not the end, just like it is not the end of blipfoto, but I grieve for what was.
I don't know if I am coming back to blipfoto yet. I don't know if anyone will read this...probably not because I cannot bring myself to make a new post so I am adding this to my last post and my profile.
gennepher ]


Well, I don't think my computer mouse did...but I was looking for more choccies to work on my laptop today. My friend normally gives me chocolate and I tell her off each year.
Well the presents all looked the wrong shape for chocolates...this very long one had some potential, so I opened it. It was a tin with Big Ben on it and inside were...2 boxes of After Eights!
So I have been working on my laptop today righting its wrongs and fuelling myself with After Eights!

I am not a happy bunny here. Blipfoto put my 17th December post in for today and took it out of 17th December where it has been actually posted on 17th December and had moved it to 21st DecemberSo when I posted today's post it wouldn't post, didn't give me any info why. I lost the words I has done for today's post and the picture that had uploaded. Then when I figured it all out I had wasted time and energy and I am not in a good mood now. I finally restored the 17th December post back to the 17th, where it had no business migrating from, when I worked out what had happened. And had to re do today's post....the air is a little blue here...