Last post on this, thankfully. I already mentioned this on Twitter, but it was o-dark-thirty so it’s possible even the people who follow me on there missed it, let alone those of my readers who don’t follow my Twitter account. As you might expect, WordPress received no small number of complaints from people who were upset that the “Follow comments by email” checkbox was now on by default. They’ve posted an update on their blog article about it, and have reversed their decision. The checkbox is now off by default once more, as it should be. So now you’ll only be subscribed to receive emails for every comment on a thread if you check the box yourself — which is to say, if you say you want to, instead of someone else deciding for you.
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Excellent news! Thanks for posting about this — I’d be completely in the dark, otherwise.
Yeah, they haven’t exactly been forthcoming about any of this to people who aren’t regularly watching WordPress’s own blog. Considering most bloggers probably don’t, and yet everybody is affected by it, they should have been sending out emails about these changes to everybody affected. Certainly the whole concept indicates they’re not shy about sending emails…
Smells like… Victory.
And napalm wasn’t even necessary!
GOOD! And it’s even better that they listened to their users.
Yes, especially since it seemed like they weren’t going to for a while there.