madcap

It’s a FIVE file upgrade. It takes 2 minutes, 1 whole minute to unzip the files, (if youre intellectually challenged) and one minute to upload the files (if youre on a dialup). For fuck sake, what is the fricken problem with the whiners?

Whoa, whooami, talk about a big bucket of cold water on the warm feelings I have for WordPress.

In my post, I offered a friendly suggestion, and noted it as such: if there is a choice between more and less frequent upgrades, I opt for the latter—or, perhaps, there could be the option of turning off the “upgrade available” notices if the upgrade isn’t something we feel we need.

Does that warrant being cursed out by you?

I know that the upgrade to prevent someone reading one’s drafts was 2.3.2. and not 2.3.3. That’s why I used that example. It spoke to my point and, I thought, was obviously tongue-in-cheek. (I acknowledge, however, that I did refer to the “security issue” as a “bug,” and I will try very hard from here on out never to use the term “bug” to describe a “security issue” again.)

When I click on the “upgrade available” link in my control panel, it takes me to the WP download page, which does NOT contain any sort of information describing what, in fact, this latest upgrade actually does.

Perhaps others are born knowing that,

“in this thread. [you] mimic’d almost verbatim whats on the developers blog, here:

http://wordpress.org/development/

where, guess, what, they tell you what was changed, and even link to trac tickets.

but I have no such congenital knowledge. And, in fact, that you mimicked something on a thread somewhere doesn’t mean that there is an explanation of the upgrade on the download page anyway.

But I was hardly “whining.” As I said, in my post, “In any case, WordPress is not only awesome, it’s free, so please take this only as a friendly suggestion, and thanks for a great product and all y’all’s hard work.”

Incidentally, I have no problem ftp-ing files between any of the dozen or so domains I run sites on, I haven’t used AOL since 1997, and I actually leave in WordPress links and attributions where I use it.

Craig