shinsou

Actually nevermind; the problem came back again. And this time, it’s also happening to me when I’m logged off (cleared cookies) and even on other browsers.

Anyone else believe this should be done?

@exper,
Better yet, why doesn’t WordPress just make Post Revisions a plugin?
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Most people probably have no issue with it because they haven’t run into any problems with it, yet. For me, I have. In fact, I didn’t have a pinky of a problem with Post Revisions until I smacked into an error. In case you haven’t noticed, this error was what I’ve been stressing about – that it dropped slow execution errors on me.

A large variety of people’s questions have been resolved because they asked here. Wouldn’t it have been much faster to have just ADDED an option so they wouldn’t need to ask? Or is this another fascade to gain more forum members/posts?

If you ask me, those 200,000+ times are probably from blogs with fairly small posts. Small posts, being a single post which has less than 30+ page scrolls (1 scroll = 3 lines. Starting from the post title to the last word of the post content. And yes, this is a literal example) of content in it. If not, maybe they have ‘much better’ hosts than I. I don’t, literally, use a free host, by the way (dreamhost). If you ask me, better CMS would be to fix any problems a user has that can be fixed or find a way to resolve it. I believe it would be better to at least have a notice on the how-to-turn-off post revisions, if there were no options for it.

Perfect softwares with no options… that can never exist. Why? People have different opinions on what they want. Just want to point that out.

I believe legitimate reasons were stated.
I’ll list it here again:
1. Slows down posting and can causes user to receive an error in the process. Note that not everyone has the freedom to edit the php.ini file to extend execution time. Don’t give us the bullshit of requiring to buy a better web host.

2. Large size. Not everyone has a large database. Think about it – if someone starts to post about 1 post a day and edits it at least 3 times to fix grammatical errors, 3 extra revision posts will be created. Over a period of 30 days, the user will have ~90+ ‘posts’ in their database which aren’t even needed.

To add to the above statement: Backing up your files. What was once ~500 KB for me has been extended to ~1 MB (minus things from StatPress) for a backup. Eradicating the post revisions punched it down to 600 KB. This is of a duration of one week. Only two to three posts were made. As said before, don’t bullshit us. Some people use free hosts as they can’t use a credit card or paypal or whatever. Depending on the features of the host, they might now want to move.

If you ask me, more options aren’t more confusing. That’s just a sorry excuse of saying that you don’t know how to bloody organize your settings. Is that what WordPress is becoming? A sorry excuse? I hope not. I love using WordPress, but that love is deteriorating.

For example, look at Invision Power Board. They have an abundant amount of features that can be toggled. How do they organize that? They make sub-sections. And those sub-sections aren’t really hard to understand – immediately when I see “Forum Control” I know that it’ll allow me to create/remove/reorder/etc forums.

Hi,
Instead of adding that ‘little line’, I basically edited all my files which had ‘revision’ in it – just to permanently turn of post revisions. It’s more dumb, but I’m leaving it as is for now.

Plus, why have this forum if all we ever really needed to do is post in the Trac? To add to it, do we HAVE to go to WP’s forum to find out how to do certain things? It’s like asking a kid to go buy an apple, but stop at an Apple Tree before continuing. Why go and buy an apple when there’s a tree right in front of you? Blatantly I’m trying to say “Why go to a forum to find out something when you can just edit the settings in front of you?” – That is how most people think. Don’t get the wrong idea, I love forums. I just don’t love it when someone tells me to go somewhere else which has a corresponding title (i.e. Requests in a request forum be redirected to a Trac).

And if you ask me, too many features have been added in without the consent of the a variety of members. I demand a poll before something like this. If anything, pick out a few members to use the new features before releasing it. Members, being random ones. Though, some features are good, some like post revisions are pretty much crap to people like me. Literally, is it so hard to ask for an option in the Settings page? What will happen next? Do I have to add a define(‘WP_BLOG_TITLE’, ‘Shinsou\’s Blog’); to my wp-config? Do I have to add a define(‘WP_BLOG_URL’, ‘http://mysite.com’); to my wp-config? Do I have to add a define(‘WP_TEMPLATE_DIRECTORY’, ‘http://mysite.com/wp-content/themes/mytheme/index.php’) to my wp-config? These are all analogies – they aren’t real but I’m just picking on the ludicrousness of what’s happening.

For WordPress 2.5.1, I felt that the current features were solid and good – nothing more was required. Now things like gears and revisions have been slapped in. Do half the people even know what those things are before using it? Sure you’re introducing something new – I don’t mind that – but what I do mind is that if you’re adding a new feature, add a bloody option for disabling it.

Shinsou.