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Am I the only one annoyed with no nav bar?
Posted by scenexg • 9/28/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: annoying, blogspot, nav bar
I find I get irrationally irritated when I'm hitting "next blog" on blogger and I reach a page that took away the nav bar. I did this with my last blog and refuse to do it with my current blog because I realize how annoying it can be. I understand it is a way to eliminate one less way off of your page, and seemingly will make people take that extra second to see what you are about, but I feel like this puts me in some kind of weird contract. I feel like I'm dealing with a salesman who locks the door after entering his office. Please, allow me a quicker way out.
Also, I find that even when you hit back and then next blog again, you get 2 new blogs, then end up right back and the same nav-less blog!!
Its simply frustrating the cereal out of me!
I just needed to vent.
Am I the only one??
User Comments
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Every time I hit "next", I get a blog that's written in Spanish. Does that happen to you too? I feel your pain!-
Yessssss!! It also annoys the hell out of me. I never get it. I get plenty spanish and arabic blogs lol.
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فما هي المشكلة في ذلك؟ -
Dammit Friday! *grabs chainsaw*
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あおい、あい、おおい、いえ、いいえ！
lol
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Ke les pasa? ke hay de malo con los blogs en espanol?
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And it's not that I don't mind other languages popping up, but is there an option to switch to English? They should make a better user friendly nav bar. Oh, by the way, I love your blog - reading it now. Good stuff and especially from a fellow NYer!
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Yeah I was wondering the same. Having the language option would make things so much easier.
Thanks for the compliments. I'm glad you like! I can't wait to get to make tonights post. I'm getting to know some pretty cool people around the community here. Trying to make my blog feel more at home for them too. I'm actually including a BC user i met today in tonights post.
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Good luck with it and have fun! When I first started blogging it was so exciting. Sometimes you get burnt out a touch from it, but if you have a passion for expressing yourself, which I see you do, you'll never grow old from blogging. Keep up the great work! I'm a fan!
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Thanks mucho. I love writing. I've actually been doing this for years but I'm a very *hit refresh* and start over person. This one is by far my fav because I finally stopped thinking and just let it all come out. I love it. You keep it up as well. I'm feeling your blog. I LOVE LOVE life blogs. I think other peoples lives and interactions are far more interesting than most informative blogs. I'll google or read the news but I cruise blogs for entertainment quality. Great job miss.
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Actually polybore removed their nav bar just the other day. Had to really because the search function was not working properly.
Never had many visitors via the nav bar but 90% or so of polybore's visitors come from google and the like and they often use the search on the nav bar. Obviously polybore does not want them to get a false nill return on a search (which is what was happening).
So the nav bar had to go, until it gets fixed anyway.
Actually the nav bar search problem seems to be effecting a number of blogger users so it might be worth checking to see if you are effected.
Wrote a post about it which includes a link to google where you can give them your blog URL if it is effected. Because it is relevant hope noone minds polybore including a link to the post, www.polybore.co.uk/2009/09/blogger-nav-bar-search-not-working.html-
Ahh I see. Most people who go to back posts on my blog usually just go through the archives, so I don't mind it much. I just hate that feel of being locked in.
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crazyTsu is wondering why polybore refers to him/herself as polybore instead of I and me -
Apparently, it's third person Monday but only polybore got the memo.
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I'm with you. I stopped using the nav bar to visit other blogs for that very reason.-
Yep.. the same story here
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The nav. bar just seem to be random blogs; blogs that I more then likely I'm not going to be even to enjoy reading.
That's why I use people profiles to find blogs that I would be interested in reading. If you fill out thing like location, interest, favorite music, etc on your blogger profile then those things become clickable and you can find other people (and their blogs) with simular interest.
Or if there is a blog you like you can check out their profile and click on some of their interest to find people (and their blogs) with similar interest.
I should add that my blog would be one of those without the nav. bar.-
that's good too. I do that as well, but sometimes you find some pretty great stuff when you just go at random and stumble upon something.
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I use different layouts - so with some layouts, the bar is removed - and with other layouts the bar is alive and well. -
I used to use nav bar to visit other blogs but I soon found out that it was useless. I could only browse through a few blogs and then it felt as if they were in a loop. -
I think that blogs that don't feature the nav bar should not be in the rotation.-
Agreed!
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Fair enough.
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I think that's the way it was meant to be? I sort of assumed it's an unfixed bug
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