There are a few glitches on the blog that I hope will be ironed out in the next few days. You may or may not have noticed them (some are very minor, fortunately).

One involves the strange disappearance of that checkbox in the comments, where you could check it if you wanted your name and email information to be saved so you didn’t have to fill them out each time you commented. If you had already checked it before its odd disappearance, the information may be saved (mine is, for example, at least on my computer). But apparently—at least for some people—that box is gone.

Let me know what’s going on for you, and on what browser and what device if there are differences.

It seems that, even without the checkbox, if you start typing in the lines where the name and email address go, there’s a drop-down menu that gives you the options you need. That’s not too bad. But still, it would be better if it just auto-filled.

Then to top it all off, I got a notice on WordPress today that pretty soon they will be changing to an entirely new interface for blog post writing. Great (NOT!!). Change like that is usually bad, in my experience—and I’ve had a lot of experience. Forced change is even worse (do you hear me, Yahoo Mail? YouTube?). I keep trying to retain the so-called “classic” versions of things, but sometimes (often, actually) the sites keep slyly switching me to the new one, and I have to hunt and hunt for the magic location of the magic button that will get me back to the old.

Sometimes the old is completely eliminated. But sometimes they just try to drive you crazy looking for it. They are versatile little foxes.

WordPress swears that there is a plugin that will override their new system (the new one’s called “Gutenberg”; they must think it’s quite revolutionary) and restore “classic.” We’ll see. I hope.

In the meantime, reviews of Gutenberg have filled me with dread. Horrible, horrible!