However, other than the flack they’re getting, I can’t think of a reason compelling enough to WP.com itself to get them to move the stats back. But this, combined with writing posts from WP.com itself, makes blogging here far less emotionally involving, far less easy, far less likely to be actually DONE. I’d love to see stats for how many posts are made before and after each of these changes.

In fact, I’d LOVE to know how many posts were made before and after they took the New Post button off the admin bar. I bet the rate dropped like a stone.

If they understood that web metrics is not a piece of ordinary news but a tool to help us understand blog use patterns.

I know for now we can still post on our Dashboards, even though they took away the shiny big NEW POST button that was damn useful. They also took away the View Blog button.

Why? Why do these things? They already have substantially impacted the number of blog posts each active blogger makes. They will continue to do so to the point where, what the hell, why would anyone blog here?

What kind of company is Automattic anyway? I mean, what do they DO? Weren’t they once a company that made software that people could use to blog with? Now they increasingly appear to be a company that makes software that drives people to the wordpress.com page.

Now they’re moving the stats page too? Why? So we’ll be on their home page instead of our own dashboard? It’s pointless, it’s annoying. It makes me feel manipulated, and that makes me want to dig my heels in just out of spite. So ya know what WordPress? I don’t care. I’m not rewarding your stupidity with traffic to your main page. I don’t know what I’m going to do when they do make the change, but I’ll probably just end up forgetting about WP altogether. Urgh.