More blog changes

Posted on March 7 2023

We have been upgrading the blog again, largely as a result of requests and comments received.

First, hyperlinks to the glossary have been changed, once more. They now only appear the first time the glossary item comes up in a post. That cuts due down the number of such hyperlinks. I think I will now be leaving  issue alone for the time being.

Second, you will now see there is a blue icon with an access logo on it at the top right corner of the blog. Click on it and you will get this drop down menu:


I suggest to any reader that they might look to look at these options. There are quite a lot of ways to change reading options there, some of which I might choose occasionally because they change the reading experience.

Third, the footer at the end of each post has been changed and now looks like this:

I think that looks better. I changed it because it become clear that not everyone understood the sharing options, so I have highlighted them. I appreciate you using them if you are so inclined.

Finally, there is now a like button at the end of each post and comment. That looks like this:

It goes red if you like the post or comment. This had been set up so that no data is stored on who does so. I cannot and will not use this data.

The heart goes red if you have liked an item. You cannot like it twice, a cookie prevents that.

There is no dislike button: there is ample enough negativity in the world without adding it here.

I hope these changes are useful.

That's enough tinkering for now. I will be returning to the glossary next, when time permits.

My thanks, as usual, to Andy Moyle for managing these changes for me, as well as to those who suggested them.

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12 Responses

  1. Shelagh Jones says:
    March 7 2023 at 9:31 am

    Excellent changes!
    Well done Andy!

  2. Yamini MacLean says:
    March 7 2023 at 11:32 am

    Hari OM
    Richard, I am a long-term reader, and first-time commenter… because this is important. I am a Chromebook (ie Chrome OS) user and would like to alert you that the accessibility plug-in and the polling boxes do not work for me. (The newly added like heart is, though.) It might be worth checking with other Chrome OS users whether they have this issue, or is it just me?

    I will take this chance, since diving in, to thank you and all your regular commenters for all the information and thought-provoking posts. Very much appreciated. I can offer nothing by way of sensible comment at all, but my understanding of economics at national (and international) scale has improved dramatically!
    Regards,
    YAM

  3. Richard Murphy says:
    March 7 2023 at 7:24 pm

    We (well, Andy) have changed the share buttons today so that those who block JavaScript should be be able to use them now. I hope that solves that problem.

  4. Denise Hunter says:
    March 8 2023 at 6:55 am

    Hello, captions or a transcript of any video would be fantastic for those of us that are hard of hearing!

  5. Richard Murphy says:
    March 8 2023 at 8:30 am

    We tried changing the share icons on here yesterday so that those who do not like JavaScript could use them. But, having done so I found the replacements very unreliable and so we are back to the ones that do use c. Sorry, but I guess they have to work for me as I probably use them most.

    • Denise Hunter says:
      March 8 2023 at 8:48 am

      Thanks for trying anyway. If I really can’t figure out what is being said I am lucky enough to be able to ask my teenage daughter to listen for me (when she’s not at college) & I can often figure out the jist of what was said from the comments of others.