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By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:58:30 +0000

@ George – Because you are on the .com/free version of WordPress, I believe that it is much easier for them to release updates or changes, which typically benefits the community. So, fixes may have been made, which no longer allow the particular code you used.

@ tony conrad -Thanks for clearing up the purpose of the feature. It may not have been the fact that other (sometimes unrelated) blogs were shown, but that it was automatically added to the blogs and didn’t allow full control of what sites were shown.

The feature does have a lot of possibilities for many bloggers, as they will possibly be able to get some active readers/visitors from the related posts, blogs that they normally wouldn’t have discovered.

By: tony conrad

tony conrad — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:05:30 +0000

Hi all – very active conversation –

The goal of the new feature is to create opportunities for readers to discover more content that is related to what you’re writing about. We’ve included content from your archives, from other WordPress.com blogs and for Mainstream Media sites (MSM).

Like any technology, we’re making lots (and lots) of tweaks on the fly to get the filters properly tuned. While subjective, we’ve been successful in making these tweaks on a large number of partner sites (www.sphere.com) so I’m hopeful (with a little patience and goodwill), we’ll make improvements as we go along. In the meantime, you’re input is really critical for us to make those improvements, so please keep sending.

Tony

By: George

George — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:26:36 +0000

Yesterday I used a tip from a Wordpress forum to change the CSS for the “Possibly related ” text, so that it made clear that these were chosen by the WP computer, and not endorsed by myself.
This seemed to allow the best of both worlds – part of a linking community, but not getting responsibility for things I didn’t post.
Today that bit of CSS code doesn’t work. Oh well.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 03:36:12 +0000

This is likely one of the top features that bloggers would rather not see on their blog, as they already have the choice of adding similar tools to achieve the same effect.

From one of the blogs I read about this issue, it looks like it may become a part of all WordPress blogs – MU and self-hosted (MU), possibly in a later version.

I guess only time will what happens as a result of this ‘feature’ and how Automattic plans on improving it.

By: Daniel Costalis

Daniel Costalis — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:38:32 +0000

Yeah, I can see where this would be annoying. Essentially, you could spend a lot of time on your blog making it work exactly how you want, and may never even LOOK at the front end of it for a long time. If suddenly my blog changed without my knowing, I’d be pretty pissed. I’ll stick to self-hosted WP blogs.