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I used to really enjoy reading the Paizo Blog.
Now, and for some time, every post is hidden behind a "Show Post" button and only gives a little bit of the top of the post, so it's impossible to tell whether I want to look at something or not except by what product line it is in.
I miss when all the posts were just visible on the same page and I could just scroll to the bottom and click for an older month of posts. I realize this change to using post previews was probably done for some reason, but I'd like to suggest a "Show All Posts" button to restore the ability to scroll and skim the blog without having to expand each individual topic.
As it is right now, I mostly don't read the blog anymore because it's cumbersome and I spend most of the time clicking "Show Post" on things I am not that interested in, because I can't tell if I care or not until I do so.
A "Show All Posts" button would seem to allow for the best of both worlds. For people who benefit from having a preview, they'd still get their preview, but for those of us who would prefer to scroll down through the full text, stopping when something seems to warrant it, a "Show All Posts" button/link would enable the preferred alternate method.
A related suggestion would be to add a series of check boxes at the top so posts of various types could be filtered out. I have no interest in the Adventure Card Game, for instance, so would hide blog posts about that for easier reading of stuff that I do want to read.
Anyway, I'm sure there are reasons why both of these suggestions are bad ideas, but as it is, I end-up relying on Google search more to find stuff on paizo.com than I do browsing or the internal search. A few changes would vastly improve my user experience, and I doubt I'm the only one.
Thank you for reading this. I hope it proves valuable feedback.
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Thank you for the feedback! We think the blog display really needs some love too. I'll add these to our list of suggestions when we start officially hashing out what we'd like to see here :)