Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com?
by panicpanicpanic on Sunday April 03, 2022 @07:56AM
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Free is never free but why does free have to go from quite non-shitty to shitty overnight for no discernible reason? The point is here that "just here to blog" bloggers like me have been able to pay WP to have a custom domain, some storage, some SEO and some SM tools managed by WP – and nothing else. But now, to point a custom domain at my WP site, I need to cough up $180/yr. It's not just the free plan shrinking further, a fact you're commenting on, but that the sole alternative plan lies at the other extreme.
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com?
by chiefalchemist on Sunday April 03, 2022 @12:18PM
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Not to worry, I'm not defending Automattic. I do some WP dev. I see how things tilt.
But. Again. This isn't the first time a free / low cost offering has changed.
So WP .com changed a bunch of stuff and there was no warning? What world are we living in where that's wise? And acceptable?
That said, if you don't use a domain you own and control then you're going to be a victim to nonsense like this. And while I understand everyone wants something for nothing, free is never free. If more people took the time to understand the hidden cost there would be less victim'ing.