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Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by detaro on Sunday April 03, 2022 @10:20AM (#30897116)
> Traffic limits will only be enforced on the honor system. If you consistently go over the cap month after month, we will let you know and ask you to pay a tiny bit more to cover the cost

That really needs to be transparent. Right after Vimeo's mess with this is a bad time to introduce vague language around this, and people will assume you mean "force upgrade to thousands-of-dollars enterprise plan".

Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by startlaunch on Sunday April 03, 2022 @10:27AM (#30897170)
Yep. On it. We will have a post up on https://wordpress.com/blog/ by end of day today.
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by startlaunch on Sunday April 03, 2022 @08:06PM (#30902075)
As some of you suspected, getting an official blog post drafted and reviewed by those working on this project and by our legal department ended up being challenging on a Sunday. As a result, we didn't get a blog post shared today.

We did however publish an update on our support forums, which you can find here: https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/pricing-feedback/

I will circle back to this thread with additional updates as they are shared publicly.

Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by scgtrp on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:16AM (#30897541)
Why there, and not on the pricing page?
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by simcop2387 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:43AM (#30897755)
I imagine that takes longer to update than making a blog post. So quicker to scramble with on the weekend while they clarify everywhere else.
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by scgtrp on Sunday April 03, 2022 @12:33PM (#30898116)
It's... a wordpress site. You can just go edit pages. They even have a nice easy web UI for it.
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by karpierz on Sunday April 03, 2022 @01:02PM (#30898460)
They don't mean that it's technically difficult, they mean that the language on the pricing page has legal consequences, and they need to be precise with their updates to that page.
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by scgtrp on Sunday April 03, 2022 @01:14PM (#30898582)
Or, in other words, "we want to make reassuring promises to make the bad PR stop, but in a way that carries minimal legal weight".

That is not as reassuring as people seem to think it is.

Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by zrobotics on Sunday April 03, 2022 @02:09PM (#30899204)
Or "It's Sunday, and legal is unavailable, so for right now we're putting out a blog post and we'll update the pricing page early next week."

Plus, if the pricing changes per-location as stated, that's significantly more complicated, and not something that can be done in a few hours over the weekend. I'm inclined to cut them some slack, I felt the response posted upthread was OK. Has noone else worked with legacy systems? The large number of pricing plans being rolled out haphazardly over years is very believable to me, my current company had a pricing option buried deep in the site that nobody even remembered existed anymore, customer service actually brought that to my attention after a unrelated change broke billing for those customers.

That being said, if the changes proposed aren't updated on the pricing page by Tuesday, then it's safe to assume this is all meaningless PR fluff.

Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by iratewizard on Sunday April 03, 2022 @02:16PM (#30899266)
This comment thread is the core of what's wrong with nu-HN. The loudest and least informed are the quickest to make a comment and collect internet points. If you need a dopamine fix go to reddit.
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by adampk on Sunday April 03, 2022 @05:11PM (#30900703)
Preach!
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by hiitechk on Sunday April 03, 2022 @02:07PM (#30899198)
I don't think you are being realistic with this thought-process.
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by rexreed on Sunday April 03, 2022 @03:48PM (#30899976)
I'm a Vimeo Premium customer and I seem to have missed the pricing mess -- can you fwd a link? I've been getting anxious about our Vimeo paid subscription.
Re:What are you doing, WordPress.com? by lolinder on Sunday April 03, 2022 @04:44PM (#30900462)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30743371

Here's the last discussion I read, there's a link from dang to another, related thread.

(Disclaimer: I'm not a Vimeo user, so I'm not in a position to know if the whole thing was overblown or not.)