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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.