This was posted on the PayPerPost blog earlier today by Ted Murphy:
I have been trying to get the guys over at wordpress.com to embrace our platform and it has been a bit of a uphill battle, though the lines of communication are finally open. The problem is that they seem to think that wordpress.com users are all against PPP and don’t want anything to do with us.
Obviously, we know that not to be the case. Tons of you have left the Wordpress.com platform and moved to your own hosted solution or another platform, the problem is none of you have been vocal enough about it to the Wordpress team. Wouldn’t it have been easier to keep your wordpress.com domain? Are you upset about the move? Do you think that they should allow PPP?
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I’ve blogged about this issue before, here and here. It was my friend Marcus who shared the email with me – after it received it and freaked out because he was left with only a few hours to move his blog. I find it interesting that WordPress has opened up the lines of communication with PayPerPost on this issue, considering the extreme action they took previously. Ted stated that:
The problem is that they seem to think that wordpress.com users are all against PPP and don’t want anything to do with us.
I wonder why WP is considering letting PPP back on their platform? Are they losing THAT many users over it? Did it make them look back? There’s got to a reason that they “re-opened” the lines of communication…and I’m betting it’s not just because Ted is a nice guy. If the powers that be at WordPress really want to know what their users think, why not send out a mass email and ask them? Why leave it up to PPP to find people who want things to change? There just seems something a bit off about the whole situation…and I’m dying for WP to come clean as to the method behind their madness.
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They lost me over that fact. Luckily I hadn’t posted a PPP post, but I had signed up my wordpress.com at PPP. I ended up spending money I really didn’t want to spend on a domain and hosting.
I posted at wp and got an email back from Mark at wordpress.
I don’t see why Ted is making a big deal of this because he is the one who said that it will be better if we all have our own domains any how. I mean, why would a blog with a wordpress domain be better than a blogspot domain? If Ted wants wordpress users to be more vocal, then he needs to also let advertisers know that a blog on its own domain is no less than a blogspot blog.
I think I need to leave this comment elsewhere.
Do you really think that WP gives a flip whether PPP people are part of their blogging platform or not? I’m guessing here, but my bet is that PPP opened up the communication for WP to let PPP people back on. I think WP gains very little from adding PPP users. However, PPP gets a big win if PPP users are allowed on WP. I’ll admit I’m wrong if shown otherwise, but I don’t think it was WP coming to PPP like you describe. In fact, Wordpress.com has been described as just an incredible test environment for the development of the open source Wordpress.
mrscrumley,
Using Wordpress.com vs. blogspot is like mercedes vs. Pinto. Blogspot’s playing catchup and doing some ok things, but there are a pile of reasons why Wordpress.com is better than blogspot.
Wordpress is setting up their own blog ad platforms soon so maybe they are going to try and work everything in to the financial benefit of themselves.
I didn’t mean to imply it was WP ’s idea…I am quite sure it was PPP behind it, but they are obviously communicating with PPP about it to some extent.
I am glad you blogged about it. It makes little sense to me to send private support meails. Blogging is a platform that allows the full spectrum of discussion with a public record.
OUCH! The black text on the bright red background is hurting my eyes. I can’t read this!
Anyway, I think that Wordpress should do what they want to do. They’re giving you a free blog. If you don’t like the rules, don’t use the service.
That’s all I can write because my eyes are actually watering from looking at this red and trying to read the text.
Feel free to click over to the PPP blog and read it there it my design is so painful. :eyeroll:
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