Comments on: ppp may be allowed at wordpress?

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 17:03:46 +0000

Feel free to click over to the PPP blog and read it there it my design is so painful. :eyeroll:

By: nicholi

nicholi — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:49:17 +0000

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.

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:44:47 +0000

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.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:07:33 +0000

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.

By: suni

suni — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:53:02 +0000

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.

By: techie

techie — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:43:11 +0000

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.

By: mrscrumley

mrscrumley — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:23:41 +0000

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.

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 20:47:17 +0000

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.