Why I left WordPress.com

I have decided to leave my WordPress.com blog. I will not delete it because I believe some information there might still be helpful to some people but I stopped writing on it since the other day.

It’s very frustrating. I blog from China where a huge number of blogs and blogging sites are blocked but because I do looove my WordPress.com blog, I always find a way to access it and update it. I even paid for a proxy site just to update, navigate, access, and manage my WordPress.com blog. Of course it’s not the same like when you are using a free (not blocked) WordPress.com. Using a proxy site still has limitations and this makes me so frustrated when I think of it. I go all these trouble for my WordPress.com blog but WordPress.com doesn’t allow me to benefit from my blog. I mean… what the hell, right!? It’s such a selfish relationship. Bloggers are the ones who build the WordPress.com community and WordPress.com is benefiting so much from its bloggers. Why not reward their bloggers by letting them benefit from being a member of this community? Why not let the bloggers write about sponsored posts. Why not let bloggers display ads? If they fear that splogs would swarm their site, they could at least develop some sort of rules to avoid this.

So anyway, right now I really feel that WordPress.com is being selfish.

Comments

  1. Tot's Mom says:

    Thanks for dropping by my poems blog.
    WP is actually a better blogging platform except the paid post and sponsored ads part. That’s why a lot of bloggers still stick to Blogger I think, although their designs are less attractive.

  2. Vienna says:

    yeah it sucks but it’s too bad becuase my WP.com blog has PR6! and i cannot use it. :(

  3. Hi Vienna!

    Thanks for dropping by ;) We share the same sentiments. Just a week ago I stopped updating my wordpress account, but didn’t delete it as well. I recently bought my own domain so I can earn money from it. My WP has a PR2, it was approved by Smorty. Tuwang-tuwa ako kase I had 4 opps kaagad. Pero yun na nga, umiyak kaagad ang WP. Sobrang nanghinayang ako kase my new account will have to start to step 1 again. Kakainis talaga pero ala ako magawa.

    Anyway, salamat sa pagbisita. I’d like to add you to my blogroll (A Simple Life and moms…..check nyo), I hope you don’t mind ;) Pero mamaya ko na ayusin, I have to attend to my store pa,lol, sumingit lang ako dito ngayon hehe.

    I like your blog and I enjoyed reading your articles ;) Take care.

    regards,
    Liza ;)

  4. Vienna says:

    Hey Lisa, thanks for dropping by too. Promise mo yan ha… pag dumalaw ako sa site mo dapat kasama na ako sa blogroll mo. ;)

  5. MeL says:

    Hi Vienna! Thanks for visiting my blog. I’ve got another blog, please link it, too, including the one you visited a while ago. Thank you. :)

    meledee.sasha-says.com
    femaholic.blogspot.com

  6. Hey Vienna! How are you today? I know we’ve just met… but I tagged you. I hope you’re up to it ;) hehe ang aga ng binyagan… lol. Have a great Friday! TC

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