I’m tired of being ripped off

/ MR

This was the latest item in a seemingly unending line of statements from suppliers about escalating prices:

Your WordPress

I’m not going to cough up that amount, any more than I’m going to put up with Microsoft’s appalling greed – with regard to which I shall forego Outlook in divesting myself of Office 365 and Edge and use Firefox and Thunderbird, as my sister tells me the latter can now have a calendar added.

With regard to Automattic’s cash-grab, I shall cease this blog. It didn’t do much, anyway.

26 thoughts on “I’m tired of being ripped off”

  1. You’ll be missed, but I understand. I recently got into it with WP about something regarding an old post or a supposedly free theme or something. I’ve already forgotten what it was all about but for sure WP is not what it once was and hasn’t been for a long time. It’s well nigh too complex for me to deal with anymore.

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    • And I haven’t even bothered to approach their Support people, as everything has changed to the extent that I can’t even begin to use it.

      Been paying for nothing, basically.

      Just leaving this post here for a bit, so as to apprise people.

      Thank-you, Colorado !!! 🙂

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    • Seems I can’t post a reply on my own website !!

      WTF ???

      And now I find I can be notified of new posts here !!! — yippee ! Oh, hang on …

      😦

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      • I do have things like that happen ie having to sign in to my own blog to comment and it has infuriated me but it might be a side effect of the increasing complexities involved in keeping things secure? When you think about it – they have a product that has to work on multiple browsers with different version levels (because not everyone keeps their systems up to date) on different computers and devices with different versions of different operating systems. I can’t help thinking that this is tough stuff to make work even for professionals?

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      • I use Chrome browser and Gmail. I don’t recall paying for either, although things have gotten so complicated these days that I can’t say for sure.

        I do encounter times when WP tells me I have to log in when I thought I was already logged in. I finally figured out that in addition to the WP login I set up originally, there’s also a Google log-in. You may have noticed there are many sites where you can click to login with your Google password. Apparently at some point I did that to log in to WP, so now WP thinks I have two different logins which access different pages (posts, admin, comments, pages, etc.) on my website. I don’t know how to fix it, but if one login doesn’t work, the other one does.

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        • Definitely a kind of insanity, Colorado. 😦

          I had thought of using Google for everything instead of Microsoft, but recalled that the sort of problem you mention is rife within the Google empire.

          So I mean to use Firefox and Thunderbird, but first I have to work out what email address is going to cause the least problems. I will definitely miss the simplicity of Outlook, and MS punishes me by making all my email files (.pst) unusable. What a good thing that Michael has ghosted me …

          Oh, and using Libre Office (free !) rather than Microsoft’s Office 365 (growing more costly every year) is a marvellous thing: my extant files all shift over without anything horrible happening !

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  2. You can do a free WordPress blog MR. I pay a small amount for mine to be ad free and have my own domain name. But I manage two group WordPress blogs for which we pay nothing. Ads appear at the bottom of some posts but that’s it. The functionality is the same as mine.

    I would miss you!

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  3. Uh, weird. M-R, at the moment that blue link in your post shows me a screen from my computer, not something you got from WP. Dunno if I’ve done something or the link is wrong or what. Maybe I’ll figure out what I’ve done; maybe not. Probably not.

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    • It’s not you, Colorado – it’s at my end. I’m in the process of eliminating everything Microsoft from my laptop, and changing browsers from Edge to Firefox was just the beginning. It’s thrown everything WordPress into confusion – no idea why.

      I’m not logged in to my own site, and I’m required to do so every time I try to respond.

      “Leave a reply (log in optional)”

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  4. I admire your courage. I’ve messed up so many things while trying to fix so many other things that I’m almost afraid to do anything anymore.

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  5. I am seeing prices go up at the grocery store again, M-R. The expensive lactose-free butter that I buy – two sticks for $4.99 American dollars – is now $5.29 ($8.10 in your dollars). I told my friend I will be going back to using regular butter and not worry if there are any untold sound effects afterward.

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