Your complaints are actually quite common. First, the process of getting the email confirmation for your blog on WordPress.com is handled automatically, conference or not. So if you didn’t get an email, it is highly possible your email address might have been misspelled or something, which I’ve done enough times to know is possible.

Did you ask in the WordPress.com Support Forums? Those are open. It’s the Feedback support that is closed on weekends as the number of support requests on weekends does not currently support the staff required.

As for the Snap Preview issue, I am not on the staff nor get special treatment for my WordPress.com blog. Why would they let me know before anyone else? I found out because someone told me it was activated and a few hours later, WordPress.com made the official announcement letting everyone know. Yes, it would have been nice to announce then activate the thing, but they activated, tested, then announced. They really thought the WordPress.com community would embrace it. They were unprepared for the backlash – and still, many of the less web savvy folks think it’s cool enough that it continues to exist, thank goodness, as an option.

Glitches happen in every system. WordPress.com has made many people happy, and if you don’t like the limits, then there is WordPress.org, the full version, for you to do whatever you like.

Where else could you get such flexibility in choices?

OK, these things happen. But ‘support’ is closed for most of this week because everyone at WP is away at some conference apparently.

This means that, by the time ‘support’ is reopened I will have to sign up all over again. From previous experience, I suspect there will be a problem with the sign up form; something such as ‘this email address is already taken’ or ‘this username is already taken’.

WordPress might be fine once you’re signed up. But when things go wrong, very often you’re on your own, buddy.

And let’s not forget how those who run WordPress often fail to communicate effectively even with some of their best users. Users such as Lorelle, who had to find out about those dreadful Snap Previews from a third party source that Snap was an opt-out feature rather than opt-in. Well, if that’s how much WP values its user base, you can keep it.

Also I would love to better streamline my multiple blogs on one domain. WordPress.com’s lack of subdomain support sucks for this. I’d love to use www. and blog. for my main blog and then say, photo. for my flickr, personal. for my personal blog etc.

Also if I host it myself I imagine Ic ould set it up to map subdomains to tags on my main blog. such as reviews.lameazoid.com automatically points to lameazoid.com/tag/reviews/ .