My tech blog really got a big speed benefit from it. However, we still try to keep the plugins as minimal as possible, and I personally sometimes even do not do the main updates, unless I KNOW it will mess anything up on my precious blog.

I’m so thrilled to be a part of the WordPress.com community and delighted to test out all the new goodness that keeps creeping in making WordPress and WordPress.com better and better all the time. While there are always clunks along the way, I have to say that the testing experience of WordPress.com has come a long way since those very early unsteady days. Everyone needs to be commended for that.

Thanks again for all that you do for so many with little or no thanks.

I thought I would make more use of the “live preview” for Theme Customization than I have so far and expect to be using it more in the future. It’s a very useful feature for me because I have a private test blog I use when I answer questions on the support forum. I like being able to select header images and background images from the ones in my Media Library and predict that this feature will be very popular.

I have another domain I’m not currently using and I have been considering self-hosting a blog again. I’m finding that the rate and pace of additonal feature releases at WordPress.com, all without prior notice, are annoying me. Rather than becoming negatively focused I’ve tried to remain positive and more flexible when it comes to announced changes, but we all have limits and I may be reaching mine. This summer I’ll mull that over before I make a decision.