I just received this in the mail today – an invite for the wordpress.com blog service. If anyone wants it, just be the first to say so in the comments (leave your email too).

Basically, it’s like the very popular Wordpress system that Dew and many more others use, but simplified and easy to use. First come, first serve!

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Actually, Wordpress.com isn’t that much “simplified” once you discount the fact that you can’t (yet) customise the available themes.

It’s a full-featured install of WordPress Multi-user.

Also watch out for the shelf life of those invites: they expire seven days after they were sent.

— Rudolf 1081 days ago #

I guess I just figured it was the wordpress based version of typepad , which was a great service when I used it back in the day.

ya, but I guess I should’ve mentioned the invite shelf life. But aw well, if it expires, it expires.

— pketh 1080 days ago #

Wordpress.com have a very impressive server rack all for themselves at Textdrive. I guess they will switch to a subscription model like Typepad’s after a while just to pay for those servers.

If you want to hang on to your invite, you can use it, set up your weblog and automatically get another invite that will be good till you know who to give it to.

(Actually, I have a class of four students that I’m setting up with Wordpress.com weblogs now. I invited one of them, and the idea is that each of them will send their invite to the next student. If one of them goofs up and somehow ends up sending his invite to the wrong address, there will be a student or more who won’t get a Wordpress weblog. If you could keep your invite alive by opening your WP weblog, your invite might come handy for backup, just in case.)

You also might want to set up your Wordpress.com weblog just to study its innards and marvel at how much better organised Textpattern is. :-)

P.S. Could you make the Message textarea a bit larger? The default size is a pain in the neck if you want to post anything but a one-line comment.

— Rudolf 1080 days ago #

sure thing, set up my fake site here

ur right rudolf, wp has nothing on txp. I miss textpattern and textile, i missed not being bombared with so much visual clutter. so now I officially don’t get wordpress.

Never really realized how cramped this space is – I’ll change it right now.

but how do I? I looked in the comment_form and found the txp:comment_message_input / tag. Is there something I do to it?

— pketh 1080 days ago #

alrighty Rudolf,
I got help at the txp forum and enlarged the box – good size?

(was surprisingly non-intuitive)

— pketh 1079 days ago #

Much better, thanks!

— Rudolf 1079 days ago #

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