My first rant has to do with my most recent annoyance; the wordpress.com pricing model. Specifically, how it’s all about nickel and diming for features. I know it costs money to develop software and run servers, so I have no problem paying. I just find the way they have gone about it a little irritating.

The first fee was for a custom domain name – $10 year. Ok, less than $1 a month for hosting, not too bad. The one is really annoys me is the custom CSS fee. Yes, you actually have to pay $15 if you want the ability to edit the inline CSS. I’m not looking to do anything fancy, just move the tagline down a little from the title and I’ll have to pay $15 to do it. Stupid.

Even with the CSS, I’m still only paying $25 a year. I would just find it preferable if they asked me to pay $25 (or even more) for a “package” containing the basic features instead of $10 + $15 + ? for every little thing I need.

There, we started off light. Hang on tight. The rants will get worse from here.