I have a couple of blogs for social/community purposes on wordpress.com. They’re not really high traffic (hopefully not as much as 10,000 visits a month) and po

I have a couple of blogs for social/community purposes on wordpress.com. They’re not really high traffic (hopefully not as much as 10,000 visits a month) and posts are probably less than a handful each month. There’s no way I’m paying the pricing indicated in this blog post. It is ridiculous for personal sites in India, and if wordpress.com forces existing blogs to move to a paid plan with severe restrictions, it will only lose more mindshare and market share in an environment where a lot of content is already being published in other walled gardens where the publishers don’t have to pay directly. I believe this pricing move by wordpress.com is not well thought out. If it comes to it, I’ll have to look for alternatives that are better and provide a GUI based editor. Subscription by email is something that visitors to the blogs seem to use. Transitioning that may be painful or impossible, but these aren’t sites that have a personal connection with the subscribers. A post about the move should suffice for those who are really interested in getting notified (as opposed to the majority who follow a blog in the hopes of their blog being followed in return).