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Cutting the free tier from 3 GB to 500 MB makes it useless for many people: that's 500 images at okay resolution, and lots of people like to put photos on their

Cutting the free tier from 3 GB to 500 MB makes it useless for many people: that's 500 images at okay resolution, and lots of people like to put photos on their blogs. And 300 "visits" (page hits?) per day is almost as bad, as a runaway crawler or minor spike in interest can blow through that in no time. I moved away from WP.com when they started putting ads on the free tier. I thought their business model was upselling some people, so monetizing the free version felt scummy. The fact that they're crippling the free version now makes me even more glad I moved away.

mobilene 5y ago
You're going to pay for storage somehow, somewhere. For my photo-heavy WP.com blog (of 15 years!) I've always hosted my photos on Flickr. I pay the $50/year for Flickr Pro which gives me all the photo storage I could ever want. I agree with you about the ads on the free tier. Worse, the ads are extremely low quality. I complained about this (shaking my fist into the air, essentially) on my blog not long ago. https://blog.jimgrey.net/2022/02/08/why-i-still-recommend-wordpress-com-for-new-bloggers-but-am-not-as-bullish-on-it-as-i-used-to-be/ https://blog.jimgrey.net/2022/02/08/why-i-still-recommend-wo...