I disagree. I think most readers here (on Hacker News) are in the 99% category of Patrick's fictional scenario. Perhaps some of the contributors here are in the

I disagree. I think most readers here (on Hacker News) are in the 99% category of Patrick's fictional scenario. Perhaps some of the contributors here are in the 1% that would get grumpy, but I doubt even amongst the contributors that it would be all of them. Personally, I've used Weebly, and recommended it to many people. This level of emailing only happens if a) you're in the email-frequently side of their A/B test, and b) you don't manage to publish your site. If you do manage to publish your site - which is presumably why you signed up in the first place (unless you're the OP, who is clearly a somewhat unique Weebly user) - you won't get any of these emails! I honestly can't see what all the fuss is about.