![]() Yes, as of this week we’ve gone from 5 plans down to just 2. I did a poor job of sharing context around why we are making change, so I can see how they could come as a shock. CEO Dave Martin responded to these concerns on Hacker News, apologizing for the lack of communication in the rollout: But to be honest, the hindsight doesn’t explain why – whose free plan, pro-open-source stance and focus on making publishing technology more democratic made it many a modern (non-technical) blogger’s host of choice – would pull the rug out like this. With the benefit of hindsight, perhaps we should have seen this coming: the new full-site editing option has rendered premium themes, and thus the premium and business plans redundant the Gutenberg upgrade allowed users on free as well as personal plans to do some of the things that were previously only possible with premium or business plans. In the absence of communication about the change, VM speculated that it may be a cascading effect of the block editor changing how well commercial themes can be monetized: This may be a bug in the rollout but at the time of publication, has not published a public notice the price changes beyond updating the pricing page. Although representatives have confirmed that the storage and traffic limits should only affect new sites, many long-time users have reported that their storage has been cut back to 500MB. Other users took to the forums to express frustrations with the new pricing. ![]() “It also imposed a traffic ceiling on both plans where none existed: 10,000 visits a month and 100,000 visits a month (and it hasn’t said anything about overages – so far).” “At some point late last week, WordPress replaced all of the paid plans with a single ‘Pro’ plan and reduced the storage on the free plan 6x, from 3 GB to 500 MB,” VM wrote. In a post titled “ What are you doing, ?” one user identified as “VM” expressed concerns about the pricing, which has changed from five plans to two plans, and slashed storage on the free tier from 3GB to 500MB. Over the weekend, a post regarding ’s as yet unannounced pricing changes went viral on Hacker News. ![]()
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