Comment This!

Reblogged from WPcomMaven:

As with most changes on WordPress.com, they may happen suddenly and without warning.

One of the most recent changes, dropping the "Comments I've Made" tab in our site Dashboards in favor of the new "My Activity" tab in the New Dash, drew a lot of fire from the Community. It's not hard to understand why:

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Hoping that WPcom can figure out a way to keep commenting a community activity.

PSA

It’s official!

That's one small step for woman and one giant leap for WPcomMaven-hood wp.me/P1MwNN-c8 via @wordpressdotcom—
JenniferT (@wysiwygjt) February 19, 2013

Go Ahead—Add a Splash of Color

Reblogged from WordPress.com News:

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Adding Custom Colors to your blog just got simpler than ever! Now you can change your entire color scheme with the single click of a button. Color has impact: it sets context and should complement your message.

You'll find the most popular palettes and patterns from COLOURlovers are sure to delight whether you want to paint the town red or always bet on black.

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Just so excited to see Colourlovers integrated into a Custom Design upgrade here on WordPress.com after reading on techcrunch last year about Audrey Capital/Matt Mullenweg's investment in the app. A fantastic boon for those who love color but don't know Dusty Rose from Petal Pink. :) Thanks to a comment in that thread by designsimply, you can now see the current list of themes that support the Custom Design Color upgrade. Also, you will be able to use WordPress.com's "Live Preview" in the future, but for right now you'll have to purchase the Custom Design upgrade in order to see it on your supported theme. Since the $30/year upgrade is refundable up to 30 days from date of purchase, I don't see the problem.

You say Global Tags, I say Local Tags, We all say __ Tags

This is a very interesting discussion on the change to how the categories and tags appearing on our blogs work. If anything, I’ve learned over the nearly 5 years I’ve been on WordPress.com is that changes go on here all the time over which we users have zero control and input.

If you want control, you move to hosting your own WordPress.org install.

Otherwise, it pays to be really, really zen.

Early Birthday Gift from StumbleUpon

Happy 8th anniversary to @wordpress & @wordpressdotcom! Did u know you can stumble through the best of WordPress blogs: http://su.pr/1K5LSA—
  (@StumbleUpon) May 28, 2011

Even though WordPress.com has a couple of months to go before its 6th birthday, forgive StumbleUpon the small faux pas just for the cool present of the WordPress.com Stumble browser bar.

Go discover something new and Stumble your favorites.

Oh! And a Happy (belated) 8th Birthday to WordPress.org. Thank you Mike and Matt. Without you, we wouldn’t be here.

Better shared!