WordPress.com No Longer Invite-Only

November 21, 2005 · 6 comments

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1 Erik November 21, 2005 at 3:27 pm

Your link is missing a ” after href=

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2 Paul Stamatiou November 21, 2005 at 3:48 pm

Thanks for catching that… guess I was too eager to get that info out there.

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3 Chris November 22, 2005 at 12:39 am

Guess that Golden Ticket I’m sitting on isn’t needed anymore… oh well..

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4 Eli November 23, 2005 at 3:24 pm

Thought you might find this funny – from Mark @ 248am.com (rather than linking, I’ll just copy and paste, as it’s relevant to the post.):

I had an invite for wordpress.com and I didn’t know what username to get. I remember when I signed up to 23hq.com I was able to get the username “mark�, so I tried mark on wordpress.com and it was taken, I decided to try the next 4 letter word that came into my head which was fuck and it signed me up! I was expecting maybe a step 2 or confirmation screen but it just took the word fuck and now I am stuck with fuck.wordpress.com. I guess it’s cool…

At 23hq.com, I got the username “eli”, but unfortunately it was taken (??) at wordpress.com when I got an invite awhile back. Whatever. ;)

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5 Eli November 23, 2005 at 3:47 pm

EDIT: Wordpress.com allows a 4-letter minimum – my bad.

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6 Paul November 26, 2005 at 5:31 pm

Everyone should grab a FREE account. One reason for this is because the API is needed to run the Spam plugin Akismet(http://akismet.com/) :-) which works great !

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