It’s Labor day so we’ve been working extra hard for you. Here are a few of the latest improvements on WordPress.com:
- Managing links works better.
- You can now use extended entries with the “more” WYSIWYG button.
- You now get less generic profile information on registration.
- Invites are a lot smarter — it prefiles a lot of information for people you invite.
- When you invite someone you’re automatically added to their blogroll on their new blog.
- Feedback form works in IE.
- The cool fade I alluded to before is now in full effect. (Delete some more posts and comments.)
- It should be faster now (and we haven’t even moved to the new servers yet).
All the electricity problems have been solved in the new colo and thanks to the super-human Jason Hoffman everything has been racked and stacked and we’ll begin configuring them this week.
Matt on Not-WordPress, mostly photos 
The cool fade link is broken 😦
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Good catch, thanks.
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Generic profile information? Huh? What was generic before that isn’t now?
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Just tested out the feedback link. I love how the color fades. Pretty nice. I’m enjoying WP.com so far. I can’t wait to see what else you add to it. Hope you’re doing well! – Kathy
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Actually the delete function appears to be broken for me. When I hit it it does delete but doesn’t do any cool fade. I get the dialog and accept that but then I get an “error on page” message in the status bar (line 48, Char 3, Object does not support this action on benriga.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit.php). I have to hit refresh to see that the item has in fact been deleted. I’m running IE6.
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Sorry, Internet Explorer isn’t supported right now. It should be fixed tomorrow or the next day though, we just need to get in front of a Windows box.
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I hope you put the same effort on .org as .com
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Eduardo, since they share 95% of their codebase almost everything is shared. You can watch the WordPress timeline to see all the action that’s going on.
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I think that this is a really great project Matt. Thanks for all the efforts and time you are putting into this. I’m excited to see how WordPress.com develops over time.
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