You are probably aware of the ongoing improvements to WUWT I’ve made. They seem to be paying off. Lately, things have been looking up for WUWT:
Source: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/wattsupwiththat.com#trafficstats
WUWT has been in the top 5 on wordpress.com lately, and recently often in the top 3. Today, we are number 1 in all the millions of wordpress blogs out there and we are number two for all posts system wide:
Source: my internal wordpress dashboard (sorry, can’t link)
As a result, I’ve been invited by the higher ups at WordPress.com to join WordPress Enterprise, at a reduced rate from the normal $500 per month. There’s a backstory that I might be able to tell someday, but suffice it to say that I believe I owe this opportunity to something Al Gore did against WUWT .
This Enterprise level of service will add lots of functionality, and the best news: it will allow you to edit your comments to fix typos and other issues, a feature most often asked for.
It will open a whole new dimension for WUWT in many many ways with new features and ways to improve global visibility. This, all while maintaining the high level of uptime and hardened network firewall against the attacks from people that want to bring it down.
I’ve accepted the offer. Thanks to everyone: the moderators, the readers, and the guest authors for bringing WUWT to the top.
The change will be about a month away. There’s a major amount of importing and conversion that must be done by the wordpress.com staff.
On the downside, there’s a cost, not unlike having a monthly car payment. Gone will be the days of a free ride on wordpress.com . I’m hoping that WUWT readers might consider helping me with maintaining the experience. If so, I’ll look into a monthly PayPal program.
Thanks for your consideration, and thanks for being part of the WUWT community – Anthony Watts
Footnote: while I am congratulating the success of the WUWT community, I should also offer congratulations to Andrew Revkin for his DotEarth blog being named to TIME’s top 25. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/dot-earth-makes-time-magazines-list-of-25-top-blogging-efforts/?_r=0
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Congratulations and great news Anthony! Looking forward to the new features.
Congratulations.
I’d be willing to make regular reasonable donations if you’d allow me to refute people who claim you’re in the pay of Heartland or Big Oil by saying, ‘Nope, Watts is in the pay of skeptics like me.’ 😉
Being able to fix my own frequent typos should would be nice!
er, I was saying.
sure would be nice, not should would be nice…
I’m in!
I’m sure there are a whole bunch of people like me who would happily set up a $1-$5 a month donation from my paypal account. Painless entertainment, and like Mark Bofill, I want to tell people how your website is funded.
congrats!
Please get that PayPal program set up. Some things are worth subscribing to.
Please consider an alternative to PP that some, in principle, cannot use.
@ur momisugly Bennett @ur momisugly Mark
yes it would be a joy to put up a banner that says “WUWT is made possible by viewers just like you”
Given the grief I was given for appearing on PBS last year, it would be fulfilling.
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi
I have been reading your blog for a long time now and value it as a sour e of common sense information and a counterbalance to the mainstream BS we are subjected to daily. I would be happy to pay a monthly subscription to support you invaluable work.
Congratulations, Anthony. Your success is richly deserved.
I pledge 1% of all book sales to support your efforts to keep respectable debate alive.
Surely you can use some of that “Big Oil” money for the monthly payments 🙂
What are you going to do with all the extra money (what a funny sounding phrase)?
Congratulations! Although I am somewhat mystified by the company up there. While I do not read them, I expected to have at least heard about them. Other than STOOPID, I have not. Just goes to show how little I do know.
Fantastic congratulations! A huge affirmation on what a spectacular site this is and how commendable your level of work is.
I don’t use paypal unless I need it, which is rarely. So a paypal one-time contribution/subscription would work for me.
Thanks, Al.
Great news. I’d pitch in with a fixed monthly contribution if there’s a way to “set and forget.”
Since Glen Beck doubled his monthly fee for the Blaze on line TV show (it just sort of expired, cause I wouldn’t pay the $10/mo), I would gladly donate $5/mo to WUWT as it gives me much more entertainment and pure science knowledge than the Blaze TV.
Congrats, Anthony Watts. I see that your blog stats have arisen to the level that the AGW alarmists wished the temperatures would also arise to confirming their folly.
Many thanks to wordpress!
Hey Mike. Is that a hockey stick I see in that graph?
Can we assume that since you will be paying for the service, the only ads we see will be those that you place there?