Your day to day activity on this site and reports back to the developers through the Feedback button helps WordPress develop. I think of it like being one of the co-developers. And like most experiments, you also need to work within a controlled environment. There are other WordPressMU blog services out there with HUNDREDS of themes to choose from, but you are on the elite, up-to-date, hottest of hot, test beds for WordPress. The developers chose to limit the themes you have to work with, and confine your messing with things to post content and links, so that they can focus on the real powerhouse behind the program and not spend all their time tweaking or fixing Themes you can mess up. The question of the problem being the Theme or the program are controlled. With the few hundred uses or so, most of the bugs in the Themes were sorta worked out so the problems are now with the program, not the theme. Typical experiment in a controlled environment. Very smart.

Already the developers have learned tons about how people blog, technically and physically, and they are working hard to make the core features solid and trustworth under all kinds of conditions. Podcasting, image uploading (ain’t that a sweet feature getting better every day), vblogging, links, and all the stuff people throw into their posts, help push this program to the limit.

When WordPress 1.6 is finally released, it will be one of the most widely tested blogging programs, and you are part of those helping it become so strong. As a WordPress user, thanks for helping all of us.