Dear Automattic,

Thank you for, quite simply, the best blogging platform around.  WordPress.com is a great way to befriend you.

However…

My back’s killing me, my brain hurts, and my eyes are rolling on the floor somewhere…

Here’s the thing:

I want to move from WordPress.com to GoDaddy using WordPress.

• Setting up WordPress on GoDaddy – painless
• Exporting – no sweat
• Importing – still not sweating
• Hacking together our own theme – done
• Automattically redirecting to our new domain – no way Jose!

Not only that, I have spent 90 minutes reading countless forum comments to come to the realisation that the “Domains” offering only goes one way; the opposite direction of where I need to go

Yes, I can put up a “I have moved” post, but this is so Web 1.0, and code is poetry ^[1] – don’t you know?

Other like minds are in need of it too – see ^[2]?

So Automattic, when you have some spare time, please please please fix it.  If not, then please have a big red ”no we do not provide this” on the “Domains” page  :-)

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PS: The X-hacker comment is very cute