A long time user and avid fan of WordPress (WP), I have to say I love the WordPress community. I'm talking about a bunch of folks who work hard for free to bring you great themes like the one you see on this site every flipping day. They do it for the love (and little else) and I am very appreciative. I mean where else are you going to get awesome themes and a user friendly platform like this for free? And that's one reason I have never complained about the hiccups which sometimes occur when using WP…until now.

It was announced today that WordPress reached a milestone with it's latest "upgrade." The milestone in question was that WordPress 2.8 has had over 1 million downloads. Everyone on the thread over at the WP Blog was positively giddy. I'm wondering why? Maybe it's because their sites didn't crash after upgrading to this latest version. My experience on the other hand wasn't so pleasant.

Since upgrading to WP 2.8, my backend (no pun intended) has been broken. Additionally, several experimental themes I'm working on will no longer work with my site. A little research revealed that scores of people have sites which are now busted to hell because of the latest WP upgrade. And yet, we're breaking out the champagne to celebrate 1 million downloads.

With so many people's sites wrecked due to the 2.8 upgrade, why in hell is WordPress still offering it? As soon as they were aware of this, at the very least they should've put up a warning to download at your own risk and at most, pulled 2.8 until 2.8.1 stable was released. No. Instead, we're encouraging people to download and install it.As I said in the preface to my comments, I love WP and I've seen a lot in the years I've been blogging with them, but this I don't understand.