By my fairly arbitrary reckoning, the BBH quotient is nine and a bit (score 1 if your big header is blue, score 0 if it’s not, 0.1 if your header is 10% blue, etc.) This works out at about one in five. I haven’t got stats for themes.wordpress.net because I can’t really be bothered, but I’d imagine it’s not much different.

I’m not bitching about this, seeing as how I’m personally responsible for 0.75 of a BBH. Sorry everyone. Sometimes the lure of conformity gets to be too much.

A surprising number of people seem to have gone down the imageless route. I don’t know whether this is because they’ve been influenced by Scott’s minimalist ethos, or because minimalism is the Next Big Thing, or because it’s difficult and time-consuming to source GPL pictures and icons and therefore easier not to bother.

Trying to get an answer on whether and when the wp.com version will be updated to accommodate these new skins remains akin to extracting haemoglobin from granite, seeing as how feedback is closed so Mark can go on holiday. I suppose feedback was always more of a beta thing anyway, not to mention being buggy, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it never returns. Yay, more traffic for the forums to handle without the benefit of a moderator. (Staff wandering in once a day if they feel like it? Doesn’t count.) If people come in with broken stuff, I don’t know what we’re supposed to tell them now that ’send a feedback’ is out and the ‘contact support ‘form is down because it happens not to be office hours on the east coast. (This actually inconveniences people on the east coast more than anyone else, unless they’re all blogging on company time. They may be.)

‘Try again in a few weeks’ seems the best option. Or ‘move to another host’.