"This is sad. By going full steam commercial, Wetpaint disables features that made it during the last two years to a prime choice for Education. The membership management was easy and transparent. Now?
It would be helpful to teachers, if Wetpaint announces in advance when features of the sites are changed that affect directly the use of the Wetpaint Wikis in the classroom. The disturbance in my class from this member invitation change during the teaching period caused serious problems in my class management. It seems that the Wetpaint "crew" does not care."

"I'm with you on this!! I was just about to deliver a workshop on Wetpaint and encourage other teachers to join, but not anymore...back to PB Works or perhaps Wikidot....I had a feeling this would happen and wish I had never migrated all of my stuff over here. Live and Learn"

"It was while I was presenting to 75 teachers/administrators at a state conference on education technology that I found out about this recent business move by Wetpaint. Wetpaint has decided to burn all bridges to the education market. What a idiotic business move. People in education will remember these decisions and lack of warnings. I'm testing Google sites and it looks like it's capable of handling much of what we do with Wetpaint."

"I understand how disappointing some of the recent changes have been. Wetpaint has had to make some tough business decisions in the past few months. With the economy the way it is these days, Wetpaint needed to make some cuts and refocus on our core product. We lost some truly great people in layoffs, and those of us remaining on had to figure out how to streamline things in order to absorb the responsibilities of those that were let go. We dropped the free ad removal program for this reason, and we have made changes to the platform (phasing out private site features) for this reason as well. In order for Wetpaint to be sustainable and successful we have had to make cuts on the periphery. Unfortunately education programs and private site features fall into this area. We love education, but it's not our core business. With the resources that we have right now, it's not an area that we are able to expend our creative energies on.

We're bummed to hear that some educators are going to other tools or platforms, but we're also happy to see that thousands of educators are continuing to use Wetpaint despite the changes we've had to make. Our core feature-set is still available free of charge for those that find value in it, and we are committed to continue improving on that offering."