If you haven’t tried Jetpack yet — our sister plugin — there’s never been a better time to add it to your bucket list.
In the coming weeks we’ll be announcing a really exciting new addition to Jetpack’s services and you can sign up to get early access right here.
Akismet 
Right now it looks like WordPress is the best blogging platform
out there right now. (from what I’ve read) Is that what you are
using on your blog?
Yep! 🙂 This entire site is built with WordPress.
Please let this not be the start of a move to have Akismet only available as part of Jetpack…
If you allow comments, an anti-comment spam system is essential. The already bloated Jetpack isn’t.
Akismet will remain available as a standalone service. There are no plans to change that.