Why are there over a 1,000 themes to choose from on wordpress.org, but why very limited on wordpress

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  wqyutv · Member · Apr 22, 2017 at 3:16 am

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  I wanting to move my website from being self-hosted to wordpress.com and use the theme I am currently using witch is from wordpress.org, but I noticed that it is not showing up on wordpress.com witch I have searched by the name of the theme, another and it is not showing up, why is that? So why offer over a 1,000 themes to choose from on wordpress.org that are free, but be very limited on wordpress.com?

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  garysixtyeight · Member · Apr 22, 2017 at 3:54 am

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  Hi there,

  Themes available at WordPress.com have to go through a much stricter code audit than dotorg themes before they can be accepted.

  There are several reasons for this – security, usability, performance, data portability, compatibility with Jetpack’s features etc