More pig-sticking mockery of Six Apart and Typepad
Who’s pissed about Typepad? Seth Godin is. Kevin Burton isn’t. Daniel Nicolas credits the Six Apart PR department. Accountant-blogger Dennis Howlett doesn’t care how kind they are or how hard they’re working — he’s done with Typepad.
Steve Rubel says this sort of crunch didn’t stop eBay and it won’t stop Six Apart if they also learn from the disaster. So our best case scenario is that 6A becomes a behemoth system hated for its inflated self-congratulations, shady dealings, and censorship of fringe activity.
I hope Mena Trott can tie the meltdown into her talking points, accountability and the need to get more people blogging.
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on December 18, 2005 at 11:14 am Frank Gruber wrote:
I am not “pissed” at Six Apart. Obviously it was upsetting to have Somewhat Frank displaying week old content for 10 to 13 hours but I understand that within the field of technology these sorts of things are sometimes unavoidable. I talked with Anil Dash of Six Apart on Friday and he was very apologetic. He understands the seriousness of the outage and I am sure Six Apart will somehow make it up to its loyal customers. However, I think bloggers that use TypePad should take a few extra precautions so that they are not out of luck if this sort of thing were to happen again. For example, I am going to start using a local desktop client to post to my blog. That way I will have a local copy of each post saved. In the case of an outage I could use my local version to restore Somewhat Frank. I would urge others to do the same. Also storing your blog images on Flickr or another image hosting service could help eliminate a single point of failure.
on December 18, 2005 at 1:17 pm Former Typepad User wrote:
Frank–if you’re just going to host your images on Flickr anyways, then why use Typepad at all (over the FREE Blogger)?
You’re cool with paying $10-15/mo. for built-in list management, the ability to categorize posts, and regular outages/performance issues?
Is there something else I’m missing?
on December 18, 2005 at 2:03 pm Frank Gruber wrote:
Good questions. I do not like the customization options available with most free hosted blog platforms. I have a few other blogs where I do it all myself, hosting, server management, platform management but thus far have stuck with TypePad for Somewhat Frank because it is easy to manage. Since TypePad is continually updating the software it saves me time. If I hosted my own Moveable Type or Wordpress blog I would have to keep up with the platform updates myself unless I pay to have a hosting company to do it for me. I guess it just comes down to trying to keep it simple.
on December 19, 2005 at 8:50 am John wrote:
“…these sorts of things are sometimes unavoidable.”
The key word, Frank, is “SOMETIMES.” But Typepad has been having performance issues for months. When is it enough? I don’t care how well their PR communicates, or if they give me a month of service free…
I want a service that works. And lately, their track record has not been good.
Luckily, I don’t really make any money off of my blog. But if someone who does asked me right now if they should use Typepad, I could not in good conscience recommend the service, due to all the performance issues.
There’s no good way to spin the technology issues they’ve been having.