TypePad: for the intermittent blogger
TypePad’s been down since 10pm pacific time last night. They’ve got the blogs back up, but in “degraded” form, which means any changes made in the last 3 days can’t be seen. Since I spent about 4 hours working on a client’s site yesterday (on Typepad), only to find all my work is not there now, I’m pretty thrilled.
I’m going to get coffee. Assuming I can’t get back to work on my client’s site soon, we’re going to start a VERY DETAILED assessment of all of the Typepad alternatives, and a step-by-step of how to get your blog off their leaky ship as fast as possible.
UPDATE: As of 11:15am PST, TypePad’s still down. I’ll get started on my alternatives review, with the newcomer on the hosted blogging scene, Wordpress.com, momentarily.
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on December 16, 2005 at 12:19 pm shane wrote:
I’ll be interested to read that assessment. I’m sick of their excuses.
on December 16, 2005 at 1:43 pm ktbunch wrote:
Wasn’t just a month ago that they were asking for our patience as they upgrade? My patience has worn thin.
on December 16, 2005 at 1:52 pm David Jacobs wrote:
It does make me sad (and it makes my Mom sad too!), but I do have patience left. delicious was down for a good part of the last two days, and who can forget flickr’s “massages?”
However, the point is not that we should have a low bar when we pay for blogging/social networking services, but that companies that do well like to take risks, and that we’ve come to expect that, for better or for worse.
on December 16, 2005 at 1:56 pm Kyle wrote:
David–I hear ya, only, Flickr doesn’t charge me $120/yr. (and I am a discounted Typepad member) for their service.
And del.icio.us doesn’t charge me at all.
I’m all for the low bar–on services that are free or under $5/mo. But somehow, when you cross that $5/mo. level, I want my shit to work, all the time.
Otherwise, I’m basically paying for Blogger-level reliability/performance, just so I can have:
(a) the ability to categorize posts
(b) a built-in photo app (that can be more-or-less replaced by Flickr or Buzznet)
(c) a built-in links app (that can be replaced by del.icio.us or any number of similar social bookmarking apps)
Somehow that value proposition just ain’t coming through for me.
But I think it’s just that I am no longer considered a Typepad target customer. And so I’m like the red-headed stepchild of Typepad users.
on December 16, 2005 at 2:03 pm Victor wrote:
Actually, to make it worse, the roll back is a longer. 3 days is actually 6 days, or longer (a lot aren’t showing posts since December 9th).
Here’s what Michael has to say about it:
http://www.sixapart.com/typepad/news/2005/12/current_issues.html
I’m afraid this is going to be the final straw for many people that had to deal with Typepad’s October Madness.
Blah.
on December 16, 2005 at 4:00 pm howard wrote:
Hello all, I just happened to read that you are looking into blogging alternatives. I’d throw motime.com into the ring. disclaimer, i’m the host…