Une histoire qui n'intéresse personne

 C'est une histoire qui n'intéresse personne.

Typepad a été une des premières plateformes de blogs, créée en 2003, avec notamment pas mal de blogueurs français à l'époque. Après 22 ans d'existence, des milliers d'usagers (peut-être des millions car personne ne veut le dire), les milliardaires de Clearlake Capital qui ont racheté la boîte il y a plusieurs années, ont décidé de la fermer à la date du 30 septembre et ont annoncé leur verdict par email en date du 27 août à leur abonnés.

 

I have saved the text of the page announcing the shutting down of Typepad.

Note that it is anonymous: nobody takes responsibility, hidden behind a "we'.

Also note at the end the disgusting 

We truly appreciate your business and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for being a valued customer. 

Now who owns Typepad? Google tells us:

TypePad is being shut down by its owner, Newfold Digital, which acquired it from Endurance International Group. Previously, TypePad was owned by Endurance International Group and before that by SAY Media after Six Apart merged with VideoEgg. Newfold Digital also owns Bluehost, to which TypePad has been redirecting new signups since 2020. 

OK, who owns Newfold Digital?

Newfold Digital is a joint venture jointly owned by Clearlake Capital Group and Siris Capital Group. Clearlake Capital Group acquired Endurance International Group (EIG), and then partnered with Siris Capital to form Newfold Digital, which merged Endurance's web presence services with Web.com Group. 

Newfold Digital's website does not even mention Typepad! Transparency!

Worth reading? The page devoted to their values: Focus on the customer, always!

Typepad is shutting down

August 27, 2025

We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. 

What Does This Mean for You? 

After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available. Your account and all related services will be permanently deactivated.   

Please note that after this date, you will no longer be able to access or export any blog content. 

What Do You Need to Do? 

If you need to retain your content, please export your content before September 30, 2025. After this date, your content will no longer be accessible to you and will not be available for export. 

• You can find more information on exporting here.

Refunds & Final Billing 

• Effective August 31, 2025, we will no longer charge you for services. 

• If you have made a recent payment, we will attempt to issue a prorated refund to the payment method on file. 

• Please verify that your payment method on file is up to date to ensure successful refund processing. 

Have Questions or Need Assistance? 

If you have any questions, please refer to our Frequently Asked Questions page here.

If you have any additional questions or need help, please open a ticket at Help > New Ticket from your Typepad account.  

We truly appreciate your business and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for being a valued customer. 

Typepad: you don't love your bloggers, quit pretending, you dump them!

 

                Contact the big boss Jose E Feliciano on linkedin

20 days before the September 30 planned shutdown: often Error 503

But the Typepad server is often out of service :(

 An HTTP 503 Service Unavailable error means a server is temporarily unable to handle a request, often due to server overload, scheduled maintenance, or technical issues on the website's backend. As a user, you can typically resolve this by waiting and refreshing the page, trying again later, or checking if the website is down for everyone at once. For website owners, the issue is server-side and requires investigation into server maintenance, traffic, hosting resource limits, or a misconfigured server. 

Time to recognize Typepad closing procedure does not work and look for win win solution

                               Morning of September 9, 2025

Choose a win win approach

 

Your blog has been deleted

While preparing for the closure/destruction of Typepad I revisited the blogs I had published on blogger/blogspot and I discovered there were plenty! Most of them I had totally forgotten as they had been created impulsively, had sometimes no content or only one or a few posts. What a "blog mania"! I took to the task of deleting them and it took several hours! 

But this was my personal choice, not a destruction decided by blogger without my consent. This underlines that Typepad should have, could still proceed in a very different way to invite its customers to revisit their production and see how some of their blogs should be archived, their content and accessibility provided, some deleted (by the blogger), some moved to another platform, with the technical help of Typepad or the contractors they would fund to help out. This would be a civilized and respectful approach, not the present diktat present that stresses so many and leaves them powerless considering the upcoming destruction of years of work. 

I still hope Jose E Feliciano can see how wrong the present approach is and decide to change course for a win win solution: Clearlake gets a big PR bonus for respecting and celebrating a 22 years old blog platform and internet pioneer and its faithful customers-if they so desire- can keep their work alive and accessible. 

I am hoping to hear from you Jose.

STOP CLOSING TYPEPAD

 STOP CLOSING TYPAD

The message to send to Clearlake Capital and Jose E Feliciano