Sunday, August 31, 2025

How many blogs are hosted by Typepad?

I have asked this question to Google and here is the AI (intelligence?) answer:


There is no public, total number for how many blogs were hosted on Typepad. 

Translate: Typepad does not provide the number.

but it's no longer relevant as Typepad is shutting down at the end of September, and all content will become unavailable.

Translate: Typepad (and AI) don't give a sh.. about the evicted bloggers and the content that will disappear.

Amazing: Eat shit and like it?

Where are the journalists investigating this story? No one anywhere?

As for the Typepad users when I read the comments about the shutting down news, as I just did on Linkedin, I am amazed by the general passivity. Zero rebellion, zero request for a detailed explanation, zero demand for respect of the content produced during 22 years!!!

Another question that came to my mind: how long did Typepad have an export tool available? Were they trying to get one and as soon as they did they kicked us out?

Yep, it's exactly what they did as told on Brian Hines blog. In March 2025 they did have their export tool ready yet...

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Web-Goddess does a good analysis and offers some hope

 It's here. Thank you Kris. Kris lives in Australia. That shows the worldwide impact of Typepad. How inconsiderate (huge understatement) for Typepad's owners to mistreat that way their customers/users.

As someone wrote: "There should be substantial penalties for service providers that shut down or remove content without fair notice or an opportunity to create backups. "

Typepad ferme ses portes

 Typepad ferme ses portes titre le site Siècle digital en complétant après 22 ans, la fin d'un pionnier du blogging et lui rend un peu plus hommage sans pour autant porter le moindre jugement critique sur la façon de procéder et s'inquiéter du sort des utilisateurs encore présents. Une attitude fataliste et bien peu combative :(

Ici un autre article nostalgique mais pas combatif. La résignation semble régner :(

Mais ils en disent davantage, pour le moment, que les media anglophones. Typepad ayant été très international, je me demande ce qui se dit, ou pas, dans d'autres pays et d'autres langues. 

Encore de la résignation même s'il y a un petit, tout petit coup de gueule: "Putain, ça me fait mal au cœur de voir ça"

Un seul mois de préavis, mais rien d'autre. Les consommateurs n'ont aucun droit.

Who is responsible for the decision to close Typepad? How to contact them?

While the text announcing the end of Typepad is anonymous, let us look at what persons/groups could have taken this decision and are responsible for the caused damages? 

Is it Sharon Rowlands who heads Newfold Digital that seems to be the owner of Typepad? Newfold is based on Jacksonville, FL but Typepad is nowhere mentioned on their site. Here is what AI for Google had to say:

"TypePad is owned by Newfold Digital, which acquired it when it merged with Web.com in 2021. Newfold Digital was formerly known as Endurance International Group, which had acquired TypePad from SAY Media." Web.com had been bought by Siris and Clearlake for about $2 billion in 2018.

Newfold Digital is a joint venture between hedge funds Clearlake Capital and Siris Capital Group. As Google AI writes:

Newfold Digital is co-owned by the private equity firms Clearlake Capital Group and Siris Capital GroupNewfold Digital was formed in 2021 when Clearlake Capital completed its acquisition of Endurance International Group and, in partnership with Siris Capital, combined it with Web.com Group to create the new company.

Some people don't like Newfold Digital (understatement).

Clearlake Capital Group is headquartered in Santa Monica. They just acquired Dun and Bradstreet. In case you want to stage a protest, their location is: 

233 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 800, 

Santa Monica, CA 90401

Their leaders and co-founders are according to wiki: Bedhad Eghbali, married to Julia Harris in 2014, lives in a new mansion

and José E. Feliciano, also a philanthropist.

Interestingly the 2 billionaire co-founders and their spouses were celebrated by the independent schools alliance for their philanthropy. Why didn't this goodwill extend to the Typepad users? Didn't they deserve some respect and some support?

A newcomer Tasha Pelio seems to be now in charge of communications (and marketing). I emailed her via Linkedin. Her boss had been recently interviewed on Bloomberg. Maybe he could be invited again to talk about Typepad's destruction? What about reconsidering such an unwise decision?

More to come about Siris Capital. Taking a short break. 

Feel free to contact all those folks.

Digging a bit more: 

According to Forbes, Feliciano has a net worth of $3.8 billion as of January 2024.

Clearlake Capital Group co-founder Jose Feliciano and his wife, musical artist Kwanza Jones, have donated $20 million to Princeton University to construct two new dormitories at their alma mater that will be named after the two donors.

About SIRIS Capital founders : Frank Baker, Peter Berger, Jeffrey Hendren

Besides their profiles on their site, I found nothing on Linkedin (they posted nothing)

Siris has offices in New York and West Palm Beach. 

New York

825 Third Avenue
Suite 2850
New York, NY 10022


Phillips Point West Tower
777 S. Flagler Drive
Suite 1400
West Palm Beach, FL 33401

General Information
info@siris.com

Mr. Frank Baker is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Siris. Together with Peter Berger and Jeffrey Hendren, he launched Siris in 2011 and helped establish the Firm’s investment strategy, which focuses on driving value creation in mature technology companies with mission-critical products and services, facing industry changes or other significant transitions. Since its founding, Siris has raised more than $5.9 billion of cumulative capital commitments over three institutional funds, and Mr. Baker has helped oversee the Firm’s platform equity investments, in addition to non-control investments. Prior to founding Siris, Mr. Baker was a Managing Director at Ripplewood Holdings LLC, a global private equity firm. He started his career in the mergers and acquisitions group of Goldman Sachs and earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago. Mr. Baker currently serves as a trustee of the University of Chicago and has been a major supporter of the university’s New Leaders Odyssey Scholarships. Mr. Baker is chairman of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, and a board member of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity.

Mr. Peter Berger is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Siris. Together with Frank Baker and Jeffrey Hendren, he launched Siris in 2011 and helped establish the Firm’s investment strategy, which focuses on driving value creation in mature technology companies with mission-critical products and services, facing industry changes or other significant transitions. Since its founding, Siris has raised more than $5.9 billion of cumulative capital commitments over three institutional funds, and Mr. Berger has helped oversee the Firm’s platform equity investments, in addition to non-control investments. Previously, Mr. Berger was a founding member and Managing Director of Ripplewood Holdings LLC, a global private equity firm. Mr. Berger was also a Senior Partner and Global Head of the Corporate Finance Group at Arthur Andersen. Prior to that, Mr. Berger was a Managing Director at Bear Stearns’ investment bank. Mr. Berger has an M.B.A from Columbia University School of Business and a B.Sc. from Boston University. Mr. Berger is a frequent guest lecturer at Columbia University School of Business and serves on the Board of Directors of Jazz at Lincoln Center.


Mr. Jeffrey Hendren is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Siris. Together with Frank Baker and Peter Berger, he launched Siris in 2011 and helped establish the Firm’s investment strategy, which focuses on driving value creation in mature technology companies with mission-critical products and services, facing industry changes or other significant transitions. Since its founding, Siris has raised more than $5.9 billion of cumulative capital commitments over three institutional funds, and Mr. Hendren has helped oversee the Firm’s platform equity investments, in addition to non-control investments. Prior to founding Siris, Mr. Hendren served as a Managing Director at Ripplewood Holdings LLC, a global private equity firm. Mr. Hendren started his career at Georgia Pacific and was a member of the mergers and acquisitions group of Goldman Sachs. Mr. Hendren earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.Sc. from Indiana University.

And look at Newfold's declaration of Values !

Focus on the customer, always 

Customer focus is deeply embedded in our mindset and behaviors, guiding us in all that we do. We exist because our customers trust us with their online needs, and we take their trust very seriously. We know that we all impact customers through our work. That knowledge inspires us to always act with integrity, listen to the customer’s voice and push for the highest professional standards to reliably meet their expectations. 

Act as one team to deliver exceptional results 

Our people are our greatest resource, and they achieve extraordinary results when they work together as one global force. With a shared one-team mindset, we get things done for our customers and have a good time doing it. We are committed to delivering exceptional results for our customers because their success goes hand-in-hand with ours. 

Demonstrate passion for excellence 

We are driven by our passion for helping small businesses thrive online, recognizing that being a "good" company isn’t enough. We enjoy doing everything to the best of our ability and we are committed to the pursuit of excellence in every aspect of our roles. Our passion for excellence drives us to better serve our customers, to deepen our knowledge and to always put forth our finest effort. This is how we become the best! 

Foster a sense of belonging 

We represent a company where people from all different cultures, backgrounds and locations work together with confidence and empathy. As individuals we may have different perspectives and communications styles, but we all feel safe bringing our authentic selves to work and we like to have fun along the way. We encourage openness and honesty, and we thrive in the warmth of compassion, humor, kindness and respect. It is our constant desire to be inclusive and to honor unique talents and ways of seeing the world. The environment of belonging we create establishes a winning culture, breeds innovation and yields strong team performances. 


What Laurel thinks and feels, look at his conclusion, 'bottom line" :(

 

Typepad shutting down on September 30. I'm crushed, but not surprised.

It hurts. There's no other way to say it.

I've been blogging on Typepad since 2003. So when I sleepily looked at my email inbox early this morning and saw the subject line "Important Notice -- Typepad Shutdown  Announcement," I both woke up and felt distressed instantly. 

I have three blogs with about 8,400 posts. My whole life, or at least my life since 2003, is reflected in those posts. Losing all that content would really bother me. This is what I told Typepad support back in March of this year, as reported in "Typepad told me they aren't going out of business. Hope that's true."

The Typepad outage yesterday spurred me to do some Googling about Typepad. I saw that you haven't accepted new customers since 2020 and may not be in business much longer. Hopefully that isn't true.

But if it is, I sure hope you guys will have a plan for those of us who have been with Typepad almost from the start, 2003. In those 22 years I've made about 8,300 posts on my three blogs. It's just overwhelming for me to think about losing all that content, which includes many personal experiences, since I partly use blogging as a form of a diary.

So I've got posts about deaths in the family, my granddaughter's birth, health problems, joys and sorrows, all that stuff. It's all under a Typepad URL, so if you go away, so does my ability to retrieve those posts.

I'm simply asking what I hope you're already planning to do in case Typepad goes out of business. Please seriously consider a plan to keep the posts of people like me available. I'm not computer savvy enough to know what this might be. I just know that I'd be willing to pay more to preserve that content, as I'm confident other Typepad users would be.

So it bothered me when today's email from Typepad simply directed users to the already existing export feature on Typepad. Sure, that's a lot better than nothing, but a lot worse than getting help from Typepad in migrating blog posts to a new platform. In that 2025 post I shared a reply I got from Laura of Typepad support.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your message. Although Typepad is no longer accepting new sign-ups, we continue to support our existing customers and there are no plans for that to change. If it were to change at some point, there would likely be a tool to help bloggers migrate to another platform. However, as mentioned, there is no plan at this time to shut down Typepad, and the Support team are still here for you.

Thanks,
Laura

Well, now there's a plan to shut down Typepad without a tool to help bloggers migrate to another platform. Noting that, today I sent this support ticket to Typepad.

I beg you to give us more time to export our content and set up a new blog. I have three Typepad blogs. Two were started in 2003 and 2004. I have over 8,300 posts. As I messaged your earlier this year, "It's just overwhelming for me to think about losing all that content, which includes many personal experiences, since I partly use blogging as a form of a diary. So I've got posts about deaths in the family, my granddaughter's birth, health problems, joys and sorrows, all that stuff. It's all under a Typepad URL, so if you go away, so does my ability to retrieve those posts."

I've started to look for a Wordpress developer who could set up three new blogs and hopefully import all or at least some of my previous posts. But this will take time and money. It seems unreasonable to expect that us Typepad users can handle all this in a bit more than a month. We need more time. How will my regular visitors to my blogs know where the new blog is when all they're get after September 30 is an error message?

Also, it would have been nice if you guys had offered some advice/help in migrating blog content. Last March I was told by Laura, "Thanks for your message. Although Typepad is no longer accepting new sign-ups, we continue to support our existing customers and there are no plans for that to change. If it were to change at some point, there would likely be a tool to help bloggers migrate to another platform. However, as mentioned, there is no plan at this time to shut down Typepad, and the Support team are still here for you."

I optimistically thought that "a tool to help bloggers migrate to another platform" meant more that just being able to use the existing export feature. I feel overwhelmed at the moment. Blogging has been a big part of my life for 22 years and it was a shock to get your email today, though not a complete surprise, since Typepad has been difficult to use and buggy for quite a while.

Once again, Laura was the person who replied to me today.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your message. We did originally hope that there would be an automated tool to migrate to another blogging platform but it turned out that this was not technically feasible.

Here are the steps that we recommend:

1) Set a date that you will make the last post to your active blogs and do the exports after that date, so that all of your posts are included.

2) Start research now to find a new provider. We don't recommend any specific platform, but in our experience WordPress is the nost popular alternative so we suggeset searching for the best pricing on that.

3) Once you have identified your new blogging provider, set up at least a landing page saying that content will be coming soon. Then you can link to that from your final post on your Typepad. Doing this lets people know that you are moving and where they should go.

4) You don't need to have the new blog(s) fully set up elsewhere by September 30, as long as you have the messaging up, as described above, and have the exports. Doing it this way buys you more time to actually import the content at the new provider because your messaging to readers is already in place.

I hope this helps you get started.

Thanks,
Laura

I have indeed started the search for a new blogging provider, focusing on WordPress. Along with contacting WordPress directly (they have a referral service for those willing to pay at least $5,000 to a WordPress developer, which I probably am), I've reached out to five WordPress developers I found via some Googling. Most are based in Oregon, where I live. Haven't gotten any responses yet.

Which isn't surprising, since Labor Day is next Monday and many people are still in summer vacation mode. That's partly why I was hoping Typepad would extend the September 30 shutdown date. I ordered a beginner's guide to WordPress from Amazon that will arrive tomorrow, because I may have to cobble together some WordPress blogs on my own fairly soon if I can't quickly find a WordPress developer who can do this for me. 

I appreciated Laura's prompt reply, but it really wouldn't work to simply put a notice on my blogs a few days before September 30 that tells people where to find the blog after that date. I have regular blog visitors, but they don't all show up every day, or even every week. So I feel like I need to have a new blogging home by September 15 or thereabouts, to give visitors to my blogs several weeks of advance notice where I've ended up.

Bottom line: it seems to me that Typepad and its parent company could have handled the shutdown considerably better. I realize that these days corporations can be pretty heartless. It just feels wrong to only give us Typepad bloggers a bit more than a month to handle the shutdown of Typepad, with no help in migrating our content to another platform.


And below are a few comments (as of this morning)

Hey man, this sucks beyond compare, but I don't think you should despair or fork over $5k for carrying over your data.
I see from here https://firstsiteguide.com/move-movabletype-and-typepad-to-wordpress/
that typepad actually has an export function?

Worst case scenario, with a bit of tinkering and some help from LLMs, I think you could make a script to scrape everything, bring everything to JSON and then reimport into Wordpress.

After years and years of lies, this is Typepad's 'masterpiece'. Just like you, I am about to lose a big part of my life. So much work was put into the more than 7000 postings on my blog. I feel totally lost. And getting in touch with those scammers is more useless now than it ever was. They don't give a sh*t about us. They never did, actually.

amido, thanks for the link. I knew Typepad had an export function, but not that WordPress had a built in ability to migrate Typepad posts. I have over 8,000, but hopefully the importing from Typepad is still possible.

I’ve been working for nearly two years on a new blogging service, Pika. It really is meant to be much lighter weight than WordPress (for example). It really is quite nice, though I may be biased. The biggest missing feature I see is comments, which is something we are considering for the future. We also don’t yet have search, but hope to work on that soon. If you play around with it and Pika seems like a good fit, I’d be happy to help import your Typepad export for you.

https://pika.page

The export file doesn't contain images, you have to contact support directly to ask for a downloadable file that has media in it. Hopefully they're still offering this service. I've done several Typepad > WordPress migrations over the years. It's not super straightforward but doable. Syncing up the images is the tricky part. I'm currently exploring the Typepad API to get comments imported that are still threaded, as that info isn't included in the text file either. Pretty frustrating. Good luck!

> The export file doesn't contain images, you have to contact support directly to ask for a downloadable file that has media in it.

If the export file has a still-working link to the image there might be a way to script and download the file for import into your target blogging service. (That’s how I’d write it for a Pika import.)

I feel the same as you, with over 7100 (daily) postings. It's my life.
This company has sold me so many lies in the past and now this. If only they could be sued...


Typepad lied

 In this post of March 9 2025 , I reproduce below because I am not sure it will survive, read the exchange between Lauel Hines and Typepad's Laura. Read in the next post what Laurel wrote on August 27 after learning Typepad intended indeed to close down.

Typepad told me they aren't going out of business. Hope that's true.

I've been blogging with Typepad since 2003, which is when Wikipedia says Typepad launched. So I must have been one of their earliest customers. Now I have three Typepad blogs.


So while I've gotten used to fairly frequent Typepad outages as problems with the blogging service have become more common, when I couldn't log in to my account on March 3, I got more concerned than usual.

Even though things were back to normal by the next day (which for Typepad is still pretty crappy, especially when it comes to uploading photos, as this person complained about in 2022), I felt the need to send Typepad a support ticket that said:

The Typepad outage yesterday spurred me to do some Googling about Typepad. I saw that you haven't accepted new customers since 2020 and may not be in business much longer. Hopefully that isn't true.

But if it is, I sure hope you guys will have a plan for those of us who have been with Typepad almost from the start, 2003. In those 22 years I've made about 8,300 posts on my three blogs. It's just overwhelming for me to think about losing all that content, which includes many personal experiences, since I partly use blogging as a form of a diary.

So I've got posts about deaths in the family, my granddaughter's birth, health problems, joys and sorrows, all that stuff. It's all under a Typepad URL, so if you go away, so does my ability to retrieve those posts.

I'm simply asking what I hope you're already planning to do in case Typepad goes out of business. Please seriously consider a plan to keep the posts of people like me available. I'm not computer savvy enough to know what this might be. I just know that I'd be willing to pay more to preserve that content, as I'm confident other Typepad users would be.

The response I got made me feel better, though it wasn't totally reassuring.

Hi Brian,

Thanks for your message. Although Typepad is no longer accepting new sign-ups, we continue to support our existing customers and there are no plans for that to change. If it were to change at some point, there would likely be a tool to help bloggers migrate to another platform. However, as mentioned, there is no plan at this time to shut down Typepad, and the Support team are still here for you.

Thanks,
Laura

I replied with:

Laura, thanks much for your positive response. I feel better now. The notion of a tool to help us bloggers migrate to another platform sounds great. Seems like that would benefit both the other platform (new customers!) and Typepad bloggers (no need to get degree in computer science!). Hopefully it won't come to that. I feel a large sense of gratitude to Typepad for sticking around since 2003, which I like to refer to as several hundred years in Internet Years, given the rapidity of change since that time. Of course, that's when I began blogging, which makes me a several hundred year old blogger -- a bit more than my actual ancient age of 76.

Quite a while ago, maybe as many as ten years, I looked into converting my many thousands of blog posts into a WordPress format. It turned out that this would be very difficult to do, if not impossible, so I gave up on that idea.

This helps explain why I felt so good about Typepad support saying they hope to offer a tool to help bloggers migrate to another platform if it came to that. I'd hate to lose not only the text of my posts, but also all of the photos, files, comments, and such that have been part of my 8,300 posts. 

Friday, August 29, 2025

What's wrong with Typepad's decision to close down by september 30 and how to fix it

 Typepad's decision to close down by september 30, announced via email to its users on August 27 remains largely as of today under the radar of the media mainstream or else. They do need some time to eventually do some digging, find out who were/are the decision makers, what were their motivations. Wikipedia has already updated tyypepad's profile, only mentioning at the end september 30.

What's wrong with this decision? First it's abruptness: many people (by the way how many people are still using Typepad and are going to be impacted?), all users are faced with a very short deadline to export their content into another system, if they want not to see it disappear. What would have prevented Typepad to provide a much longer warning, like several months or a year and help users with their transition?

The way the decision was announced seems to justify the feeling that the Typepad owners did not care one bit about their users, contrary to their claims of only having the most respect for them :(

Therefore it would really be interesting to get to the roots of this decision to eventually put the blame where it is deserved and/or open opportunities to revisit it and fix it, make it better, for everybody. I mean, after 22 years of posting, not any type of celebration, not any funeral arrangement: are the VCs who apparently are the above owners, so afraid of their own death, are they so devoid of any empathy for all the suckers who used their service for so many years, are they so disdainful of the content posted that they don't care of eveb the most minimal inventory? Isn't there any student or even university professor who would be interested in looking a bit at all this enormous amount of data that is going to go directly into the digital garbage? 

Got to go but I'll return soon with suggestions for a decent farewell to Typepad and supportive measures for it's users.


PS: when I asked the people at Typepad who very nicely provide help, here is the answer I got:

We understand your frustration and outrage.

To address your questions, we have not been given clearance to discuss
any particulars about Typepad, its user base, the decision process, or
the status of our positions.

We'll continue providing support to our users, as we have for over 20
years, until its last day. Thank you for being a user for nearly all of
it.

Sincerely,

I deleted the signature because he/she is only the messenger. Come on Wizard of Typepad, get out of the screen!

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Big F You to typepad users

 This strong wording resumes well how I and many others feel. As found on twitter

https://twitter.com/i/trending/1960829667868598486

Typepad’s Shutdown Deadline Sparks Bloggers’ Frantic Data Exodus

Last updated 23 hours ago

Typepad, a pioneering blogging platform since 2003, announced its shutdown on August 27, 2025, with operations ending on September 30, 2025. Users face a mere 30-day window to export their data, triggering frustration and nostalgia among bloggers who must urgently migrate years of posts, photos, and comments. Tech entrepreneur Pieter Levels criticized the tight deadline as a “big fuck you to users,” emphasizing the risks of permanent data loss in an era of fleeting digital services.

Another comment extracted from twitter:

The great betrayal! And hardly a month to find a new host and to somehow save and/or transfer 25,000 blog posts, and archives, posted and collected over those 20 years. It’s physically hardly possible to do the transfer of all content in the allotted time.

Typepad is shutting down

Yesterday, on August 27, Typepad just announced they are shutting down.

Below is the text of their announcement.

This raises many questions:

1. while the text is anonymous, who took this decision? Is it Sharon Rowlands who heads Newfold Digital that seems to be the owner of typepad?

At least according to Google as the Newfold website says nothing about typepad.

"TypePad is owned by Newfold Digital, which acquired it when it merged with Web.com in 2021. Newfold Digital was formerly known as Endurance International Group, which had acquired TypePad from SAY Media." Later I find out that Newfold Digital is a joint venture between hedge funds Clearlake Capital and Siris Capital Group.

2nd question: How many people/organizations still depend on typepad?

3rd question: despite it's statement of values, how does Newfold think those people and organizations are going to manage to pivot within 30 days from typepad into another system? Where is their "focus on the customer" in this matter?

Let me quote them:

Customer focus is deeply embedded in our mindset and behaviors, guiding us in all that we do. We exist because our customers trust us with their online needs, and we take their trust very seriously. We know that we all impact customers through our work. That knowledge inspires us to always act with integrity, listen to the customer’s voice and push for the highest professional standards to reliably meet their expectations. 

I can tell you I feel completely betrayed and disrespected. and I am very angry. I was a typepad customer from the very start, in 2003 so that's 22 years of blogging and more than 200 blogs. How am I supposed to adequately manage the transition of the content of even only the main 20 blogs? I don't think Sharon gave any care to the potential impact of their decision. I hope their customers will unite and revolt and make them change their minds and negotiate a better deal or face the strident music of outraged customers. I hope the media will start calling Sharon now and ask for her comments.

Here is their address:

 

 

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. 

  I have saved the text of the page announcing the shutting down of Typepad. Note that it is anonymous: nobody takes responsibility, hidden ...