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

Partings and Farewells, a Jungian perspective

A therapist friend of mine recommends that I listen to this podcast that she thinks could help me manage the break up with Typepad. Difficult for me right now as I am still in a combattive mode willing to advocate/fight for a change of the decision imposed on us. 

At the same time I do admit there are things, including blogs that I could/should let go as I also wish I could let them go into an archive system where they would not be lost and I think that goes for the whole content of so many (yes they still refuse to tell us how many) blogs housed by Typepad. In a Freudian slip? I had first typed Typepast). I copied the inspiring text below, from the presentation of the podcast (you can also get to it via the link)

More complaints posted on X

 

continue below 

A few pictures by Folon that resonate with our situation

 

On Facebook:: Typepad Migration Group

 This is a small group created on Facebook. They look for ways/solutions to export their Typepad content. A few sad quotes:

Discouraging. Yesterday I paid for the Bluehost migration service, and this morning they refunded my money, saying they couldn't access Typepad's proprietary software.

While I had been busily patting myself on the back for managing the task of migrating all my text from the former Tyepad site by way of a WordPress plug-in called, promisingly, Movable Type and Tyepad Importer, I naively failed to glean that all the images were still being hosted by the Typepad site, which WordPress was simply pulling from, for lack of a better term. In other words, I saved all the words, but all the visuals were still right where they’d always been. And now, … every image I’d posted prior to the late August transition, well … they’re just gone.

4 positive proposals about Typepad for Jose E Feliciano

 Share them with him on his linkedin account:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/josefeliciano/

But now this link seems to be broken and Jose appears gone from Linkedin? Silly me, Jose probably just blocked me :) but YOU can contact him (as checked by a friend)

 Leave also a message on the Kwanza Jones and Jose Feliciano Initiative on Linkedin or/and their website. We fully agree with their philanthropic vision.

Dear Kwanza Jones and Jose E Feliciano, we would like you

1. to immediately suspend the decision to close Typepad on September 30

2. to consider the creation of Typepad Archives within a new Jose E Feliciano Research Center on Blogging established at Stanford University that would host and curate the Typepad blogs collection (22 years of blogs worldwide) by a special and generous endowment from you or choose Princeton University that you attended and that seems to have a very active blog community.

3. to support a blog safeguard content initiative that would develop the best programs to save and transfer blog contents, starting with the Typepad blogs

4. to organize the celebration of 22+ years of Typepad blogs, recognizing their diversity and special contribution to the internet history

More complaints including the suggestion of a class action

 

A few complaints found on X

 

Liste de mes blogs sur Typepad

 Evidemment, en 22 ans, j'ai accumulé pas mal de blogs: 201. Tous ne sont pas remplis de contenus, certains sont même vides car correspondant à des projets qui n'ont pas abouti. Mais une vingtaine ont un contenu substantiel. J'en ferai un bref inventaire ailleurs. In memoriam, car je ne crois pas que je procéderai à une reconstruction sur une autre plateforme même si j'exporte le contenu au cas où.

Même exporter seulement une vingtaine de blogs c'est la galère car le système n'est pas toujours opérationnel comme Typepad le reconnaît sur X sans proposer la moindre révision de leur calendrier pour tenir compte de ces problèmes.

Je reproduis la liste complète des blogs hébergés par Typepad ci-dessous.

Problems during exporting

Expulsé, licencié, volé, brisé, violé,

Expulsé, parce que la plate-forme était votre domicile, la résudence qui hébergeait depuis 22 ans tous vos projets et boum on vous en chasse: debrouillez-vous pour rassembler tout ce que vous avez installé et barrez-vous 

Licencié, parce que c´était mon principal outil de travail en tant qu´ouvrier digital, soutier du tek et on me le retire, on me force à essayer d´aller ailleurs et vite et probablement avec l´obligation de se faire aider sans que le proprio qui vous licencie vous aide en quoi que ce soit

 Volé, parce qu´en ce qui concerne les images, les photos, les illustrations, je ne pourrai pas tout "sauver". Il y a trop de contenu à inventorier, trier puisqu´il n´y a pas de sauvegarde automatisée. 

Brisé, avec l´outil de travail dont je suis dépossédé et que toute la production de ces 22 années de travail va à la casse, est brisée. Mais vous pouvez tout transférer, exporter. C´est faux. il y en a trop, il n´y a pas assez de temps, je n´ai pas l´énergie nécessaire, il y a des problèmes de fonctionnement. 

Il n´y a pas de raison de procéder ainsi sauf le mépris capitaliste envers l´ouvrier à qui on ne doit rien.

Dégagez, y a rien à voir. Et la plupart assistent, impuissants, résignés, silencieux, tandis que pendant la casse les affaires continuent, de plus en plus de millards, de plus en plus d´affichage éhonté de leur généreuse philanthropie. Regardez comme on est des types bien. Enfin ne regardez pas de trop près, ne nous posez pas de questions indiscrètes (gênantes), respectez le secret de nos affaires et contentez-vous d'admirer notre succès, édifié à vos dépens.

Violé, parce que ce contenu était un truc personnel qui m´est soustrait brutalement, évidemment sans mon consentement, sans que j´aie la moindre voix au chapitre, seulement enlève moi tout ton bazar avant le 30 septembre, après basta, out, over, finito, pas de funérailles, pas de sépulture, le grand vide digital. 

Je vais finir par rebondir, reconstruire, tout n´était pas à garder mais de quel droit 2 milliardaires m´ont-ils ainsi mis dehors, spolié, dépouillé? 

Bien sûr quand je pense à la Palestine, que je n´oublie jamais, j´ai honte de ma victimisation de rien alors que leur souffrance est si monstrueuse. Complète indifférence au saccage.

Free Palestine!

Let us look a bit closer at the two owners of Clearlake Capital

 Here in a post about their buying of Chelsea and how they do business :(

Here about their buying of Dun and Bradstreet. 

Pour une poignée de milliards, achat de MCVcredit en France .

Combien d'utilisateurs, combien de blogs impactés/expulsés par Typepad?

 Email envoyé à Frenchweb.fr:

J'ai lu votre article mais silence sur combien d'utilisateurs et combien de blogs vont être détruits :(

1000., 10.000, 100.000, 1,000.000

Tout le monde semble penser que ca n'a aucune importance.

Et vous?

Philippe Boucher

typepadunion.blogspot.com

You want to know how many users and blogs used Typepad? are going to be oblitared?

 I looked in vain  as the data seem very closely protected, but there is one site, Web Technology Surveys, that offers for Euros 299 to provide the info.

Ideas to consider?

 A good idea from commenter Milkywayer 

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

Could what TechnicaGratiaArs suggests below be feasible?

from ArsTechnica post and comments 

author of the article andrew.cunningham@arstechnica.com

TechnicaGratiaArs

 Ars Centurion

Could a subset of Typepad users request each of their own account's data be transferred to an independent Typepad server set up by that subset to continue operating? That subset could hire a team to augment or replace their own volunteers to execute the administration of the changeover.

Alternately, it seems a subset's members each could archive their own data sepatately, then the subset could populate a new server they (get) set up and operate going forward. That's not as simply managed as transferring the entire aggregate together, but it doesn't require any cooperation from Typepad's owners.

Indeed, that service seems like a steady business for an admin team serving each of these legacy sites as their original owners shut down. The trend will only accelerate.

Who am I and what do I care about Typepad going down that way?

 My name is Philippe Boucher and you can find more personal info on my Typepad hosted blog. If you go there, you'll see I have created and managed about 200 blogs hosted on Typepad so I certainly cannot expect to "export" and save all of this content, created since the beginning of typepad, 22 years ago. Not all the content is worth archiving but even if I focus on the main 20 blogs, it's still a lot and the "exporting" process does not look very effective, at least for a beginner like me.

You can have an idea of my blog production by scrolling down my CV where I list the ones I care for the most.

Have a look at the wordpress version of my personal blog compared to the present one on typepad. I guess/hope I can do better but for now it's problematic (understatement). So I am upset and angry at the people, including the few hedge funds billionaires who made the shut down decision and cowardly remained anonymous and as of now have not answered my requests for information.

I hope they can still understand it is in their own best interest in terms of their image and reputation to revisit this decision, cancel it and offer a fair deal to their customers.

A deal that would help them transition or provide a safe archiving. They also could organize a celebration of the many excellent blogs that were hosted and start engaging with Typepad users to work with them instead of evicting them without any consideration.

If your were one of the few remaining Typepad users

 That's what Arol Wright writes in his post. Too bad he does not provide any number.

He also writes: it's getting quite an unceremonious end, considering how long it's been online, with little over a month of notice and nothing other than a short blog post to say goodbye to it. But if you think about it, it makes sense. 

Well Arol, "unceremonious" is an understatement and I wonder what do you mean by "it makes sense".

I wish you would tell us how many people/organizations were still using typepad except maybe the people who made the shut down decision (who are they by the way?) fear the outcry when this number was made public.

Any chance you try to figure iout those points?

I email you: me@arolwright.com