Typepad Union

Monday, September 8, 2025

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)

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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