TypePad's On My Last Nerve

In two weeks I'll hit my 1-yr anniversary w/ this blahg. One whole year! Never thought I'd make it. That said, I almost didn't, and for once it wasn't writer's block, staring into the abyss, or Repugnican chicanery (but I repeat myself) to blame! It was my blog software managers. Yes, TypePad is the culprit. What went wrong? They held such promise -- the ease of use, the swanky digs, the smells like teen spirit of the up-and-coming, entrepreneurial young folk running the show. Alas.

TypePad's been screwing up since at least July when they first corrupted my dang file somehow and reverted my blog to some random template, causing me to have to jump through hoops to get it back to my high-concept [::cough::] design specifications. Before then, they were screwing up stats and referrers for ages. According to TypePad, 12 of you have visited this year. Many thanks to the Dirty Dozen! It's been a bumpy ride, culminating in the last couple of days with going down completely, losing posts, reverting to archived posts on our index pages, &c. and &c. Like any good American, when pushed to my limit, I sit down and pen a limerick, because I know if anything can stick it to The Man, it's a lim'rick. Take this, TypePad!

There once was a platform called TypePad
Whose code-writing skillz were quite bad
They lost our blog posts
And behaved like drunk hosts
So we all ran off to the next fad.

And in case that doesn't hit them where they live, a bonus haiku:

Unavailable!
TypePad's inertia renders
Error 404.

These boots may be walkin' soon. Hmmph.

 

Comments

[The Fat Lady Sings]

Honey - you and I will walk there together! My blog is STILL screwed up - with no sign of fixin' yet! Every time anyone comes to have a look see - it’s as if time had frozen on December 11th. The only way to see recent posts is for the viewer to click on the title bar. Now, just how in hell does Typepad expect me to tell people that, when no new posts can be displayed? Oh - I am so pissed off the steam you see coming from my ears would power a small hospital!

You know - I even took up temporary digs across town! Typepad Refugees - and I'm thinking it just might stay up a while.

[Skye]

There have to be more than 12 of us.

But don't jump to WordPress. I'm not saying don't jump somewhere, but from my experience I'm pretty sure that if you want to manage your own templates/design but don't have a programming background (like me), you'll be sorry if you go with WordPress.

[justin]

You've lots who can assist with the transition to WP. Let me know if I can help.

[Diane]

I'm sure all of them have their problems from time to time, but I really do like Blogger. There was a time when Blogger's problems were a bit too frequent, but that time is long gone. Also, many of the "problems" people had with Blogger had nothing to do with the software, but with the complaining bloggers' inability to use commone sense. The majority of those "lost" posts were probably not lost at all.

[Diane]

Addendum to my post: You can manage your own template with Blogger, too.

[Phil]

Which way will it tip, which way will it tip?

Thanks for reminding me that I ought archive my TypePad-hosted blog at some point before they go kabloom. Or kerplunk.

Anyway, fun to find your blog via Pinky.

[michael]

just wanted to be another person you could count as a reader of your blog, i love it. i use wordpress on my own blog and its really pretty great, i'd recommend it. i use the version that you install on your own webserver (wordpress.org) cause i'm geeky like that, but i know a few people who host theirs with wordpress (.com) and they love it too, get walking!