[altairprime]

My working theory is that investors are pulling up ladders now that interest rates are VC-unprofitable, and so either he finds a way to increase growth in profit y-o-y or they bail and let him crash like TypePad did years ago. (Except TypePad had paying customers, so their bandwidth bills weren’t anywhere near the looming threat WP is presumably facing.)

[nextworddev]

What he’s doing is basically what every cloud provider does but for some reason he is demonized even more

[philistine]

Could you point me to the post from AWS complaining that they have to provide free labour?

[nextworddev]

GCP and AWS are obviously more tactful and call that open source and partner ecosystem strategy

[altairprime]

He's openly hostile, though, which is definitely a key difference! (Not an admirable one, but still.)

[bookofjoe]

I've been with Typepad for my blog since 2004 and though it's clunky and glitchy, it still works!

[altairprime]

Yeah, exactly! No reason for it to collapse into ashes like the Wordpress “I dream of ruling an ecosystem by refusing to charge money” plans will, even if certainly as an old thing it’s old.

[evanelias]

You might want to visit https://www.typepad.com/pricing as a logged-out user, and read the entire pop-up (which has been present for 4 years now) before saying that...

[altairprime]

I'm aware, but to explain the parent comment for the other readers of the site: Typepad wasn't able to continue operating through one of the dotcom crashes as an independent concern, but their hosting servers and customers were sold intact to another business, which continues to operate the TypePad servers for existing paying customers only.

[evanelias]

My point was more re: "refusing to charge money" is an ironic criticism of WP when comparing to Typepad, a service whose owners are outright refusing to accept new paying users... and who have a pop-up directing prospective new users to instead use WordPress hosting on BlueHost (which is owned by the same parent company who bought Typepad).

No new users means Typepad's revenue will only ever shrink, which bodes poorly for the service's future. Having a massive intricate Perl codebase doesn't help either – it was designed to scale relative to aughts-era hardware, for a much larger audience than it currently has. Its future was already bleak in 2010 when Six Apart (its original owner) was acquired by VideoEgg, which came about largely because WordPress/Automattic absolutely won out over Movable Type and Typepad for blogging software market share.

As a former Six Apart employee, I'm glad that Typepad is still around 14 years after all that, but I'd be surprised if it continues to exist for much longer.