A Letter to Typepad

Dear Typepad,
I am quite pissed because of your service. Four reasons:

1. TROUBLE WITH LOADING THE MAIN PAGE. Loading the main page of my weblog sometimes takes an eternity. Over the past few days, on three occasions, the blog eventually loaded without loading / accessing the CSS. The last time was yesterday night. Note: I check tons of blogs during the week, probably over a hundred, and none had that problem.
2. TROUBLE WITH LOADING THE 'EDIT POST' PAGE. Often the edit post page loads without the toolbar (the one right under the 'Compose Post' tab). So, I am stuck in a situation where I can't write or edit anything. I have to reload the page which is not snappy as it used to be.
3. TROUBLE WITH PUBLISHING A POST. After I'm done editing one of my masterpieces (read: posts), I now always save a draft and then publish. Usually I've to wait around 5+ minutes for the verdict: post published or gateway error. The gateway error is a funny creature because it means that my post either did or did not get published. From my experience, with a gateway error, there's a 33% chance that my post did not get published. How do I check that? I reload my weblog which takes its own sweet time. Every single post that I've published today got a gateway error. The last post didn't get published at the first try. I had to save it again:
   
   Wednesday, Oct 26, 03:36 p.m.
   Gateway Timeout
   The proxy server did not receive a timely response from the upstream server.
   
   Reference #1.10707ecf.1130355239.30ca24
   ----
   Wednesday, Oct 26, 03:51 p.m.
   Gateway Timeout
   The proxy server did not receive a timely response from the upstream server.
   
   Reference #1.b7e4843.1130356138.3b03b3
   ----
   Wednesday, Oct 26, 04:45 p.m.
   Gateway Timeout
   The proxy server did not receive a timely response from the upstream server.
   
   Reference #1.40e5fcc.1130359459.b688e0
   ----
   Wednesday, Oct 26, 05:11 p.m.
   Gateway Timeout
   The proxy server did not receive a timely response from the upstream server.
   
   Reference #1.30e5fcc.1130361028.504940b
   ----
   I bet that this post will also get a gateway error. (It didn't!)
4. TROUBLE WITH TRACKBACKS: What he said.

All the components of Typepad are slowly deteriorating. Here it is in chronological order.
1st the trackbacks; annoying.
2nd the main page; irritating.
3rd the new post page; vexing.
4th the publish post; why am I paying for this asininity and what's going to be next?

Oh, I remembered another thing. Last week, on Oct. 19, someone wanted to post in the comments here and couldn't. She tried twice. Later, she just emailed me the comment.

What the hell has happened to Typepad?

Your sad and frustrated customer,
Isaac S.

Comments

[basil]

Thanks! While I'm certainly not happy to see anyone having trouble, I'm glad to see someone else not taking it lying down.