Posted by Fox on August 29, 2007 at 10:50 AM

Following the billing cock up by TypePad that saw one of my UK accounts being suspended and nearly deleted, I thought I'd look in to TypePad's activities in the UK. Specifically, What were they doing to support UK users of their blog platform?

Well f**k me! First thing I discover is that they launched their UK service way back in February of 2005! how the hell did I miss that? Not the actual news of the launch, but the fact that I have 4 TypePad accounts ALL on the USA service.

Somehow, I've managed to sign up all accounts and pay in dollars. Surely some mistake? At no time, was I redirected to a UK version with UK billing. Tut.

I only discovered that there was a UK version when they suspended one of my accounts because the US version no longer process UK credit/debit cards. Nice one! (Read: TypePad billing problem could see your UK blog deleted).

So I can get to the UK version of the TypePad service via typepad.co.uk, but then a few of the pages such as 'features' and 'pricing' are blank for me.

I thought I was being all clever when I discovered a hack for the 'Recently Updated Weblogs' include, that see its only showing recently updated UK blogs, but suspect that bloggers on the UK version get this by default. See here.

I'm pissed off with TypePad. This, on top of my list of TypePad Problems.