@jalefkowit They did have a paid, hosted offering -- was it Typepad?? They needed to lean into that and do the hosting for commercial MT users.
They needed to sell the service, not the software.
Hosting busy sites was a nightmare, and this was in the heat of the blogging explosion.
I guess WordPress caught up pretty quickly. They lagged on multi-site, but everything else seemed to work better pretty quickly.
@passthejoe Oh man, they had TOO MANY hosted offerings. There was TypePad, Vox, and then eventually LiveJournal. Too many arrows, not enough wood for any of them