Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it
6 days ago
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- Publishing a site on the Internet used to require hosting knowledge and experience with HTML, CSS, and other web languages.
- Blogging and 'Web 2.0' sites in the late '90s and early 2000s simplified hosting, allowing users to focus on content.
- Many early blogging services like LiveJournal, Xanga, Blogger, and WordPress.com still exist today.
- TypePad, a former giant in blogging services, is shutting down on September 30, taking all hosted content with it.
- Users have just over a month to export their content before TypePad's shutdown.
- TypePad stopped allowing new account creation in 2020 and gave no specific reason for the shutdown, calling it a 'difficult decision.'
- As recently as March this year, TypePad representatives claimed there were 'no plans' to shut down the service.