Forthcoming RIP: the Typepad blogging service

[thewayne]

At the end of September, Typepad goes dark. And with it, all of the blogs that have been accumulated over the last 22 years.

Interestingly, their front page has buttons for Start Now and Pricing & Sign Up, but they stopped taking new accounts several years ago while reassuring then-current users that the service would continue on. At least until the end of September.

Their Need Help? page has info about the shutdown, including refunds for people who have paid beyond the shutdown date and information on exporting your blog.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/one-time-wordpress-competitor-typepad-ends-its-slide-into-obscurity-by-shutting-down/

Comments

[disneydream06]

Sad...
Makes me think about LJ and DW. 😲
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

I have no particular attachment to it.  I occasionally encountered blogs on it, but was never a poster or regular reader on it.  But it was a bit of a legend.

[silveradept]

It was one of the first places where you could get hosted blogging, instead of having to do all the work to set up something like Movable Type yourself on your own domain. It's too bad that they're crashing out like this.