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Typepad is closed for business

65 points| saaspirant | 5 months ago |typepad.com

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swiftcoder|5 months ago

Is there an explainer somewhere as to why they closed down?

FinnLobsien|5 months ago

I don't think there's a convincing one but I think it's pretty obvious, no?

-These days, people are pretty unlikely to pay just to have a blog when there are tons of free alternatives

-Blogging itself has experienced massive decline with social media & short-form video

-Even if they did want to pivot into a more contemporary model, migrating a stack that old and with that many dependencies would be extremely difficult

Of course it'd be nice to preserve, but I imagine the business was on life support and mainly supported by holdovers and with close to zero new customers.

At some point, you need to close down.

riffic|5 months ago

it's a newfold brand (EIG). that's all I needed to see to explain the shutdown.

justinator|5 months ago

and, livejournal.com is still around.

hnarn|5 months ago

single-handedly financed by ad revenue from people refreshing GRRM's not-blog for updates on the Winds of Winter

pttrn|5 months ago

Just went there to check it out, it opened the front page in Russian(?) for me, even though English was selected in the top right. I re-selected English, it refreshed the page... in Russian. Close tab.