Typepad, a blogging service that launched in the same year as WordPress, has announced that it’s shutting down on September 30. “We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad,” its team said in a post. Several major publications used it as a backend for their websites in its early years, and it even released an app in 2008, but it soon fell behind WordPress in popularity. The service stopped accepting new signups sometime in 2020 but continued supporting its old customers. One user contacted Typepad back in March this year and was told that Typepad still supports its “existing customers and there are no plans for that to change,” so shutting it down was a recent decision.
After September 30, users will no longer be able to access their account management settings, their blogs and all associated content. Everything will be deactivated permanently. They will, however, be able to export their content before September 30 in Movable Type Import Format, which they can then upload to WordPress. Typepad will stop charging users for subscription starting on August 31, and if a user has recently made a payment, it “will attempt to issue a prorated refund to the payment method on file.” There are probably only a few people still using Typepad these days, but let’s pour one out for the old blogging service.
