Sad to see Blogging platform Typepad is shutting down after 22 years, giving customers about a month to migrate away

Over the weekend, I saw the following referenced in an Email newsletter:

We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. 

What Does This Mean for You? 

After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available. Your account and all related services will be permanently deactivated.   

Please note that after this date, you will no longer be able to access or export any blog content. 

Typepad is shutting down – Everything Typepad

https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html

For those who might never have heard of Typepad, it was (and I guess still technically is) a blogging platform started in 2003. Over the years, Typepad has been used by numerous organizations including Time, MSNBC, Wired, the CBC, the BBC and others. The platform was also used by many individuals who just wanted a place to blog — a place to build their home on the web. Typepad provided a way for people and organizations to tell their stories and it is through those stories that I discovered Typepad and so much more.

Over the 22 years Typepad has been around, many blogging platforms and communities have come and gone. Still, 22 years is quite a long run and there are people who have been blogging on it since its very beginning. Nevertheless, on 08/28, it was announced that the service would be shutting down and that after 09/30, it would no longer be possible to export any content. To be fair, Typepad published an FAQ that discusses different ways of exporting content from their service, however, it still gives their customers only about a month to find a new home on the web, become familiar with how that new home works, and then tackle migrating potentially decades of data.

While I’m saddened to see yet another blogging platform go away, I appreciate the role Typepad has played over the past 22 years in helping organizations and individuals share stories, experiences, and information with the world. For me this is also yet another reminder of how important it is to maintain control and ownership over my content because you never know what might happen, or when it might become necessary to move that content somewhere else.