So long, Sayonara. Typepad, the original blogging tool is going away…
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.
What Do You Need to Do?
If you need to retain your content, please export your content before September 30, 2025. After this date, your content will no longer be accessible to you and will not be available for export.
Full article, HERE from Typepad site. h/t Ag Tiger.
If you’re an old school blogger, you might have started/used/or still use Typepad. It was the first real blogging program back in the day.
Now it’s going away. If you still have anything over there, you have until the end of the month to go recover your data. The way to do that can be found at their website.
Sigh… seems like all the ‘stuff’ we started with, Typepad, Netscape, and a bunch of other ‘programs’ are now dead. Not that I will EVER miss Word Perfect… Grrr…
Anyhoo, it’s time (or past time) to move on. Highly recommend Open Office.
Yeah, Word (im)Perfect sucked. I still miss MacWrite, simple no nonsense writing program. If you needed to dress up your document there was always Adobe Pagemaker. Unfortunately, Mr. Gates sold us Featureus Maximus Blotus AKA MSWord, and the world was never the same.
anybody remember the Wang WPS word processing computer? late 70’s to early 80’s… 5″ floppy storage and a CRT display. First word processor I ever used …
I remember those! Basically a specialized single-application computer. The advent of the first home pc’s (Radio Shack TRS-80’s, Atari 400 and 800’s, Commodore 64s) sounded the death-knell for things like the Wang WPS because the home computers could do so much more and had hundreds, even thousands of software programs you could run, just swap out the diskette and load the new program.
IBM’s PC and the clones that followed really drove the stake through the heart of single-application hardware though.
Thanks for spreading the word about Typepad going away.
Re office suites and OpenOffice: I use and recommend LibreOffice. It’s a fork of OpenOffice that’s being actively developed and maintained, and it performs wonderfully.
Whatever works for you though, that’s what’s important.
NRW- That he did…sigh
Ag- Yep! No problem on letting folks know, it was just that other things kept ‘jumping’ the line. LibreOffice is also good!
I go all the way back to Word* (WordStar). That piece of software made Emacs and Vi seem friendly and intuitive.
Libre Office is my go to. Then again I use Linux, not Windows.
McC- Oh…I’d conveniently ‘forgotten’ that one…
Feral- Thanks!
Years on, I still miss Netscape. IMHO it was a very good browsing interface and better/easier to use than what is now prevalent.