Typepad Is Closed for Business
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Typepad, a once-popular blogging platform, has shut down, prompting nostalgia and questions about its demise among the HN community.
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I'm not saying use it, but it is still there.
There's a US-based fork: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamwidth
-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.
I mean, it's funny how things are going. Google, Twitter and even Facebook started with really open websites, but then started closing off more and more of "their" portion of the web. And now their dream has paid off: the open web is more or less gone.
And the winner is (or might very well be) Tiktok and ChatGPT.
Well done, guys. Brilliant strategy. Perhaps you should get a big bonus this year.
Typepad is shutting down https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45041807