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Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by jjice »

evanelias wrote: post #3

They stopped accepting new users ~5 years ago, so it's hardly a surprise... but I'm still bummed to see this. Even so, 22 years is a good run!

I initially thought that the 30ish day notice was too low, but that definitely softens it.

Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by Swizec »

deelowe wrote: post #8
coolgoose wrote: post #5

Was this just not profitable? Or not vc extra growth profitable?

Does anyone read blogs anymore? Social media seems to have completely replaced them.

> Does anyone read blogs anymore?

Yes. We call them newsletters now. Podcasts, if they're audio. Many are both.

Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by chipotle_coyote »

Alex3917 wrote: post #6
coolgoose wrote: post #5

Was this just not profitable? Or not vc extra growth profitable?

I have no doubt that it wasn't vc profitable, but my assumption (without any inside info) is that the real issue is that they were using some hacked up version of Movable Type that they couldn't upgrade. It's frustrating though because imho it's arguably still the best blog platform to this day.

Movable Type is, perhaps shockingly, still being actively developed; version 9 is coming out later this year. I’m not sure who the customer base is at this point—some years ago, they dropped the open source version and personal pricing and went to a very enterprise-ish $499/yr model—but I guess somebody is still giving them money.

Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by bayindirh »

deelowe wrote: post #8
coolgoose wrote: post #5

Was this just not profitable? Or not vc extra growth profitable?

Does anyone read blogs anymore? Social media seems to have completely replaced them.

My blog’s stats show that there is a sizable readership.

Considering I also follow a few blogs, there are a silent crowd who reads blogs.

Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by MarcelOlsz »

deelowe wrote: post #8
coolgoose wrote: post #5

Was this just not profitable? Or not vc extra growth profitable?

Does anyone read blogs anymore? Social media seems to have completely replaced them.

I would I just have no idea how to get everything I want to read in one place. Yeah sure RSS etc.

Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by taude »

deelowe wrote: post #8
coolgoose wrote: post #5

Was this just not profitable? Or not vc extra growth profitable?

Does anyone read blogs anymore? Social media seems to have completely replaced them.

Yeup. I just went through my Feedly, currated my lists, and even started poking at some other RSS readers.

RSS is still alive, and if you're the type of person who doesn't just want the alg telling you what to look at next, then it's still valuable.

There's some many content creators right now, for example, who are specializing in sharing AI knowledge.

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Post by wrs »

deelowe wrote: post #8
coolgoose wrote: post #5

Was this just not profitable? Or not vc extra growth profitable?

Does anyone read blogs anymore? Social media seems to have completely replaced them.

Maybe someone can do a query of URLs posted to HN to see how many are blogs, but...it's a lot of them.

Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by _verandaguy »

Alex3917 wrote: post #7
scblock wrote: post #2

September 30 is a pretty small window to migrate. Hopefully it's enough.

At least with LLMs, we can just write a query to migrate the export to whatever target format we want. The main issue is just breaking 20 years worth of inbound links.

Was this somehow not doable without LLMs? It's trivial data massaging.
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