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Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by unsungNovelty »

hombre_fatal wrote: post #41

Does anyone have convincing macro ideas about why blogging died? Or maybe a link to some high level historian insights of the era? Like the days where it seemed like everyone maintained a Blogger site and wrote longer form content? Maybe it's more because blogging was a fluke to begin with. Kind of like in my junior high (2002?) every kid had an online journal (Xanga) that died when we moved to sharing those thoughts…

I don't think blogging is dead. It just moved on to different places. Non-tech majorly moved to 3rd party sites like Medium, Dev.to, Hashnode, Bearblog, Substack and ghost etc. And technical Folks moatly to SSGs.

And it's not the only method anymore. We are far more connected as far as social media is concerned so it might feel like blogging is dead.

I mean, most posts I click are individual blogs here in HN. WordPress blogs kind of things just moved to 3rd party sites like medium etc I mentioned above. Hosting WordPress blogs were easier then. Now it's using Medium, Substack where you can make money as well.

I wrote about this a while ago. Where I share a lot more links of independent blog scenes- https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/10/2024/life-of-a-blog-b...

Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by pabs3 »

jonnytran wrote: post #70

Somebody save Kathy Sierra’s blog! https://headrush.typepad.com/ I’ll try to archive it. I love her work. But even if I save it, it should live on somewhere else.

Submitted an ArchiveBot job for it:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot

Click here if you want to help preserve all of TypePad when the DPoS starts:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveTeam_Warrior

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Post by pabs3 »

nikcub wrote: post #66

Just dug up my old Typepad blog and cringed at the 20 year old content, but definitely have to take a backup because I also used the photo album feature. We blogged back then more how we use Twitter today - short form thought bubble content, but it feels a lot more personal (hence the cringe - I can't imagine posting in public like that today). This is a dead horse topic but so much of social media today is rage bait…

Which URL is it? ArchiveBot can save it to archive.org.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot

Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by bookofjoe »

lylo wrote: post #55

Is anyone here affected by this? I'd be surprised but I'm curious

Me. I've been on Typepad since I started my blog in 2004. Even though it's clunky I've been able to use it for 21+ years.

Moving to Ghost now, will see what happens, but I'm not optimistic.

Over 24 million page views, lost in the ether....

https://imgur.com/a/mHBQBGD

Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by bookofjoe »

bookofjoe wrote: post #78
lylo wrote: post #55

Is anyone here affected by this? I'd be surprised but I'm curious

Me. I've been on Typepad since I started my blog in 2004. Even though it's clunky I've been able to use it for 21+ years. Moving to Ghost now, will see what happens, but I'm not optimistic. Over 24 million page views, lost in the ether.... https://imgur.com/a/mHBQBGD

first Ghost post: https://bookofjoe.ghost.io/

Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by pabs3 »

dazzaji wrote: post #37

Wow - I'd forgotten all about this but just realized I have posts from an entire phase of earlier professional life - topic by topic and event by event - on an old blog there. Amazingly the browser remembered my login so I was able to find the URL. It's been quite a trip down memory lane revisiting some of the posts. Not sure I need to keep any of that published but I'll at least scrape and store it somewhere for old…

Whats the URL? ArchiveTeam is planning on saving all the blogs to archive.org.
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