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Re: Typepad is shutting down

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Post by pabs3 »

nonfamous wrote: post #62
scblock wrote: post #2

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

Coincidentally, and fortunately, I was already in the process of migrating a blog with 10 year’s worth of content from TypePad. It’s not enough. TypePad’s export process is awful: the output is a poorly formatted .txt file which is hard to parse reliably. The export process itself fails at least half the time. There’s no export process for images or style files. Automated crawl processes fail. I LOL’ed at this part o…

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

Re: Typepad is shutting down

#82

Post by pabs3 »

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

Guess that is https://bookofjoe.typepad.com/ - adding it to the ArchiveTeam list of blogs to save.

Re: Typepad is shutting down

#83

Post by schlauerfox »

c0balt wrote: post #60
adithyassekhar wrote: post #21

They're using the phrases "deactivated" and "not available to you" a number of times. No mentions of "delete" or "removed" on the page.

My best guess is that they probably will keep the data for a few weeks/months longer for the inevitable users who forgot to archive it and/or missed the announcement.

usually it's an asset in bankruptcy depending on the ToS contract with end users.

Re: Typepad is shutting down

#84

Post by lylo »

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

Wow that's an incredible amount of views. And an incredible shame at the same time.

If you want to try out my app Pagecord (https://pagecord.com) I'd happily try and help you migrate over.

Biggest problem is the death of the *.typepad.com domain though. I wonder if they'd be willing to add 301 redirects for a year or three? One can hope...

Re: Typepad is shutting down

#85

Post by lylo »

pabs3 wrote: post #82
bookofjoe wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Guess that is https://bookofjoe.typepad.com/ - adding it to the ArchiveTeam list of blogs to save.

You're doing great work here!

Re: Typepad is shutting down

#86

Post by bookofjoe »

pabs3 wrote: post #82
bookofjoe wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Guess that is https://bookofjoe.typepad.com/ - adding it to the ArchiveTeam list of blogs to save.

Thank you! This is the up to date site: https://www.bookofjoe.com/

Re: Typepad is shutting down

#87

Post by bookofjoe »

lylo wrote: post #84
bookofjoe wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Wow that's an incredible amount of views. And an incredible shame at the same time. If you want to try out my app Pagecord ( https://pagecord.com ) I'd happily try and help you migrate over. Biggest problem is the death of the *.typepad.com domain though. I wonder if they'd be willing to add 301 redirects for a year or three? One can hope...

Thank you. I'm not gonna bother migrating because when I tried about 10 years ago it was a total thrash/FAIL.

>I wonder if they'd be willing to add 301 redirects for a year or three? One can hope...

From my painful experience with them of over two decades re: failing to do stuff they should've been doing, I would estimate the likelihood of them even responding to a request like that now is an imaginary number.

Re: Typepad is shutting down

#88

Post by bookofjoe »

lylo wrote: post #84
bookofjoe wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Wow that's an incredible amount of views. And an incredible shame at the same time. If you want to try out my app Pagecord ( https://pagecord.com ) I'd happily try and help you migrate over. Biggest problem is the death of the *.typepad.com domain though. I wonder if they'd be willing to add 301 redirects for a year or three? One can hope...

Just subscribed to pagecord Premium!

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Re: Typepad is shutting down

#89

Post by lylo »

bookofjoe wrote: post #88
lylo wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow that's an incredible amount of views. And an incredible shame at the same time. If you want to try out my app Pagecord ( https://pagecord.com ) I'd happily try and help you migrate over. Biggest problem is the death of the *.typepad.com domain though. I wonder if they'd be willing to add 301 redirects for a year or three? One can hope...

Just subscribed to pagecord Premium! https://pagecord.com/app/posts You are currently subscribed to Pagecord Premium. Thank you! Your next payment of $29 will be taken on August 28, 2026.

Wow, thanks :)

Re: Typepad is shutting down

#90

Post by selinkocalar »

nd of an era. Typepad was one of the first platforms that made blogging accessible to non-technical people. There's something poignant about these early web platforms shutting down. They enabled so much creativity and community building before social media centralized everything. Makes you think about platform risk. How many businesses built their entire web presence on Typepad? Now they're scrambling to migrate years of content. This is why we prioritize data portability in everything we build. You should always be able to leave.
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