Typepad Shutting Down
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.
The export will produce a single TXT file for each blog. The file format is MTIF which is supported by some other blogging platforms, including WordPress.
This blog is named Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 3. I may be a theatre geek, but I’m not a fan of the three-act structure. The name came about because there were first and second acts preceding it. The first act was on Windows Live Spaces (long since dead and gone) back in the day before I ever thought of this as something I’d enjoy doing. Then there was a Life on the Wicked Stage: Act 2 on Typepad.
Well all plays, regardless of act structure have an ending. The curtain is coming down on that second act in the same way it did on the first one.
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Everything in the corporeal world reverts back to dust. So do all the bits in the digital one.
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I remember helping a cow-orker set up Moveable Type in 2005. Even then it felt old and awkward, and the licensing kerfuffle turned a lot of people off. mod_perl/Apache CGI was a bit of a hassle if you were new, and the two-step "publish, then update cache" cycle may have made sense for performance, but the interface didn't help new users adjust to the idea.
I know the product evolved but I'm amazed TypePad lasted as long as it did. Fun fact: Paul Schindler of the Computer Chronicles is amongst those who stuck with it. (psacot, typepad, com)
