I am not totally upset that my favorite blogging site decided to shut down. After all, it was the main site I've used since 2009, and learned all the tricks of what blogging is all about.
Even though I've been blogging in one way or another since 2004 in other venues, during my early Typepad blogging days, something told me to start saving my blog posts on an external hard drive. I am glad I did. In hindsight, backing up my content was a very wise decision on my part. It would be a herculean job to save all the blog posts and pictures I included on all those posts, after so many years.
Yes, Typepad was an excellent paid, subscription blogging service, but reality is that they ceased operations last night (September 30, 2025) and permanently deleted all user content. I don't plan to dwell too much on it, life moves on. Blogspot has been a great blogging outlet for me, so far. And best of all, it is free.
Typepad blogging platform is dead, long live Blogspot.
