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So long, and thanks for all the fish

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TypePad is shutting down on September 30, 2025 and this also means the end of this blog

So long, and thanks for all the fishRecently, TypePad announced that it will discontinue its services effective as of September 30, 2025. This blog used TypePad as a blogging platform since the blog started in 2009.

Bad news: with TypePad shutting down, this blog will also go away for good.

I admit, I haven’t done much on this blog for a long time (except for one new post some days ago), so this blog was already sleeping for quite a while.

That being said, since 2009, I published a total of 176 articles here, focussing on data visualization, dashboards, techniques and tricks using Microsoft Excel and Tableau. All content was provided for free. No ads. All workbooks for free download. No strings attached.

All this content will be gone soon. So, if you are still interested in surfing through the blog posts and downloading some maybe helpful workbooks, time is running out. As of today, you have a little more than 4 weeks left.

Finally, please bear with me that I can’t acknowledge all the people by name, who helped me during this great journey of blogging. They are just too many.

So, to all of you who contributed guest posts, supported me by reviewing my drafts, linked to my blog on your own sites, mentioned me on LinkedIn or elsewhere, commented or simply read my posts: thank you so much!

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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2 responses to “So long, and thanks for all the fish”

  1. Ran Barton Avatar
    Ran Barton

    Thank you for all this. Quite a few other blog platforms have migration tools – you could very likely save all this content from deletion, which would be so much better than having it vanish.

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  2. Robert Avatar
    Robert

    Ran,
    many thanks for your comment and your kind words.
    I am aware of the options to migrate the blog, but this seems to be quite an effort. The texts and even the comments can be exported from TypePad and imported to e.g. WordPress in only a few steps. The challenge are the images and the download files and download links. I read there is a WordPress plug in which automatically imports the images, but I do not know if there is something similar for the downloads.
    Furthermore, TypePad gave us only 5 weeks between the notice about and the effectiveness of the shutdown. Not much time to do the migration of a personal blog.
    Against that background, I will probably not migrate the content. I am sorry. It saddens me more than anyone else, believe me.

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