When people ask me what the best blog software is, I say Movable Type. Which is a shame, because it hasn’t been available to mere mortals like us for a long time. It feels as though the last nail in the coffin was just nailed into the coffin: We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025. Time to post this response yet again: not surprising, but still a shame. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2025-08-28.