a few platforms are winding down at the same time this year, and the dates are easy to mix up. here's what each vendor actually says, pulled from their own notices, plus what you should export before the window closes.
one note up front: none of these notices give a time zone. if a date matters to you, treat the day before as your real deadline.
solo (soloist.ai)
solo is mozilla's ai website builder, and it's closing for good. from solo's own shutdown faq:
"All Solo websites and data will be deleted on November 30, 2026."
so 30 nov 2026 is both the export deadline and the deletion date. there's no grace period after it. signups are already closed, and solo says refunds are calculated as of 1 oct 2026.
the export lives under account settings > download website data. you get a zip with an html export, a csv of image links, and your contact form and newsletter submissions. the catch is that the images themselves aren't in the zip, only links to them. those links die with solo, so download the actual image files before 30 nov, not after.
also keep the form submissions off any public host. that's your visitors' names and emails.
weebly, but only in 67 countries
this one gets misreported a lot. weebly is not shutting down everywhere. weebly's notice, "changes to weebly global operations", covers 67 countries. if you're outside those, nothing changes for you. check the notice to see if your country is on the list.
if you are affected, here's the timeline:
- new page publishing stopped on 29 jun 2026.
- sites were unpublished on 27 sep 2026, so they're already offline.
- login and export access ends on 26 dec 2026.
that last date is the one that matters now. your site isn't public anymore, but you can still log in and get your content out until 26 dec. after that, the account is gone. if you've been putting it off because the site "already disappeared", it hasn't fully disappeared yet, so go export it.
verizon connect work
not a website builder, but plenty of small field service businesses run on it, so it belongs on the list. verizon's comprehensive faq lays out three stages:
- export by 31 dec 2026. verizon says: "We recommend completing all exports by December 31, 2026." that's also when they want daily operations moved somewhere else.
- from 1 jan 2027 the app becomes read-only. you can still download your archive, but you can't keep working in it.
- final shutdown and data purge on 31 mar 2027.
the read-only stretch is a safety net, not a plan. treat 31 dec as the deadline and the purge date as the point of no return.
what to do this week, whichever one you're on
- log in now and confirm you're on the right account. finding out your site was made under an old email is better in october than on deadline day.
- run the export and open it. a zip you never unzipped isn't a backup.
- check for things that live outside the export, like solo's image links.
- keep customer data private and stored somewhere you control.
- put the deadline in your calendar a few days early.
Written with AI assistance and checked against Solo's Shutdown FAQ (support.soloist.ai), Weebly's "Changes to Weebly global operations" notice (updated 2026-08-13), and Verizon Connect Work's Comprehensive FAQ (updated 2026-09-10).
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