Weebly wind-down under Square (2025) — frozen features, removed mobile app, users report 100s of hours of manual re-entry

Claim: Weebly under Square's ownership shows the full discontinuation pattern: feature development frozen, mobile app removed December 1, 2025, forced migration to Square Online, and users reporting hundreds of hours of manual re-entry alongside incomplete data export.

Source: Square / Block communications; affected-customer reports.

Confidence: Verified / Industry-consensus.

Why this matters for Candid: The most concrete current example of vendor-driven exit. When a client asks "what's the worst case if my builder gets acquired?" — this is the worst case, and it happened to live customers in the last 18 months. Cross-link Platform-discontinuation historical analogues — Apple iWeb (2011), Adobe Muse (2020), AppDrag (2025) for the longer arc.