The Lingerie Addict announced on Sunday that it was ending publication after more than 14 years.
The founder and editor in chief of the blog wrote in a post that it would be closing down at the end of the month.
A changing online landscape was cited as a reason for closing up shop.
She wrote that the internet is becoming more hostile to her topic and that many people don't necessarily find information from blogs anymore.
It's a constant uphill battle, and one I'm increasingly tired of fighting.
In an interview on Monday, Ms. Harrington said that her content had recently gotten more engagement on platforms beyond the blog, which she says has recently averaged 75,000 to 80,000 visitors a month, compared with the hundreds of thousands of monthly readers the blog attracted in years past.
Ms. Harrington said that she had grown as a person since starting the blog in her early 20s.
Fourteen years is a long time to run a site.
The Lingerie Addict was started in April 2008 by Ms. Harrington after she found a lack of information about lingerie. She saw the platform's potential as an inclusive corner of the internet after housing her informational content.
The Lingerie Addict has always been about being a body-snark-free zone.
She said that the diverse community that she fostered online continues to be active. While comments have slowed on the site itself, interactions with and conversations around Ms. Harrington continue to flourish on social media.
When she announced the news to her 80,000 followers, she was met with a lot of support and praise.
This vocal and visible support that I'm getting from thousands of people who are reading my work and have never felt the need to interact with me, that means so much to me.
A digital media manager in Alexandria, Va., who is a member of The Lingerie Addict's Facebook group, expressed her appreciation for Ms. Harrington's work.
As time goes on and the web gets more fragmented and dominated by social media platforms, an individual site that really loves its subject matter becomes even more meaningful.
The archives, shop and associated Patreon would all remain open despite Ms. Harrington's plan to close the comments on all posts.
She hopes to take some time off before starting work on her second book and eventually creating space for The Lingerie Addict in her life.
I don't want to leave The Lingerie Addict behind, I don't want it to look like I'm dropping everything related to it.
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