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Posterous takes on Tumblr
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Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a major bone to pick with your characterization of Posterous themes. I hardly think the theme community is unhappy about suddenly being able to use their themes on millions of other blogs that aren't Tumblr. Also, the themes that we build into our service are 100% licensed via partnership with the theme designers. Attacking the ability to use Tumblr themes in Posterous is absurd. It's like saying Google Apps i…
Some honest feedback from a long time hacker news participant and innocent bystander... It looks like pclark is providing feedback of some kind to a product represented by rantfoil, who is responding. I have no opinion about the issues being discussed in this thread, in fact I'm not sure I even understand many of them. But this much I do understand... rantfoil, you appear to be arguing in a public forum. Don't. By de…
Agreed, I've gone from being curious and neutral/positive about posterous and how they were thinking about making money (ie: solving the "how do you get users to pay for their own content" problem), but now I'm completely turned off to the company because of the way I've seen them respond to criticism over the last week or two. Not that I'm looking for a blogging service, but I'd rather be on one that was run by adults if I was.
Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a major bone to pick with your characterization of Posterous themes. I hardly think the theme community is unhappy about suddenly being able to use their themes on millions of other blogs that aren't Tumblr. Also, the themes that we build into our service are 100% licensed via partnership with the theme designers. Attacking the ability to use Tumblr themes in Posterous is absurd. It's like saying Google Apps i…
Some honest feedback from a long time hacker news participant and innocent bystander... It looks like pclark is providing feedback of some kind to a product represented by rantfoil, who is responding. I have no opinion about the issues being discussed in this thread, in fact I'm not sure I even understand many of them. But this much I do understand... rantfoil, you appear to be arguing in a public forum. Don't. By de…
Eh, its cool to be passionate about your own startup - I didn't realize rantfoil was the founder. :)
As I said, I think Posterous is a cool company and they're better than this. I didn't want to ruffle anyones feathers, just state my opinion on these kinds of messages to users. He was probably right about my comments on their theme policy, he certainly knows better than I do, I tried to clarify my post a bit. We should be glad we're having a discussion about this - maybe we all learn something :)
Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some honest feedback from a long time hacker news participant and innocent bystander... It looks like pclark is providing feedback of some kind to a product represented by rantfoil, who is responding. I have no opinion about the issues being discussed in this thread, in fact I'm not sure I even understand many of them. But this much I do understand... rantfoil, you appear to be arguing in a public forum. Don't. By de…
Eh, its cool to be passionate about your own startup - I didn't realize rantfoil was the founder. :) As I said, I think Posterous is a cool company and they're better than this. I didn't want to ruffle anyones feathers, just state my opinion on these kinds of messages to users. He was probably right about my comments on their theme policy, he certainly knows better than I do, I tried to clarify my post a bit. We shou…
I'm a hacker, just like all of you. It's hard for me to avoid having an emotional response over something I've poured my soul into.
Mea culpa. Edw, you're right. Pclark, thanks for the feedback.
Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr
#55Yeah, it's a stretch/sketchy campaign, but at least they're taking the gloves off, right? I personally am frustrated by the quirky Tumblr features (after many tries, I still don't get the formatting of reblogging) and miss plain on comments (when they don't have Disqus installed). Will be interesting to see which of the easy-blog-tools wins out. Right now, my bet would be on Tumblr.
I don't know, personally, I'm frustrated by Posterous too. They're adding one useless features after another, but that email posting still cannot get even such a basic thing as paragraphs right. Just piles of br's after each line. And they are converting every nonascii character to HTML escape sequences. So after each post, I have to edit unreadable crap full of HTML escapes to put there at least that paragraphs (bec…
I hear you on the email cleanup thing. We've put some measures in place to clean up markup, but there's much more to do here. If you have more feedback, I'd love to hear it -- my email is garry@posterous.com
We're a work in progress like any other. But we're iterating as fast as we can.
Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr
#56Yeah, it's a stretch/sketchy campaign, but at least they're taking the gloves off, right? I personally am frustrated by the quirky Tumblr features (after many tries, I still don't get the formatting of reblogging) and miss plain on comments (when they don't have Disqus installed). Will be interesting to see which of the easy-blog-tools wins out. Right now, my bet would be on Tumblr.
I don't know, personally, I'm frustrated by Posterous too. They're adding one useless features after another, but that email posting still cannot get even such a basic thing as paragraphs right. Just piles of br's after each line. And they are converting every nonascii character to HTML escape sequences. So after each post, I have to edit unreadable crap full of HTML escapes to put there at least that paragraphs (bec…
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Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr
#57This is a really low blow. This is what companies do when they are clutching at straws - they spread misinformation. Considering: * Most tumblr themes have Disqus integration, and the "tumblr way" to comment is via reblog. * Multiple people can contribute to Tumblr blogs, I can also submit posts even if I'm not a user, and ask the authors questions (formspring style) * I can also password protect my Tumblr. They also…
> * I can also password protect my Tumblr. Hehehe...
Huh?
Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
> * I can also password protect my Tumblr. Hehehe...
Huh?
Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr
#59The timing of this is unfortunate.
I imagine that there is a way to prevent the "post via email" hack demonstrated last week but I haven't seen an official response from Posterous (they could send me an email?) which says to me that they don't take the threat seriously.
I enjoyed having Posterous feed my entire online presence (twitter, facebook, etc.) but I turned this all off in the wake of the exploit.
I'm sure there is a way to "fix" this, but I don't have time to try and figure it out myself; so it's easier to just turn it off until Posterous has time to tell me how to do it.
Now we have this marketing campaign and a "we're the greatest" and "we can do everything" attitude; it feels very "going Facebook" to me...
I think it's time to go find "the next".
Re: Posterous takes on Tumblr
#60Boiling tumblr to a set of bullet points /entirely/ misses the point.