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Re: Posterous - Beacon of Data Portability

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Post by benwr »

As far as I'm aware, Posterous has done nothing to actively discourage migration of information away from their service, and they certainly haven't threatened legal action on anyone for moving their online information around.

Re: Posterous - Beacon of Data Portability

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Post by techtruth »

benwr wrote: post #2

As far as I'm aware, Posterous has done nothing to actively discourage migration of information away from their service, and they certainly haven't threatened legal action on anyone for moving their online information around.

I am simply asking Posterous to take moral high ground. Give a feature where people can export their posts in standard data formats. then go ahead and target your competitors.

Re: Posterous - Beacon of Data Portability

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Post by steveklabnik »

I was actually considering making such a tool, because I'm pretty sure that I'm moving away from Posterous in the near future.

I'm sure if I do, I'll put it up on GitHub. The biggest concern I have is not only getting the content of posts, but being able to make a .htaccess with redirects so that I don't lose my google juice.

Re: Posterous - Beacon of Data Portability

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Post by lyime »

techtruth wrote: post #3
benwr wrote: post #2

As far as I'm aware, Posterous has done nothing to actively discourage migration of information away from their service, and they certainly haven't threatened legal action on anyone for moving their online information around.

I am simply asking Posterous to take moral high ground. Give a feature where people can export their posts in standard data formats. then go ahead and target your competitors.

You can easily get all the data from XML feeds. Or you can use their API to get all the data out through XML or JSON. Both are standard formats. I am pretty sure no one offers a export my data function. Not even Tumblr.

Re: Posterous - Beacon of Data Portability

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Post by techtruth »

lyime wrote: post #6
techtruth wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am simply asking Posterous to take moral high ground. Give a feature where people can export their posts in standard data formats. then go ahead and target your competitors.

You can easily get all the data from XML feeds. Or you can use their API to get all the data out through XML or JSON. Both are standard formats. I am pretty sure no one offers a export my data function. Not even Tumblr.

I dont know about Tumblr. but wordpress & livejournal supports metaweblog i think. may be tumblr should support it as well.

Re: Posterous - Beacon of Data Portability

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Post by bosch »

If Posterous wants to be a STAND UP company, they'll post information and a tool(not just XML or API) on how to migrate away FROM Posterous. Then they can go and write importers for other sites.

I'm sick of all these companies talking shit but not being able to back it up when they say they're looking out for the user!

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