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Posterous used to be: Tumblr that worked, with better third-party service integration. Not sure what it is now. That's a problem. I've stopped recommending it to people because I can't summarize it like this anymore.
just checked, and it still loses photos. I guess they were to busy being social to care about it.
I asked - "Can I ask why not just have a "manage Posts" button, menu item, or tab on the opening page after signin? Thought the idea was "ease of use"."
The response - "We do appreciate the feedback and will consider it for future updates, but it is not the direction the developers have chosen to take at this time."
Puzzling because I've never heard a company say that "ease of use" was NOT the direction they intended to go.
Disappointed blogger, looking to move on.
Posterous should have taken notes from previous sharing sites/functions: Facebook, Digg, MySpace, Google Buzz, etc.
If you change things drastically, your userbase gets mad, and they seek out alternatives. I tend to see social sharing sites as a home online. You put many of your meaningful items there, and you get comfortable with a certain layout, a given set of functionalities, etc. If someone were to come and redecorate/reorganize your room or house without your permission, you'd probably be a little upset.
Facebook eventually mastered the art of introducing change into its site. Nudging the user to try something new ("X of your friends are using the new layout. Join them!") instead of forcing it on them seems to be a better policy.
"Posterous Spaces" sounds just like Google+'s "Circles". I never used Posterous for blogging anyway, but surely this is bound to piss off the bloggers already using their service? Unless "Spaces" is just an extension to their blogging platform, and the title is misleading.
You can still use Posterous Spaces as a public blog. Each space can be public or private. We're solving a similar problem as google circles. The basic difference is that Posterous Spaces are symmetric sharing so all members of a space can post.
Sure these changes may still allow them to do the same thing but the shift in terminology and organisation will be hinting to people the direct things are going which is away from their use case.
Granted this new niche might be a good direction, the HN crowd are hardly a good sample of opinions for something like this.
I can't even delete a page. Gutted because I moved a lot of stuff here from Slinkset (which was awesome, although not a blogging platform). I had to because Slinkset closed down after being bought up by Posterous (why buy something so you can destroy it ? What am I missing here ?). Now I have to work out how to move everything on again. Let's hope Posterous are as amenable about you exporting your blogs to other platforms as they are about you importing them.
I'm tired of this sort of thing.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.