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Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by ldng »

helipad wrote: post #10

As a product I was always impressed by the just email, no setup approach. With the current trend towards people posting one-off or irregular essays instead of full-featured blogs, it seems as if they veered away from the simple email posting route too soon. What was once an interesting approach to blogging was pivoted into a samey metaservice with nothing notable for me.

"they veered away from the simple email posting"

IMHO, as a product, this is where they lost their way. This is when I stopped caring. Yet maybe this is where they had to go for a successful exit (read $$$). I don't know.

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by jacquesm »

a4agarwal wrote: post #12
jxf wrote: post #4

The handwriting was on the wall for this when Posterous built data export: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/28/twitter-own-postero... I do give them a lot of credit for providing a means to export data (albeit a somewhat clunky one), because way too many services simply shut down without providing a reasonable way to get your data out. Will also be interesting to see what the "key initiatives" that Posterous wil…

We want to make sure our users can move to other sites easily. If you have suggestions for our exporter, please let me know The XML file in our export can be uploaded to Wordpress.

What are the rough operating costs of posterous?

If you want we could discuss keeping it alive rather than shutting it down (like what I've been doing with http://www.Reocities.com/).

I don't like large gaping holes in the web.

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by minimaxir »

bitcartel wrote: post #17
chrisacky wrote: post #8

To be totally honest, I'm surprised it's taken this long. Everyone knew a year ago when they were acquihired that Posterous would be discontinued. Why do I say this? Well, Twitter's bread and butter is in 140 characters, if they wanted to look at branching out into micro-blogging they wouldn't need to acquire a company, of whom the majority of their customers already use Twitter. (It was borderline a zero-value gain…

Wordpress is for bloggers, Github is for developers. Why not keep things simple?

What about developers who are also bloggers?

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by kristianc »

>> If you want to move your site to another service, WordPress and Squarespace offer importers that can move all of your content over to either service. Just remember: you need to back up your Spaces by April 30.

Oh the irony. Karma's a bitch, huh?

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