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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 jacquesm »

nikcub wrote: post #68
jacquesm wrote: post #61

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I've been keeping reocities alive out of pocket. It costs a few hundred every month in hosting costs and another few hundred in machine write-offs. I got about .37 in bitcoin donations, so I'm a bit short still :) But I think it is well worth doing. I assume hosing posterous would cost a lot more than that so I'd have to find some funding but I'm pretty sure this could be done.

I'd be more than happy to help out if Twitter are willing to do it with Posterous. Register a non-profit and then go out and approach some of the larger co's for funds and/or resources to keep it running forever. Make static backups of these sites using their sitemaps[0] and then ask them to donate or point their domains [0] https://posterous.com/sitemap.xml (warning: 1.5MB)

Hm, that sitemap seems to be limited to 10K entries and it isn't clear how it links to the next level sitemap. I'll get to work on this.

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by glesica »

sbilik wrote: post #130
glesica wrote: post #113

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I use a makefile. Only rebuilds the pages that have been added / modified (which, of course is the point of a makefile in general).

I'm a bit unclear. Do you use a makefile instead of Jekyll/Octopress? Or somehow in combination with it? Yes, I do remember that years ago I read about a static web management system that was makefile-centric, but think it lost popularity as more advanced CMS's came out. Also I have trouble thinking about how a makefile can help you manage the 'Prev' and 'Next" attributes on a page. This is, not only make HTML from t…

I just have a hacky Python script that reads each file, runs it through Jinja and spits it out. That is then managed with a makefile. I don't have any dependencies between pages (next, prev links) so there's no need to touch old pages on build. I've literally never used those features on any blog I've ever read, so I don't care about them. The makefile also generates an index file using the Python script.

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by brown9-2 »

dave1619 wrote: post #110
brown9-2 wrote: post #103

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I'm curious if maybe you are over-estimating the value of placing display ads on (random) blog articles.

That's why I'd love to hear from the founders of Posterous themselves and why they sold, and they state of their company/users when they sold. I'm interested in this field of blogging/self-publishing and want to know what business model can work.

I doubt they would say anything publicly, but it seems like the reported sale price Twitter would be an answer of it's own.

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by eli »

samstave wrote: post #75
RegEx wrote: post #64

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Roll your own! It's fun. My site is a custom made file-based blogging platform written with Python Flask, and it's a joy to use since I made it exactly how I wanted it to be made. One feature that I really enjoy is being able to call source files into the post. This allows me to create/update code snippets extremely easily. Markdown + calling includes on my source files is exactly what I needed to efficiently produce…

What about bloggers that want to be developers? Can you do a writeup/tutorial for your setup?

I just started playing with Hyde as a blog engine, which is a static site generator for Python. So far the only blog posts are about setting it up! http://esd.io/

Flask is very cool too, though, and if you want your sites dynamic, I'd recommend it. I choose Hyde because my eventual goal is speed: I want to see how fast I can get a "real world" page to load.

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by jonpeda »

xfax wrote: post #109

These sort of shenanigans make me wary of using any service that has raised a considerable amount of external funding. Believe it or not, VCs (as opposed to angels) are only in it to get a good return. This frequently forces companies to sell out at the detriment to their customers (given the lack of IPOs as a viable exit option). I get that the founders are in it to make money as well, but don't expect anyone to use…

angels don't want return?

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by xfax »

jonpeda wrote: post #138
xfax wrote: post #109

These sort of shenanigans make me wary of using any service that has raised a considerable amount of external funding. Believe it or not, VCs (as opposed to angels) are only in it to get a good return. This frequently forces companies to sell out at the detriment to their customers (given the lack of IPOs as a viable exit option). I get that the founders are in it to make money as well, but don't expect anyone to use…

angels don't want return?

They do, but they are investing their own money and can choose to value whatever they please (e.g. Social responsibility). VC firms on the other hand have a fiduciary responsibility to their limited partners to maximize returns.

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by [deleted] »

BiosElement wrote: post #100
dreamfactory wrote: post #97

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In other words you're a troll or you don't know how web publishing works :p I'm talking about major news and media organisations. Immediacy has always been a key differentiator in news and financial data for example (look at trading co's who pay a fortune for systems that will shave milliseconds off getting figures from exchanges). A publishing system that isn't at least near real-time isn't a fit for very many use c…

In other words, you're talking about something totally different then this entire topic and are in reality, the actual troll.

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