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Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by zavulon »

pavs wrote: post #8
samwillis wrote: post #3

The two metrics that the article is based on are the number of visitors to the services homepage. On Tumblr you login to the website to post content, Posterous on the other hand uses email and so doesn't get its members visiting all the time to post new content. I think this article is flawed.

tumblr also allows posting by email, not to mention large amount of desktop publishing software that can be used to publish posts on tumblr. I have never used the tumblr homepage to publish blog post and I know quite a few people who doesn't do it either.

I think a better metric would be total number of Tumblr and Posterous and Wordpress blogs in existence.. Anyone has that information?

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by zalew »

Tumblr is easy to love as it seems less obliging from the start. It's dashboard is a prime example of KISS, and it's easy to use most of the features as well as not use them at all. I came to Posterous for it's 'autopost' feature which works really fine and I've used it for some time.

Both apps are great, Posterous webservices integration beats Tumblr, but the latter wins in terms of 'hanging around' browsing stuff from the community and that's probably the key point of their success in stats.

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by telemachos »

zecg wrote: post #13

"Celebrities and big media sites" listed as key to tumblr's recent explosion? No, the secret is the service allowing a HUGE forest of porn compilation sites such as http://art-or-porn.tumblr.com/ and many like it.

What exactly do you mean by "the secret is the service allowing a HUGE forest of porn compilation sites"? That is, does Tumblr actively do something to help porn compilation sites use their service, or do they simply not ban them?

Also, since I often see this mentioned as a difference, does Posterous do something to block porn (however strictly)?

I suppose my real question is "Sure, Tumblr has a lock on the porn market right now, but why?"

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by maxklein »

The problem with Posterous is that the changes they have made over the past 8 months (since I started using it) have been small and irrelevant things (like code highlighting or such stuff).

When I write, I want to be appreciated and I want my writing to reach a big audience. Tumblr achieves that, posterous never made any change in that direction.

Posterous started off cool and fresh, but that initial slew of innovation has not been followed up on. Things like the backtype widget, view count, etc all were there from the start, and later not much new stuff came after that.

Posterous have focused too much on these technical stuff (like CSS buttons), and too little on the social stuff. I write for people to read, not for my page to look good.

Don't get me wrong, I like posterous a lot. But I just think posterous is simple by being limiting.

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by wwortiz »

zavulon wrote: post #11
pavs wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

tumblr also allows posting by email, not to mention large amount of desktop publishing software that can be used to publish posts on tumblr. I have never used the tumblr homepage to publish blog post and I know quite a few people who doesn't do it either.

I think a better metric would be total number of Tumblr and Posterous and Wordpress blogs in existence.. Anyone has that information?

Actually a better but probably a lot harder to get metric would be active blogs as I know I have created an account on all the sites to see how they work.

And don't throw blogger out if you are adding big blogs.

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by nhebb »

I don't post to either, but Tumblr makes it 100x easier to explore content on the site. Posterous doesn't even try - they bury the "Explore" link on the bottom of the home page and clicking that just gets the visitor a list of random and unorganized posts.

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by listic »

maxklein wrote: post #15

The problem with Posterous is that the changes they have made over the past 8 months (since I started using it) have been small and irrelevant things (like code highlighting or such stuff). When I write, I want to be appreciated and I want my writing to reach a big audience. Tumblr achieves that, posterous never made any change in that direction. Posterous started off cool and fresh, but that initial slew of innovati…

On the other hand, I hate social stuff. I write notes in Tumblr for myself, because it looks simple. Occasionally show them to my friends when I want to. I don't want to follow ar be followed by anyone. I don't write in Posterous... why, really?

But I guess, I'm irreleveant.

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by listic »

pavs wrote: post #7

No one in his right mind, outside the HN hivemind, things posterous is a serious challenge to tumblr.

I have no idea what anyone thinks about matters like those outside the HN hivemind. How do you?

I started using Tumblr to jot down my notes because it looked cool and simple. To my regret, a couple times I found new "social" features on my dashboard, but that's it. I was actually afraid that this hobby project will fade away and shut down, unneeded. I was surprised to find it is not so!

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