Oh no, I just hopped aboard the Posterous train a couple of weeks ago. Seems like a lot of folks in this thread are recommending tumblr instead.
Right, because Tumblr never goes down.
Twitter-Owned Posterous Loses Databases, Offline for 2 Hours Plus
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#12whats the best way to dump all my content ? I've looked at their json api but was hoping someone has written an easy script to convert this to something usable to replace my blog/personal page.
i imported all my posterous, other blogs stuff into jekyll: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations (mind you, the original posterous migration from jekyll does not work anymore, so you will have to use this one https://github.com/pepijndevos/jekyll/blob/patch-1/lib/jekyl... ) then with jekyll you can host your blog as github pages - this, to me, seems like the best option to anything that is out there…
I can attest to doing the same. Now i'm on jekyll+S3 and haven't looked back - it's great! Having said that, the jekyll posterous image exporter i couldn't get to work. But i don't post many photos so that didn't worry me.
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#13whats the best way to dump all my content ? I've looked at their json api but was hoping someone has written an easy script to convert this to something usable to replace my blog/personal page.
I have written a small static blog engine/cms which can (or at least could) export your blog from Posterous. You'll get it out as html, I think. https://github.com/hanssonlarsson/diurna
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#14whats the best way to dump all my content ? I've looked at their json api but was hoping someone has written an easy script to convert this to something usable to replace my blog/personal page.
i imported all my posterous, other blogs stuff into jekyll: https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll/wiki/Blog-Migrations (mind you, the original posterous migration from jekyll does not work anymore, so you will have to use this one https://github.com/pepijndevos/jekyll/blob/patch-1/lib/jekyl... ) then with jekyll you can host your blog as github pages - this, to me, seems like the best option to anything that is out there…
I'm a big fan of octopress now, which is just jekyll with some rake tasks and plugins already set up to make things even easier to get started.. https://github.com/imathis/octopress
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#15I liked Posterous for its e-mail posting, connection to YC, and easy-ish theme editor. Unfortunately, my experience has degraded significantly since I first started blogging regularly on Posterous, with most of the degradation occurring after the acquisition. For example, my embedded YouTube videos demonstrating my Kinect-powered home automation system are no longer embedded in my older blog posts! Modifying old post…
[Too late to edit:] In fairness to Posterous, I should note that my embedded YouTube videos were failing in Linux on both Chrome (no addons) and Firefox (many addons), but seem to be working again in Firefox on Windows (also many addons). So, it could have been a temporary issue related to their database problems.
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#16I don't think tweeting that you've "lost a database" without any additional context is a very good idea. I'm going to guess that they meant the database was temporarily unavailable to their application servers, but it could easily be interpreted to mean that they had suffered massive data loss with no backups.
Well, maybe that's _exactly_ what they meant...
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#17whats the best way to dump all my content ? I've looked at their json api but was hoping someone has written an easy script to convert this to something usable to replace my blog/personal page.
RSS, will work for your posts, most CMS/Blog systems have the feature to import from a RSS feed, in my case I'm using django-zinnia.
$ python manage.py feed2zinnia http://blog.grupones.com.bo/rss.xml
I'm looking into the API to export users and subscribers, once I have that will be all. (Right now the posterous api site is down)
However I must say, I'm not happily moving out, I love posterous, I will miss email integration, and user management. It's nothing that I can made by myself, but was nice having that features with out developing.
PD: There is also this guy → https://exportmyposts.jazzychad.net/ that made a more complete backup using posterous API, you can buy it starting from 9$us. There is nothing someone can develop using the posterous API
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#18whats the best way to dump all my content ? I've looked at their json api but was hoping someone has written an easy script to convert this to something usable to replace my blog/personal page.
RSS, will work for your posts, most CMS/Blog systems have the feature to import from a RSS feed, in my case I'm using django-zinnia. $ python manage.py feed2zinnia http://blog.grupones.com.bo/rss.xml And it's ready. I'm looking into the API to export users and subscribers, once I have that will be all. (Right now the posterous api site is down) However I must say, I'm not happily moving out, I love posterous, I will…
I'm a very happy Jazzychad customer. His export works great, and he's extremely responsive to feedback and bug reports.
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#19I don't think tweeting that you've "lost a database" without any additional context is a very good idea. I'm going to guess that they meant the database was temporarily unavailable to their application servers, but it could easily be interpreted to mean that they had suffered massive data loss with no backups.
Don't read into it so much. Losing a database means losing a database. It doesn't imply that there are no backups. Furthermore, how much detail can you really put in 140 characters? A detailed blog post would be nice but if Posterous is a small company with a handful of employees I'd say sending out a Tweet and getting back to work is a better option than spending that time explaining the specifics of what happened. That should come when it's fixed.
By the way, anyone else getting a 503 error when connecting to posterous.com? Are they still down?
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#20Posterous was a great service until a couple of years ago. It was such a neat idea: combine blogging with mailing lists. It was simple and easy. Then they began to have multiple problems. Email notifications would fail to arrive from time to time. Various over-ajaxed functions, including composing a new post and various administrative pages, stopped working on one or another browser. I had to use Chrome whenever I vi…
i agree - loved posterous until they started the spaces thing
from there it went downhill, have exported by posterous blog into octopress - and havent looked back
if there are any other posterous people looking to jump to octopress i've setup http://p.ostero.us to make the move to markdown/hosted octopress painless
cheers
justin -- http://p.ostero.us