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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 pnathan »

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…

Yeah, I figured this would happen... but I had hoped that it wouldn't ( I have a couple posterous sites).

Ah well. Guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by a4agarwal »

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.

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by ahoyhere »

jbail wrote: post #6
akurilin wrote: post #3

Any solid alternatives HN could recommend?

Wordpress. That might sound obvious, but it works and it's easy to setup. I left Posterous after they launched Spaces and went back to hosting my own Wordpress install. I host about 20 low traffic sites on a single Bluehost.com shared server that costs under $100 per year. Never had any issues. One click Wordpress install via SimpleScripts. It really doesn't get any easier.

Seconded.

My first regularly updated site in 96 was updated by hand; then I created a daily news site that was custom-roll; then I moved to Movable Type; then I custom-rolled again; somewhere in there I tried Drupal (for a year or so, not just a dalliance); then I used whatever RoR blogging engine was popular; then I got real and moved to Wordpress several years ago and haven't regretted it for more than a couple seconds, here and there. And those seconds of regret were more than made up for by the lack of crap I had to do myself. (And, naturally, nobody can shut MY wordpress blog down since I ran it on my own server and now WPEngine.)

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by bitcartel »

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?

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by n9com »

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.

This is going to ravage blog links on search engines. Not sure why this wasn't announced a year back (although it was widely known this would happen eventually).

Re: Posterous will turn off on April 30

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Post by masnick »

akurilin wrote: post #3

Any solid alternatives HN could recommend?

I wrote about different ways to set up a reliable blog about a year ago. The post is still relevant, except I'd add SquareSpace as a good option and obviously remove the part about Posterous.

See http://www.maxmasnick.com/articles/bulletproof_your_blog

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