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Posterous and URLs

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Re: Posterous and URLs

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Post by fookyong »

jeb wrote: post #19

Just setup htaccess on your original server to redirect to the new URLs. If you care so much about google juice, then you can spend a day doing this, instead of requiring posterous to solve the problem for you.

how?

DNS will resolve to posterous' servers. It's out of your old server's control by that point.

Unless you're talking about different domains, e.g. moving from

mycoolblog.com self hosted -> myawesomeblog.com on posterous

in that case you could do what you said, but I don't think that's what the OP is talking about. the issue is when you use the same domain on both.

Re: Posterous and URLs

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Re: Posterous and URLs

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Post by ydant »

Agreed. That and dates in URLs (or at least search by date) would be handy. I just migrated a blog over and ran into the same issue. In my case, I was ok with changing domains as well, so I set up a load of redirects on the old one to the new one. It's not a perfect solution and it missed some, but it'll work for now.

Re: Posterous and URLs

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Post by ydant »

a4agarwal wrote: post #14

1. I hope we add this soon 2. I'm going to take my chances among the HN community and say: I think this is low priority because i. Most other services don't even offer import. Posterous offers import from (soon to be) 15+ services. this is not easy ii. Posterous supports all different post/media types so that we can import from so many different services. We put our focus here iii. I care about sharing with my family…

Switching URLs is nothing like switching shortcuts. The impact is one person on switching keyboard shortcuts, but if I switch around URLs I'm impacting hundreds (or thousands).

I'm no "pro blogger" by any means, but I have a couple of posts (that were migrated from stand-alone pages) that get a decent amount of traffic. A large portion of that traffic is from forums, other blog posts, and the like. Not from "Google juice". To change that URL means I'd have to contact all of those people - hardly workable.

I don't really care about the page rank, but I have content people find useful and I want them to continue to be able to find it.

Re: Posterous and URLs

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Post by ydant »

jrnkntl wrote: post #8
pablohoffman wrote: post #3

I also find annoying that Posterous, for some reason, appends numeric suffixes arbitrarily to certain post slugs (for example: http://blog.pablohoffman.com/hi-posterous-58 ). It's like they have to make the post slug "globally unique", instead of "unique per blog", although they shouldn't have to. It wouldn't be that bad if you could change the slug/url but, as the article correctly points out, you can't.

This is indeed a namespace thing, every posterous blog uses the same global namespace. They said this will be changed. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443020

There are little quirks in the service that make it seem pretty obvious the (first) custom sub-domains and then (later) custom domains were added on later. The namespace issue seems downright silly until you remember that fact.

Now that every blog is on its own subdomain at the least, I'd imagine this could be cleaned up - hopefully with the ability for custom URLs at the same time...

Re: Posterous and URLs

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Post by RyanMcGreal »

a4agarwal wrote: post #14

1. I hope we add this soon 2. I'm going to take my chances among the HN community and say: I think this is low priority because i. Most other services don't even offer import. Posterous offers import from (soon to be) 15+ services. this is not easy ii. Posterous supports all different post/media types so that we can import from so many different services. We put our focus here iii. I care about sharing with my family…

It's great that you offer easy importing of existing blogs - but if you're going to do it, you need to do it the right way. That means supporting existing URLs. Breaking URLs every time a site changes its underlying codebase breaks the web of links.

Re: Posterous and URLs

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Post by TrevorBurnham »

a4agarwal wrote: post #14

1. I hope we add this soon 2. I'm going to take my chances among the HN community and say: I think this is low priority because i. Most other services don't even offer import. Posterous offers import from (soon to be) 15+ services. this is not easy ii. Posterous supports all different post/media types so that we can import from so many different services. We put our focus here iii. I care about sharing with my family…

Just to add my voice to the chorus: I'm tired of maintaining my personal WordPress blog and worrying about the latest security issues. Posterous now has all the features I need. But I don't want to break every link to my posts.

If you have other priorities, that's cool; just know that this is a feature that's definitely going to bring you more users.

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