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Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by olefoo »

heinel wrote: post #53
pavs wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can only speak for myself. I personally user tumblr (only started few months ago) for private ramblings about random stuff that comes in my mind. My tumblr is blocked from search engine and I have not shared the link with anyone. I also blocked out comments and whatever other social media features there might be. I would have made it password protected if they allowed private tumblers to have access to API (you can…

Of course Posterous is just another blogging platform. Have they tried to be anything else? The way you described how you use tumblr does seem to suggest that Posterous is actually a better fit, but it appears that you just found tumblr first and didn't bother to switch. The Posterous switch campaign awhile back was targeted at users like you. That's how they were trying to set themselves apart. It might not have wor…

> A condom is a condom is a condom.

This ignores quality, convenience, and the user experience. Not all condoms are the same, and how they are deployed by the user makes all the difference in the world.

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by andreyf »

listic wrote: post #20
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!

Thought this too, until I moved in with two professional (that is, paid) bloggers in NYC. Apparently, there's quite an ecosystem of tumblr "publishers" who care deeply about their tumblr follower numbers, etc.

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by andreyf »

scorpion032 wrote: post #28
ziadbc wrote: post #5

These two services have similarities, but someone could just have well written an article that says "Wordpress leaves Tumblr and Posterous in the dust." I like the idea of a YC company taking on an existing one head on once in awhile, rather than looking for an overtly specific niche. Posterous still has a ton of users, and I think at one point and time the digg vs reddit chart looked pretty similar. Look at it today…

Digg let down themselves. I doubt Tumblr is going to do. If nothing else, they have a decent design taste. That alone is enough to survive and multiply.

They do have good design taste, but their technical side is missing quite a bit. Just earlier today, I couldn't figure out how to submit an image by URL (since they automatically resized my original): kept getting some kind of "invalid file" error (I'm not uploading a file!). Scheduled-publication was also broken the 1 time I tried it. Very frustrating.

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by maxklein »

mattmaroon wrote: post #55
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…

What "social stuff" do you find missing out of curiosity?

I want a proper count of how my story is spreading in social networks (or graphs). I would like facebook + twitter commenting. I would like it to spread among smaller or alternative social networks. I'd like it to be possible for people to be notified even if they are not in the posterous network. I'd like integration with other commenting systems. I'd like "likes" or something equivalent. I'd like posterous "retweets" or such within the posterous network.

I don't mean social as in posterous creating their own social network, that would be silly. I just want tighter and deeper integration with social collections, such that what I write can spread wider and be more appreciated.

Being able to embed and image in a post is not a feature I really appreciate much, since I know html and thus can solve it very quickly. But integrating deeply with other social networks is not something I'm familiar with, and having such features would be great for me.

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by maxklein »

rantfoil wrote: post #44
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…

We're definitely working on it. =) But this feedback is super helpful. Thanks Max.

See reply below to Matt for more details of what I meant.

Re: Tumblr Leaves Posterous in the Dust

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Post by mattmaroon »

maxklein wrote: post #64
mattmaroon wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What "social stuff" do you find missing out of curiosity?

I want a proper count of how my story is spreading in social networks (or graphs). I would like facebook + twitter commenting. I would like it to spread among smaller or alternative social networks. I'd like it to be possible for people to be notified even if they are not in the posterous network. I'd like integration with other commenting systems. I'd like "likes" or something equivalent. I'd like posterous "retweet…

Interesting. Seems like those would help spread posterous too.
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