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As a product I was always impressed by the just email, no setup approach. With the current trend towards people posting one-off or irregular essays instead of full-featured blogs, it seems as if they veered away from the simple email posting route too soon. What was once an interesting approach to blogging was pivoted into a samey metaservice with nothing notable for me.
I'm sorry to see them go.
Obligatory link to "Posterous launches new tools to switch from dying platforms: A new importer per day for the next 15 days" http://blog.posterous.com/make-the-switch-to-posterous
Right! And when I wrote up that newsstand the time and noted that Posterous made it really hard to get your data out, as I recall I got a REALLY bitchy email from one of the founders.
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…
Any solid alternatives HN could recommend?
Posthaven. If you liked Posterous, I promise you will like Posthaven. I was one of the cofounders of Posterous and wrote much of the site. Brett joined us as a cofounder and we really enjoyed working on it. The difference this time is that we'll be 100% sustainable, and we are pledging to keep the site online forever. It's just me and Brett coding it right now. http://posthaven.com
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Write your own blogging engine and self hosting? That's what I do.
Why build your own blogging engine when so many open source solutions already exist?
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Write your own blogging engine and self hosting? That's what I do.
Why build your own blogging engine when so many open source solutions already exist?
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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.
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=wordpress
I really dislike that startups are acquired so often just so they are discontinued by larger companies. It feels very disingenuous. As if the only point is to be acquired and get a sizable amount of money.
It seems it is the only point in many cases. As an example, consider the vast amount of superfluous twitter-helper apps that were endlessly sprouting up a couple of years ago. I don't think many of them were seriously intending on starting a legitimate business out of a web application that helps twitter users keep track of the followers that didn't follow them back.
But I think a part of me would hate to see my blood, sweat and tears poured down the drain by a large company intent on remaining where they are (not that Twitter did exactly this but you get my meaning).