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Just wondering, why are you leaving Posterous, and to what do you want to switch?

• steveklabnik 16y ago
  Overall, I like Posterous. It's easy to post stuff, most of the default skins look nice... But at the same time, I'm a programmer. I love to tinker. I'd much rather have something that runs on my own server, and lets me do whatever. There's a few widgets and things I'd like to add, or at least experiment with. I can't do that with Posterous. Additionally, the whole affiliate link thing left a bad taste in my mouth. If I already hadn't been considering switching, it probably wouldn't have been enough, but it moved my thinking from "maybe I'll switch someday" to "I'm going to switch someday." One of the reasons I haven't switched yet is that I don't feel there's a clear winner in the blogging space. I like Tumblr's look and feel, but that doesn't solve my portability or customizability concerns. I'm trying to fight the urge to start typing 'rails g post title:string body:text' because I really don't have the time to do all of that... I've been thinking about trying Wordpress 3, but with it's security history, I'm a little shaky. I used to use Jekyll, and enjoyed it, so that might also be where I go.