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"Why I'm Dropping Posterous This Weekend"

25 points by _pius 16y ago

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DavidPP 16y ago
Didn't notice that. Good to know, I was thinking about using Posterous as a super super easy way for some of clients to populate their blogs. That would have been a big mistake on my side!
jwb119 16y ago
as the posterous spokesperson alludes to in the comments, he is probably better off elsewhere. i totally get the gripe, and i do sympathize, but it's a free service and at the end of the day it's not something that shows up on the radar screen for a large majority of their users..
oldstrangers 16y ago
I'm surprised its not because of that ridiculous floating toolbar.
- mcastner 16y ago
  Yup, that's why I picked Tumblr over Posterous. The toolbar is just ugly, I'd be fine if I could make it that 2D tag they used to have, but I couldn't get it to work. Tumblr is definitely less stable, but my blog isn't that important anyways.
jorkos 16y ago
Anyone have thoughts on Tumblr versus Posterous? Any recommendations?
- vjk2005 16y ago
  Moved back to Tumblr after 6 months with Posterous » http://vijei.tumblr.com/amp http://vijei.tumblr.com/amp Tumblr lets me use script tags at will, and that opens up a whole world of customization possibilities that I didn't have on Posterous. There's only so much you can do with iframes before running into cross-domain roadblocks.
- patrickryan 16y ago
  I just moved back to Tumblr after using Posterous for 6 months or so. I finally got tired of the slow page loads and buggy editor I experienced using Posterous.
  - warrenwilkinson 16y ago
    Posterous crashes my browser (Opera 10.63, on Gentoo Linux) about 40% of the time it loads. If Opera wasn't so good at saving my tabs I'd probably have stopped using Posterous.
drivebyacct2 16y ago
You're using a hosted blogging service. And you're surprised that they want to drive traffic to the version of the content that they're hosting? I agree with their comments: You're better off somewhere else.
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- Semiapies 16y ago
  The response was dismissive because his whine deserved to be dismissed.
a4agarwal 16y ago
Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. Most of our users do want the canonical url to be the posterous version. However, this isn't true for all our users, especially those who are using us to autopost to other sites. We'll make this a theme element so that it can be removed if desired. Thanks Sachin CEO, Posterous

25 points by _pius 16y ago

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Didn't notice that. Good to know, I was thinking about using Posterous as a super super easy way for some of clients to populate their blogs. That would have been a big mistake on my side!

jwb119 16y ago

as the posterous spokesperson alludes to in the comments, he is probably better off elsewhere. i totally get the gripe, and i do sympathize, but it's a free service and at the end of the day it's not something that shows up on the radar screen for a large majority of their users..

oldstrangers 16y ago

I'm surprised its not because of that ridiculous floating toolbar.

mcastner 16y ago
Yup, that's why I picked Tumblr over Posterous. The toolbar is just ugly, I'd be fine if I could make it that 2D tag they used to have, but I couldn't get it to work. Tumblr is definitely less stable, but my blog isn't that important anyways.

jorkos 16y ago

Anyone have thoughts on Tumblr versus Posterous? Any recommendations?

vjk2005 16y ago
Moved back to Tumblr after 6 months with Posterous » http://vijei.tumblr.com/amp http://vijei.tumblr.com/amp Tumblr lets me use script tags at will, and that opens up a whole world of customization possibilities that I didn't have on Posterous. There's only so much you can do with iframes before running into cross-domain roadblocks.
patrickryan 16y ago
I just moved back to Tumblr after using Posterous for 6 months or so. I finally got tired of the slow page loads and buggy editor I experienced using Posterous.
- warrenwilkinson 16y ago
  Posterous crashes my browser (Opera 10.63, on Gentoo Linux) about 40% of the time it loads. If Opera wasn't so good at saving my tabs I'd probably have stopped using Posterous.

drivebyacct2 16y ago

You're using a hosted blogging service. And you're surprised that they want to drive traffic to the version of the content that they're hosting? I agree with their comments: You're better off somewhere else.

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Semiapies 16y ago
The response was dismissive because his whine deserved to be dismissed.

a4agarwal 16y ago

Hey guys, thanks for the feedback. Most of our users do want the canonical url to be the posterous version. However, this isn't true for all our users, especially those who are using us to autopost to other sites. We'll make this a theme element so that it can be removed if desired. Thanks Sachin CEO, Posterous