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I really don't know how to feel about Posterous at this point. When I signed up in the early days, it was awesome. They were the simple and concise, yet ridicu
by rufo 15y ago
I really don't know how to feel about Posterous at this point.
When I signed up in the early days, it was awesome. They were the simple and concise, yet ridiculously powerful alternative to tumblr - email post@posterous.com, get a blog. I loved showing it to people because it was so amazingly simple.
I understand that wasn't quite enough to draw users in and they needed to evolve the product, but especially with this latest revision, my initial reaction was that I have no idea what Posterous is anymore. The messaging on the home page is terrible - "What's a space? A place for whatever!", and nowhere is the product itself shown.
As an existing user, my first reaction was to check my existing Posterous sites to make sure they were still blogs, and not Google+/Facebook-style Pages. And as a new user, I don't think I'd understand why I'd want Posterous in addition to Google+ or Facebook. (I understand that Posterous is better about privacy, but the competitors all claim that too, and Facebook never gave a shit about privacy - why would a new user believe Posterous?)
Again, I get they need to change their core product (or at least how it's positioned). I'm just really not sure a psuedo-social-network is the right way to go about it.
Even more than that, I miss the simplicity of "E-mail us anything. We'll post it for you."
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- u48998 15y agoThe ultimate lesson has always been that we can never put all of our eggs in one basket. But lately, the lesson has evolved to suggest that even if you put some of the eggs in a basket, you are actually gambling.in this time of social-Internet. I don't mind gambling my time and efforts with new and/or struggling products, but the risk is when you gamble your friends, connections and audience. It just becomes ugly when the platform plays around and literally pulls the rug under your feet. But anyway, that's a reality of changing social-Internet landscape.
- Elepsis 15y agoIt's interesting because I had the exact same initial reaction: uh-oh, did they change anything about my blog or group? Personally, I almost never interact with posterous through the dashboard, but this move makes it seem that I'm either very much in the minority of their user base, or that they're no longer interested in serving my use case. Possibly both. The net result is that where I would likely have used them without hesitation for another project I was planning on before these changes, now I feel like I need to look around and explore alternatives (including possibly reverting to a self-hosted WordPress blog).
- radicaldreamer 15y agoHmm, nothing has changed with sites and groups, this is a new way to display and interact with them. They all have their own standalone sites just as they always did and are just as customizable as before. The main difference is that interacting with content across multiple sites is much more streamlined through the new interface.
- jgilliam 15y agoExcept they aren't called sites and groups any more. You're really underestimating how important labeling is. EDIT: Lots of people want sites, lots of people want private groups, but no one wants a space simply because they don't know what that is.
- a4agarwal 15y agoThanks for the comment. Nothing has changed with how you can use Posterous for Sites or Groups. It's simpler, cleaner, better designed, more user focused, better mobile app, and a strong social layer. We found our users loved having more control over how they share online. So instead of having 2 products, we simplified into one to rule them all.