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"Posterous is the most innovative blogging platform available today." No offense to Posterous staff, but I think they have a lot of work to do before it can re

"Posterous is the most innovative blogging platform available today." No offense to Posterous staff, but I think they have a lot of work to do before it can really claim that title. I think WordPress currently holds that title.

rantfoil 18y ago
None taken -- we know there's a road ahead, but we're psyched and ready to take on the challenge.
- unalone 18y ago
  By the way, I think that the unwavering optimism of you guys is incredibly inspiring. Every time I've talked with you (I emailed a few criticisms a while back), I get nothing but incredible enthusiasm. I think I started out with a pretty negative reaction towards Posterous, because I'm a Tumblr addict, but now I'm rooting for you guys 100%. Keep it up!
fallentimes 18y ago
Very true, but they've only been at it for 3 months and have come a long way since their launch. I'm not going to lie, when they first launched I didn't understand what really differentiated them from everyone else. What ended up selling me on posterous is the fact that my Mom has a posterous. To say she's not a computer person is an understatement. My Mom is the person that very recently used to go to yahoo.com, type google, click on the google.com search result and then search for X. At first I thought it was because I emailed it to her and she was just trying to appease me. But then I went through my emails of other stuff I sent her: Firefox, Ad-aware, Delicious, Google Toolbar, etc. Each of these was sent to her after she complained to me about a problem (IE is crashing, computer is slow [spyware/adware], accessing bookmarks on other computers, easy access to Google [surprise!]). Despite this, she has to yet to adapt and use any of the above applications (ignoring her son's helpful advice :-D). However, when she wanted a way to easily post pictures and I suggested posterous, she started using it. I'm not going to pretend I know why, but something clicked.

rantfoil 18y ago

None taken -- we know there's a road ahead, but we're psyched and ready to take on the challenge.

unalone 18y ago
By the way, I think that the unwavering optimism of you guys is incredibly inspiring. Every time I've talked with you (I emailed a few criticisms a while back), I get nothing but incredible enthusiasm. I think I started out with a pretty negative reaction towards Posterous, because I'm a Tumblr addict, but now I'm rooting for you guys 100%. Keep it up!

fallentimes 18y ago

Very true, but they've only been at it for 3 months and have come a long way since their launch. I'm not going to lie, when they first launched I didn't understand what really differentiated them from everyone else. What ended up selling me on posterous is the fact that my Mom has a posterous. To say she's not a computer person is an understatement. My Mom is the person that very recently used to go to yahoo.com, type google, click on the google.com search result and then search for X. At first I thought it was because I emailed it to her and she was just trying to appease me. But then I went through my emails of other stuff I sent her: Firefox, Ad-aware, Delicious, Google Toolbar, etc. Each of these was sent to her after she complained to me about a problem (IE is crashing, computer is slow [spyware/adware], accessing bookmarks on other computers, easy access to Google [surprise!]). Despite this, she has to yet to adapt and use any of the above applications (ignoring her son's helpful advice :-D). However, when she wanted a way to easily post pictures and I suggested posterous, she started using it. I'm not going to pretend I know why, but something clicked.