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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

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 for Twitter if you take out Posterous' talent) As it stands now, Tumblr clearly won (Although there has been a few emerging startups of insignificant size. Soup.io is one that springs to mind that is currently in an accelerator). If you are looking for hosted solutions for your startup's blog (or you are at all technical), I'd genuinely think about using GitHub. Start to pull your posts from Posterous and use a static content generator. Jekyll / Punch / Middleman / Hyde / Korma / nanonc / Frank + (any of the other 10 static generators).. The operative point from using services that generate static content is that you are always in control of your plain-text content. Just push your new post and GitHub will handle your site. If you are worried about traffic on your site or extended build periods (I believe GH does rate limit static sites, and as a comment below mentions, on infrequent occasions builds can take upwards of several hours) then you can still use any other solution... Push to Amazon S3 and proxy through Cloudfront, then you will have probably one of the fastest, geographically distributed blogs on the internet. This was always happening... Especially when you consider that for the last 12 months I haven't seen a single new feature since they were acquired. I've logged in, see the same "Posterous has been acquired" header for the last 12 months. Move on, and safeguard your future content.

pnathan 14y ago
Yeah, I figured this would happen... but I had hoped that it wouldn't ( I have a couple posterous sites). Ah well. Guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.
bitcartel 14y ago
Wordpress is for bloggers, Github is for developers. Why not keep things simple?
- minimaxir 14y ago
  What about developers who are also bloggers?
  - jgh 14y ago
    gitpress
  - greghinch 14y ago
    http://jekyllbootstrap.com http://jekyllbootstrap.com
  - fosk 14y ago
    Gist
  - ecspike 14y ago
    Self-host.
  - spc476 14y ago
    Write your own blogging engine and self hosting? That's what I do.
    - booruguru 14y ago
      Why build your own blogging engine when so many open source solutions already exist?
      - mappu 14y ago
        Blogging engines are a simple enough concept that it might well be faster to write your own than to understand, configure and patch an unfamiliar system.
      - spc476 14y ago
        I originally wrote mine in 1999-2000, when there were very few options (if any). It works, so why not keep using it?
MatthewPhillips 14y ago
I'd be careful of using GitHub if you have things like important announcements, have had problems in the past of builds taking hours.
larrys 14y ago
Tumblr and twitter both USV companies. Surprised they didn't just segue users to tumblr.
- filmgirlcw 14y ago
  Posterous's output used to be just terrible to try to get into anything else. WordPress had to build its own importer or whatever. I'd also assume that Twitter doesn't really care about what users or an abandoned blogging platform do now. I'm not saying that that's right, but it is what it is.
dreamfactory 14y ago
Real time publishing is essential if you have a competitive SEO requirement. Google has got good enough that seconds count for web publishing operations. Static page-based content management is also anathema to a content services approach, which is needed for multi-channel, reuse, and dynamic page generation (and is the emerging requirement in content management systems).
- wmf 14y ago
  In other words, you're a spammer.
  - deleted 14y ago
    [deleted]
  - dreamfactory 14y ago
    In other words you're a troll or you don't know how web publishing works :p I'm talking about major news and media organisations. Immediacy has always been a key differentiator in news and financial data for example (look at trading co's who pay a fortune for systems that will shave milliseconds off getting figures from exchanges). A publishing system that isn't at least near real-time isn't a fit for very many use cases (most commercial publishing, anything with UGC etc).
    - jamesgeck0 14y ago
      It's safe to say that the vast majority of Posterous users don't care about anything you just mentioned. Static HTML blogs are just fine for them.
      - dreamfactory 14y ago
        Until they need commenting. I would think hosted wordpress is the more natural fit for most posterous users than github.
    - BiosElement 14y ago

pnathan 14y ago

Yeah, I figured this would happen... but I had hoped that it wouldn't ( I have a couple posterous sites). Ah well. Guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.

bitcartel 14y ago

Wordpress is for bloggers, Github is for developers. Why not keep things simple?

minimaxir 14y ago
What about developers who are also bloggers?
- jgh 14y ago
  gitpress
- greghinch 14y ago
  http://jekyllbootstrap.com http://jekyllbootstrap.com
- fosk 14y ago
  Gist
- ecspike 14y ago
  Self-host.
- spc476 14y ago
  Write your own blogging engine and self hosting? That's what I do.
  - booruguru 14y ago
    Why build your own blogging engine when so many open source solutions already exist?
    - mappu 14y ago
      Blogging engines are a simple enough concept that it might well be faster to write your own than to understand, configure and patch an unfamiliar system.
    - spc476 14y ago
      I originally wrote mine in 1999-2000, when there were very few options (if any). It works, so why not keep using it?

MatthewPhillips 14y ago

I'd be careful of using GitHub if you have things like important announcements, have had problems in the past of builds taking hours.

larrys 14y ago

Tumblr and twitter both USV companies. Surprised they didn't just segue users to tumblr.

filmgirlcw 14y ago
Posterous's output used to be just terrible to try to get into anything else. WordPress had to build its own importer or whatever. I'd also assume that Twitter doesn't really care about what users or an abandoned blogging platform do now. I'm not saying that that's right, but it is what it is.

dreamfactory 14y ago

Real time publishing is essential if you have a competitive SEO requirement. Google has got good enough that seconds count for web publishing operations. Static page-based content management is also anathema to a content services approach, which is needed for multi-channel, reuse, and dynamic page generation (and is the emerging requirement in content management systems).

wmf 14y ago
In other words, you're a spammer.
- deleted 14y ago
  [deleted]
- dreamfactory 14y ago
  In other words you're a troll or you don't know how web publishing works :p I'm talking about major news and media organisations. Immediacy has always been a key differentiator in news and financial data for example (look at trading co's who pay a fortune for systems that will shave milliseconds off getting figures from exchanges). A publishing system that isn't at least near real-time isn't a fit for very many use cases (most commercial publishing, anything with UGC etc).
  - jamesgeck0 14y ago
    It's safe to say that the vast majority of Posterous users don't care about anything you just mentioned. Static HTML blogs are just fine for them.
    - dreamfactory 14y ago
      Until they need commenting. I would think hosted wordpress is the more natural fit for most posterous users than github.
  - BiosElement 14y ago