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Posterous Migration Guide: All known importers compared
- jroes 14y agoSome folks are also working on a jekyll import here: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-import/pull/12 https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-import/pull/12
- garry 14y agoThanks for this -- I'll check it out when I get a chance later tonight.
- nitrogen 14y agoI guess I should upload my script that does this with Octopress, and would probably work with Jekyll... Done: https://gist.github.com/nitrogenlogic/5200766 https://gist.github.com/nitrogenlogic/5200766
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- mbs348 14y agonice to see garry taking care of his users. <3
- garry 14y agoI only tried all the ones I knew about. If there are others, let me know.
- rdl 14y agoIt's pretty awesome of Garry to think of his users and present all the alternatives, rather than just thinking of his own interests in promoting just Posthaven. Ironically this makes Posthaven and even better option.
- niggler 14y ago"present all the alternatives" Invariably those comparisons will be framed in a way that makes the product (in this case Posthaven) look good.
- garry 14y agoThis is about facts. Either things work or they don't. If I'm wrong, let me know. garry@posthaven.com
- Terretta 14y agoFacts: I imported a dozen blogs with a couple thousand entries and all manner of media embeds. Only took a few clicks and 20 mins; everything worked. I've also emailed with questions about plans, and received prompt personal and fully informative replies. I had tried WP, Tumblr, and had started to fool with Jekyll when my posthaven invite came through. If you have better things to do with your time than fiddle with blog hosting, this migration is the way to go. // Tip: Don't pre configure any blogs, just run the import which sets them up for you.
- rdl 14y agoI think garry's interest is actually helping his users more than promoting Posthaven, though. The most selfish reason for helping users is probably to avoid the reputation loss of posterous disappearing without an alternative, more than Posthaven needing to be a big commercial success. But yes, vendor-provided comparisons are usually selective in what they compare :) In this case I meant that he was presenting alternatives at all, not that the comparison was impartial (which it seems to be). I don't think Posthaven is really a normal commercial enterprise.
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- Samuel_Michon 14y agoSadly, a lot of the Posterous content will go down with the site on April 30th. Please consider helping out ArchiveTeam to save it. It takes very little bandwidth to make a difference. http://jacquesmattheij.com/come-help-save-posterous-from-oblivion http://jacquesmattheij.com/come-help-save-posterous-from-obl...
- NoahTheDuke 14y agoIs there a way to know how much is left?
- Samuel_Michon 14y agoSo far, out of 9.8 million sites, 1.85 million have been archived. More info: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Posterous http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Posterous
- DoubleMalt 14y agoI wonder if it would be possible to use digital ocean as an ip pool. Create droplet, start warrior, if your banned kill droplet and create new one. thinking about writing a sunzi script.
- Cameron_D 14y agoThat is possible (we had several people using Amazon instances to do it), however the main tracker that usernames get pulled from only hands out users at a limited rate (to prevent us taking down the entire site again)
- blahbap 14y agoA warning about the Posterous backup to Wordpress import option - it does not support Unicode. In my Norwegian posts, all foreign characters were exported as "??" in the XML. If Posthaven handles Unicode they'll definetely get my money.
- r0s 14y agoI'd really like a Drupal migration path.
- joelrunyon 14y agoOne question Garry, what are the export options from posthaven? (in case we switch and then something terrible happens to posthaven).
- garry 14y agoWe'll write exporters the way Posterous did. Ideally we would work out some way where exporters wouldn't be necessary, e.g. the data appears in some perfect for elsewhere, intact, with the same URL.
- joelrunyon 14y agoWell then. I'm sold. Thanks Garry.
- joelrunyon 14y agoJust signed up - when is the service actually going live?
- joelrunyon 14y agoOne more question: when is the post by email function going to be live?
- webology 14y agoI think Garry is being pretty genuine here. I suspect some of the snark on this post stems from Posterous's overly aggressive marketing campaign from a few years back which started off here: http://blog.posterous.com/make-the-switch-to-posterous http://blog.posterous.com/make-the-switch-to-posterous
- spacemanaki 14y agoWill Posthaven's importer retain the source of Markdown-based posts? The little bit of blogging I did using Posterous was almost all in Markdown, and when I found out that it wasn't possible to pull the original Markdown using the Posterous API I was pretty bummed out. (although in the end Pandoc did a mostly complete job converting it back) Maybe Posthaven has more access than Joe the API user? The source Markdown exists somewhere in their DB since you can go back and edit it on the site, but I couldn't find any way to get at it via the API. Frankly, if it doesn't retain it (understandable, given Posterous's API) I wouldn't call it 100% lossless. This is one of the bigger reasons I'd be pretty wary of managed blogs again, although I guess I'm probably not the target audience for them since among the alternatives I'm thinking about is a few Emacs Lisp functions calling Org mode, which I admit is a little fringe.
- jwmoz 14y agoThis is one of those things I know I need to do, but can't help thinking, 'oh ffs'.
- SkyMarshal 14y agoI took this opportunity to download my Posterous posts, cull the signal, create an Octopress blog, and repost the non-culled posts there. Was a PITA, took most of a weekend, but left me with a blog more under my control and composed of standardized markup. Don't think I'll be going the blog-as-a-service route again anytime soon. My thanks and gratitude to @imathis, @mojombo, & co. for Octopress, along with everyone else making similar static site/blog generators.
- SkyMarshal 14y agoer, cull the noise.
- benatkin 14y ago> Posthaven is the only place you can save your data safely. This is false. You can also take the archive you downloaded from Posterous and save it to DropBox, and it will be on both DropBox and your computer's DropBox folder.
- geekinthecorner 14y agoAny idea when posthaven will actually launch? I signed up a while ago, and am a bit concerned that it won't go live before Twitter screws me.
- hamoid 14y agoI created a Python migration tool for Wintersmith (nodejs based static blogging): https://github.com/hamoid/Posterous-to-Wintersmith https://github.com/hamoid/Posterous-to-Wintersmith Maybe the code can serve as an example for other migrations.