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Posterous releases blog themes
- pclark 17y agoFinally. Seriously, I've been waiting literally months for this. So long I switched to tumblr in the end, sadly...
- simanyay 17y agoI wish they had JavaScript support in themes.
- thorax 17y agoSo, umm, why isn't this a pay feature? I would have paid. Added: In fact, I do pay monthly for squarespace which you've now got enough theme parity with (at least through the advanced editor) that a geek like me would pay happily.
- jcapote 17y agoI would have paid as well.
- fallentimes 17y agoYou're the minority.
- teej 17y agoThis would have been a great opportunity for Posterous to gather data to test their hypothesis. It's obvious that there are passionate people on both ends of the spectrum. Would people actually -pay- for themes? Why not show some users a link to a "Premium Themes" option and see how far down the funnel they go? If the numbers work out, launch themes as a pay option. It's always easier to go from paid -> free than the other way around.
- thorax 17y agoYou are correct, of course. It's a good thing that it doesn't require a majority to make money!
- tsally 17y agoMaybe for the prebuilt themes, but paying for custom CSS is pretty standard.
- dcurtis 17y agoIf they did that, they'd be sacrificing growth for a small amount of revenue. Apparently they highly value growth at this stage.
- judofyr 17y agoJavascript is not enabled on Posterous pages for security reasons. We'll be introducing ways you can add your own javascript widgets soon. I wonder how good their protection is…
- axod 17y agoI can't find it at the moment, but there's a very cool javascript sandbox system at Google Code somewhere. I believe it creates an iframe with a separate domain, writes the js into it, and communicates via message passing/anchor etc. The net result is that you can execute unsafe js, in a sandbox on your page and expose an API to it.
- defen 17y agoAre you thinking of caja? http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/
- aristus 17y agohttp://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ http://code.google.com/p/google-caja/ It's not an iframe, it's a capability-based filter which provides more security than an iframe can. A lot of sites use it now that it's reasonably fast...
- vibhavs 17y agoWhile I understand _why_ they had to introduce theming, I'm worried about the simplicity that I have come to love in Posterous. I just hope Posterous blogs don't become the next MySpace pages.
- JustRick 17y agoInterestingly, it seems that if you remove the Posterous branding box from the theme template, it still gets added back in during page rendering.
- JulianMorrison 17y agoI'll stick with the minimalist default.
- felideon 17y agoI was wondering how dcurtis was doing it. This is great news. Just in time for me to start a blog.
- TrevorJ 17y agoCould you expand on that comment somewhat? Does http://dustincurtis.com http://dustincurtis.com make use of posterious somehow?
- unalone 17y agohttp://blog.dustincurtis.com/ http://blog.dustincurtis.com/
- judofyr 17y agohttp://blog.dustincurtis.com/ http://blog.dustincurtis.com/ uses Posterous.
- TrevorJ 17y agoAh, thank you. I would love to know how he approaches creating his other website and how he creates his graphics. I love is style.
- iamwil 17y agoNo. The non-posterous part of the site, he just edits up straight up html, and throws it on apache.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoMicroblogs have a very interesting hype cycle: first they drop all the features that normal blogs have accumulated over the last ten years. Then, one at a time, and to great fanfare, they add them back.
- shafqat 17y agoThank you. I dont understand why this is a big feature that needs press. Its just themes?!
- snprbob86 17y agoThis is the feature that I, for one, was waiting for. Considering how great the rest of Posterous is, I expect I am not the only one.
- rantfoil 17y agoWe've never claimed to be a microblog. This has been on the roadmap from the beginning. It's very simple: we listen to users and implement features to delight them and make the service more valuable for them.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoI am definitely glad to see the feature added -- I just think the amount of attention it gets is a little excessive.
- zeynel1 17y agoI think they should give the chance to choose a name for the url instead of just using the email.
- ajdecon 17y agoYou can do that: post@whatever.posterous.com
- zeynel1 17y agoThanks. I wanted to create a blog with name "1-world" but I got an email saying that "We were unable to post your email: create a blog to site: 1-world.posterous.com because this site does not exist."
- zeynel1 17y agoI see that they let you choose the custom url after you create the blog.
- saurabh 17y agoI can now use my posterous blog as OpenID
- kineticac 17y agoThe huge response Posterous gets from their fans for every micro feature they release is because they already have a fan base. The more community or users you have who depend on your service, the more they want a feature. If you start off with an empty blog platform with every feature wordpress has, nobody really cares. OR, if you start off with one really distinguishing feature (Post by Email) and you instantly gain a huge user base who like that, they wait in anticipation for all the small features you can find elsewhere. Posterous has an awesome foundation to build off of, and because of that they have a real advantage. They can get feedback from a lot of users, including requests for features. What to build? That is easily solved just by listening to what people have to say. They can validate features to build, and are justified in their time by the constant requests for these features. As soon as they release a feature, they know it's going to be big since the community has been asking. And when it's there, the community feels that they were just given what they've been wanting. Nobody blames them for not having it in the first place, knowing this is a growing app, and are glad to be early adopters. These guys (garry and sachin) are in a great position, and it's nearly impossible for them to NOT build a great product with all the feedback they are getting.