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Blogging Platform Posterous To Shut Down April 30

Posted by timothy on from the cloud-rains-on-your-parade dept.

New submitter Mike Allton writes with the announcement from Posterous that the blogging platform will close at the end of April, after being acquired last year by Twitter. "It's been suggested that people should use platforms like Posterous or Google+ for their blog, and I think this is a perfect example of why that's a bad idea. When you use someone else's platform, you don't own your content and you don't have control over the platform. Do you have a Posterous account? What will you do with all your posts and content?"

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  1. A warning to people exporting to WordPress by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Informative

    The WordPress import uses an XML file for import of text, tags, etc. but reads the images from Posterous while parsing the xml. This means that people who delete their blogs before import, or presumably who wait until after the end of April so not get their images imported, The images are in the backup .zip file but if you wait too long you could have to re-add them all manually.

  2. wget it and forget it. err.. rehost it somewhere. by atomize · · Score: 5, Informative

    wget -r -l inf -k -E -p -nc http://www.yourposterousblog.com/