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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. Who? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nevere heard of them.
    Guess nothing of value will be lost.

  2. Did you *read* TFA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The article gives specific instructions how to save all your blog content. In some cases, move it to another host. But you must do it before they shutdown. So the problem is ...??

    1. Re:Did you *read* TFA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      > we moved away from simple and good looking HTML sites

      <body background=blink.gif><br><br><br><br><img src=under_construction.gif><br><marquee><font color=red><blink><i>TOTALLY</i> agree</blink>. It was <b>much</b> better in GeoCities' times</font></marquee><br><img src=under_construction.gif><br><embed src=rickroll.mid autostart=true autoplay=true hidden=true/></body>

  3. 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.

  4. 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/

  5. Re:Friendica by mcgrew · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No, own your own WEBSITE. That's the only way to be sure. The downside isn't cost, you can get hosting for $15 per year. The downside is nobody will read it -- but they don't anyway.

    Me, I just use slashdot. It's good enough for my purposes.

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