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We want to make sure our users can move to other sites easily. If you have suggestions for our exporter, please let me know The XML file in our export can be u
by a4agarwal 14y ago
We want to make sure our users can move to other sites easily. If you have suggestions for our exporter, please let me know
The XML file in our export can be uploaded to Wordpress.
- n9com 14y agoThis is going to ravage blog links on search engines. Not sure why this wasn't announced a year back (although it was widely known this would happen eventually).
- jacquesm 14y agoWhat are the rough operating costs of posterous? If you want we could discuss keeping it alive rather than shutting it down (like what I've been doing with http://www.Reocities.com/ http://www.Reocities.com/). I don't like large gaping holes in the web.
- nikcub 14y agoInstead of setting up a longer living backup for each case, it would be interesting to setup a generic storage mirror and a corporate foundation that can keep these sites alive. When a startup shuts down a product, they can donate the domain name or point it to the mirror to keep it alive. Something like archive.org, with some donated servers and a couple of people working on it. Twitter and other acquirers usually only want the team, and this is happening more and more. We are losing large parts of the web. I wouldn't be surprised if less than 1% of Posterous is exported and goes to live on in other forms. Either way the URLs and links all die.
- jacquesm 14y agoI've been keeping reocities alive out of pocket. It costs a few hundred every month in hosting costs and another few hundred in machine write-offs. I got about .37 in bitcoin donations, so I'm a bit short still :) But I think it is well worth doing. I assume hosing posterous would cost a lot more than that so I'd have to find some funding but I'm pretty sure this could be done.
- nikcub 14y agoI'd be more than happy to help out if Twitter are willing to do it with Posterous. Register a non-profit and then go out and approach some of the larger co's for funds and/or resources to keep it running forever. Make static backups of these sites using their sitemaps[0] and then ask them to donate or point their domains [0] https://posterous.com/sitemap.xml https://posterous.com/sitemap.xml (warning: 1.5MB)
- jacquesm 14y agoHm, that sitemap seems to be limited to 10K entries and it isn't clear how it links to the next level sitemap. I'll get to work on this.
- bhc3 14y agoSachin - are you aware of any transfer tools to Posterous's most obvious peer, Tumblr?
- sbierwagen 14y agoTumblr is not profitable, has a very high burn rate, and has been losing employees. Speaking as a Tumblr user, I really wouldn't move to Tumblr.