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Stop being a necromancer and resurrecting a dead service. There's got to be a good reason why they killed Posterous, so let it die. Let it go; stop holding onto

Stop being a necromancer and resurrecting a dead service. There's got to be a good reason why they killed Posterous, so let it die. Let it go; stop holding onto the past.

sp332 14y ago
Twitter made the decision to kill Posterous when they bought it. It wasn't the founders' decision, or the users' decision, or the visitors' decision.
- Nux 14y ago
  I've never visited posterous.com until today, but I fail to see why Twitter would buy it and kill it.. can't be that horrific. It's like buying a house and setting it on fire. What am I missing? Are they just killing off competition?
  - ersii 14y ago
    In my opinion, this is a staff acquisition. Buy a company to get the staff free and on board, ditch the product/project. Besides, I think Posterous would be a good complement to 140 char-twitter. I don't even consider them as competition to each other..
  - sp332 14y ago
    They probably bought it for the people. So there would be no one left to work on the Posterous site if everyone is working on Twitter instead. I know they didn't buy it for the infrastructure since it's hosted on Rackspace and Twitter is an AWS shop. https://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous https://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous
    - Nux 14y ago
      But it all seems very volatile as people tend not to stay in one place for too long. Oh well ...
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jacquesm 14y ago
Please read the intro to the blog post and think again. I've seen these comments by the boatload when we took on saving geocities and you are simply wrong.
- saraid216 14y ago
  Is there a place I can find this Geocities archive? I apparently missed something I wanted to keep when I archived my own stuff, and I'm wondering if I can find it again.
  - jacquesm 14y ago
    http://reocities.com/ http://reocities.com/ lots at http://web.archive.org/ http://web.archive.org/ more at: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2720 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2720
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ersii 14y ago
This isn't resurrecting a dead service nor is it about that. This is archiving it and making the previously public data stay public. Why would someone do that? Well, a lot of people have poured their hearts out and made content that lives on Posterous. They might miss the "sunsetting" (asshole term) of the service and lose their content. Think of all the dead links that'll be around after the service have died. Wouldn't you be able to read something great that was linked from HN a year ago? From the Wayback Machine or similar? There's plenty of reasons to archive the web and the content that goes up (and down).
bjoernw 14y ago
You'd be preserving a piece of history with many interesting pieces of thought on it.

Stop being a necromancer and resurrecting a dead service. There's got to be a good reason why they killed Posterous, so let it die. Let it go; stop holding onto the past.

sp332 14y ago

Twitter made the decision to kill Posterous when they bought it. It wasn't the founders' decision, or the users' decision, or the visitors' decision.

Nux 14y ago
I've never visited posterous.com until today, but I fail to see why Twitter would buy it and kill it.. can't be that horrific. It's like buying a house and setting it on fire. What am I missing? Are they just killing off competition?
- ersii 14y ago
  In my opinion, this is a staff acquisition. Buy a company to get the staff free and on board, ditch the product/project. Besides, I think Posterous would be a good complement to 140 char-twitter. I don't even consider them as competition to each other..
- sp332 14y ago
  They probably bought it for the people. So there would be no one left to work on the Posterous site if everyone is working on Twitter instead. I know they didn't buy it for the infrastructure since it's hosted on Rackspace and Twitter is an AWS shop. https://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous https://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous
  - Nux 14y ago
    But it all seems very volatile as people tend not to stay in one place for too long. Oh well ...
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jacquesm 14y ago

Please read the intro to the blog post and think again. I've seen these comments by the boatload when we took on saving geocities and you are simply wrong.

saraid216 14y ago
Is there a place I can find this Geocities archive? I apparently missed something I wanted to keep when I archived my own stuff, and I'm wondering if I can find it again.
- jacquesm 14y ago
  http://reocities.com/ http://reocities.com/ lots at http://web.archive.org/ http://web.archive.org/ more at: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2720 http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2720
- deleted 14y ago
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ersii 14y ago

This isn't resurrecting a dead service nor is it about that. This is archiving it and making the previously public data stay public. Why would someone do that? Well, a lot of people have poured their hearts out and made content that lives on Posterous. They might miss the "sunsetting" (asshole term) of the service and lose their content. Think of all the dead links that'll be around after the service have died. Wouldn't you be able to read something great that was linked from HN a year ago? From the Wayback Machine or similar? There's plenty of reasons to archive the web and the content that goes up (and down).

bjoernw 14y ago

You'd be preserving a piece of history with many interesting pieces of thought on it.