Ok, it is official. Posterous will no longer be working starting in April [date]. What you must do:
If you have a lot of content that you want to preserve, then use the EXPORT button and follow the procedure given. All this does is take all your content off the site and give you a back up of it. I believe it's all the files-including photos, video and audio. After this, you have a few choices: 1. Transfer your exported files to: Wordpress or Squarespace. Both of these are blogging platforms. Wordpress is free but limited (wordpress.com). I have used wordpress before and all the frustrations of wacky interfaces-it's dated back-end management UI are a part of what you get. This is acceptable because it is a free service. You get what you pay for and folks should not complain. Most importantly, they have a 'posterous importer' though I have not tried it yet. Squarespace is a paid, but more capable service (squarespace.com). I have also used Squarespace for consulting services I have done and it is generally a more user-friendly, but at the same time quite powerful service. They also have a 'posterous importer'. The fees currently of this post are about double that of POSTHAVEN (to be explained below) and that means you are making a significant change financially from free. Squarespace, can also host your web domain and there are streamlining benefits to that. Their customer service is also excellent in my experience. 2. Reserve a space for a new blog under POSTHAVEN (https://posthaven.com/). This is a new blogging platform maintained by Garry Tan (one of the posterous programmers) for a flat $5/month fee. If you want to preserve the 'Posterous' feel and functionality, and presumably, the least amount of hassle, then POSTHAVEN is the way to go. The only thing is that it is a paid service. Most people (teachers in particular), don't like to pay for any web services. The POSTHAVEN team's claim is that they will not shut down their services as long as you pay. There's the promise of stability. The money transaction is transparent. You know that you are paying for a service, and this seems refreshing. For a teacher, is it worth having a stable presence for $60 a year? For some it would. It's your call. What am I going to do? I have more than six posterous blogs that are more or less active. The chaos that this news has brought me challenges me to rethink what kind of web-presence I desire to have and what am I willing to sacrifice (time, cost, focus, energy) to move forward. POSTHAVEN seems like the easiest way to go but there's still an emotional resentment billowing out of me regarding anything to do with posterous. I am not totally justified in my reaction though. I did receive a free service for many years that actually helped my career along. I should be grateful. The fact that I can still get all my content out and transferred to other services is also a nice thing that posterous did. I guess, I don't like disruption. The chaos that is frittering about my head is unsettling. I will have to sweat a bit to make what I have done before better. I sort of do see these developments as a positive thing. I may just create my own space, pay for hosting, and a domain and rest in that I have a little more control, albeit, when it comes to the web, how much control do we really have anyway? Stay tuned to see what I finally settle on. Here's a TechCrunch article link to read regarding this news: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/15/posterous-will-shut-down-on-april-30th-co-fo...
Roger
If you have a lot of content that you want to preserve, then use the EXPORT button and follow the procedure given. All this does is take all your content off the site and give you a back up of it. I believe it's all the files-including photos, video and audio. After this, you have a few choices: 1. Transfer your exported files to: Wordpress or Squarespace. Both of these are blogging platforms. Wordpress is free but limited (wordpress.com). I have used wordpress before and all the frustrations of wacky interfaces-it's dated back-end management UI are a part of what you get. This is acceptable because it is a free service. You get what you pay for and folks should not complain. Most importantly, they have a 'posterous importer' though I have not tried it yet. Squarespace is a paid, but more capable service (squarespace.com). I have also used Squarespace for consulting services I have done and it is generally a more user-friendly, but at the same time quite powerful service. They also have a 'posterous importer'. The fees currently of this post are about double that of POSTHAVEN (to be explained below) and that means you are making a significant change financially from free. Squarespace, can also host your web domain and there are streamlining benefits to that. Their customer service is also excellent in my experience. 2. Reserve a space for a new blog under POSTHAVEN (https://posthaven.com/). This is a new blogging platform maintained by Garry Tan (one of the posterous programmers) for a flat $5/month fee. If you want to preserve the 'Posterous' feel and functionality, and presumably, the least amount of hassle, then POSTHAVEN is the way to go. The only thing is that it is a paid service. Most people (teachers in particular), don't like to pay for any web services. The POSTHAVEN team's claim is that they will not shut down their services as long as you pay. There's the promise of stability. The money transaction is transparent. You know that you are paying for a service, and this seems refreshing. For a teacher, is it worth having a stable presence for $60 a year? For some it would. It's your call. What am I going to do? I have more than six posterous blogs that are more or less active. The chaos that this news has brought me challenges me to rethink what kind of web-presence I desire to have and what am I willing to sacrifice (time, cost, focus, energy) to move forward. POSTHAVEN seems like the easiest way to go but there's still an emotional resentment billowing out of me regarding anything to do with posterous. I am not totally justified in my reaction though. I did receive a free service for many years that actually helped my career along. I should be grateful. The fact that I can still get all my content out and transferred to other services is also a nice thing that posterous did. I guess, I don't like disruption. The chaos that is frittering about my head is unsettling. I will have to sweat a bit to make what I have done before better. I sort of do see these developments as a positive thing. I may just create my own space, pay for hosting, and a domain and rest in that I have a little more control, albeit, when it comes to the web, how much control do we really have anyway? Stay tuned to see what I finally settle on. Here's a TechCrunch article link to read regarding this news: http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/15/posterous-will-shut-down-on-april-30th-co-fo...
Roger
