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Comment by pkrumins | Hacker News Reader

I'm trying posterous right now for the first time.

First impressions:

* It got the possessive of my name, Peteris, wrong. If the name ends in -is (or -us), the possessive is Peteris’ not "Peteris’s posterous". (Rule 1 from "The Elements of Style".)

* I am not sure why it needed me to validate my email, if I already sent the first mail from my mail and then signed up via the URL in the mail that came back. But it wasn't difficult so ok.

* Regging was really quick. Quickest I have ever had.

* Had a dot in the first post's title, it got deleted in the URL. Would have liked if it was rather replaced by a dash.

I like it overall. I am not going to use it actively as I already have a blog but I would if I hadn't as it gets you blogging in no time.

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The possessive thing actually varies according to stylebooks. The Chicago Manual of Style says to use 's in this circumstance (doesn't fall into one of its exceptions for when to omit the 2nd s), and the MLA Handbook says to always use 's for possessives of singular nouns.

Oh, I see. Didn't know that.

And the Oxford Guide to Plain English (which I recommend) says that both are correct.

Thanks for the feedback -- this is helpful. The registration step is part of our security, tough to get around if you look at all the possible cases.

My biggest beef with Posterous's design is that they direct me to their front page too often. When I'm logged in, just take me to my blogs. How many times have I ever seen the front page of blogger?

I hear you. We've got some cool concepts on a dashboard coming... we literally just grew the team by 50% people (2 great engineers) in the last couple of weeks, so we hope to be putting out a lot more good stuff for you.

Mine is that with ordinary text emails, it will make very ugly HTML code, like putting hard breaks instead of proper HTML paragraphs (even though it shouldn't be that hard to do, with properly formatted emails). I wouldn't care about that much, but when somebody looks at the site with unexpectedly large fonts (and not even very large, with common 67 columns paragraphs and default posterous themes, it happens quite too often), the browser will break lines sooner than the hard break, and then again at the next line, after few characters. That sort of sucks.

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