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I don't think it's "better" per se but rather more tailored toward a different group of people. Each one has their pros.

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That said, Tumblr's features seems to be a subset of posterous these days. I am a big tumblr user, but I ended to migrating to Posterous for it's much less work for even greater sharing power.

Maybe my use case is weird, but I found Posterous annoying. I tried to use it over and over and every time I hit some weird limitation that kept me from doing what I wanted.

The final straw was posting code. Tumblr makes that stupid easy (since they accept Markdown), so I can just do that instead of trying to figure out the magic incantation to make it work on Posterous (gists or something? I don't know. It wasn't documented when I last tried).

Did you know we support embedding Github Gists? Just paste the gist URL and we do the rest.

Markdown etc has been a much-wanted feature, even for ourselves internally. We try to focus on normals as much as possible, so it hasn't hit the top of our priority list yet, but it has been rising in the list without a doubt.

Right. I suppose Sachin has to say that Posterous is for everyone, but it's really not. Those who want to socially share within a walled community will continue to use Facebook. Those who want to curate their media online without as much context will continue use Picasa, Flickr, and the others. So Posterous' niche will involve some mix of people in between, I think.

I will say though that their service is dead simple to use. But then again the Facebook and Flickr exporters are pretty easy to use, too.

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