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Ask HN: Tumnblr, Posterous, Wordpress or Blogspot

3 pointsdropshopsa13 comments

Looking for the best option for a personal blog that must also functions as a personal Website.

I use blogger, have done since it was the first blogging service. (www.alexmacgregor.com)

There might be valid reasons to switch for sure but I like it's uptime, it uses static html and how I can login with my Google account.

If you're the type who will like to tinker with your site, WordPress is unmatched. Get hosting, install it and start exploring its incredible ecosystem of themes and plugins.

What about just using the service wordpress offer with out hosting?

You're considerably limited as far as customisation goes if you go for a Wordpress.com blog.

IMO if you want a hosted solution go with Tumblr, if you want a self-hosted solution go with WordPress (www.wordpress.org, not .com).

You can customise a Tumblr blog quite a lot and you have the added benefit of not needing to worry about bandwidth (should you strike it lucky and land on the first page of Digg). For greater customisation though (i.e. do basically whatever you want) you should go with WordPress (by far the most popular blogging solution on the Internet).

If hosted, but still want to own your content, don't go with Tumblr?

Posterous its blogging via e-mail rocks

YMMV. I wish they made their other interface (i.e. in-browser editor) more accessible.

Even after 100 times, I found it counter-intuitive and irritating that clicking "New Post" on my site would launch my email client instead of their editor. The latter is buried somewhere in Settings.

I had the same problem when I was experimenting with posterous, To get some pictures in my post was a big mission.

Then when I posted it, it grouped all the pictures together.

Our web editor is definitely in need of some love, and we'll be updating that later this year.

We're changing our "post" links to all go to the web editor. While email is still the #1 way our users post to posterous, those already on the web want to stay on the web.

For images: we default to grouping them together into a gallery. But you can also separate them out into individual photos.

-Sachin CEO, Posterous

My 2 cents:

1 thing i am dying to see in posterous is "preview" option plus the pages & link section is a littile clumsy.

are there plugins for Posterous? I saw they realsed an api a couple days ago.

you mean this? http://posterous.com/api

yes but has anything been built with it?

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