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p.ostero.us

1 point·justinkelly··3 comments

Hi Guys

I'm a long time posterous user and not happy with the recent twitter acquisition.

Twitter is ganna put posterous in maintenance mode and forget about it - this is not how I want my blog and websites hosted

Instead of doing something stupid like moving to wordpress, I've setup http://p.ostero.us. A paid Octopress + more blogging platform aimed squarely at the disenchanted posterous users

Octopress is amazing and I want to make it available to non commandline loving people

I've setup a 'kickstarter' at http://www.indiegogo.com/postposterous to get some initial cash in the bank to make this happen asap * Australian resident so no kickstarter.com for me :(

Let me know if you have any queries, I really think the time is right for octopress to shine

Cheers

Justin

That seems like a really terrible violation of Posterous' brand and trademarks. There is also a lot more to keeping a blogging service running for posterity than just charging. It is a huge responsibility for people to entrust you with their content, one not to be taken lightly.

agreed, with p.ostero.us - the goal is data portability - i dont want to own your content - just a nice way to display it - your content can be from your github repo etc..

- plus - with 1 click you can download your entire p.ostero.us/octopress install and self host whenever you want ( all the data is yours ) - thats the feature i wish posterous had

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