We want to make sure our users can move to other sites easily. If you have suggestions for our exporter, please let me know
The XML file in our export can be uploaded to Wordpress.
The XML file in our export can be uploaded to Wordpress.
If you want we could discuss keeping it alive rather than shutting it down (like what I've been doing with http://www.Reocities.com/).
I don't like large gaping holes in the web.
When a startup shuts down a product, they can donate the domain name or point it to the mirror to keep it alive.
Something like archive.org, with some donated servers and a couple of people working on it.
Twitter and other acquirers usually only want the team, and this is happening more and more. We are losing large parts of the web. I wouldn't be surprised if less than 1% of Posterous is exported and goes to live on in other forms. Either way the URLs and links all die.
Make static backups of these sites using their sitemaps[0] and then ask them to donate or point their domains
[0] https://posterous.com/sitemap.xml (warning: 1.5MB)