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When Posterous emerged I had high hopes for it.

But I quickly understood that their service wasn't meant to improve at all. Every problem I reported to them was dismissed (directly or indirectly).

I thought about the idea of posting via (plain-text) mail seriously, but they weren't sharing my mindset.

I left posterous long time ago and I see it was a wise decision.

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This isn't fair at all. Posterous was very responsive to user feedback and reported bugs. Posterous engineers spent much of their time answering support emails directly and finding solutions for users. As a matter of fact, support emails go directly to engineers inboxes. Perhaps the problem was that there just weren't enough engineers.

Posterous may not have found a way to make money but the site was definitely meant to improve IMHO. Email, Groups, Spaces, slideshows, sharing to multiple social networks -- the list goes on.

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