My complaints about Posterous so far

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I’ve been using Posterous pretty heavily for less than 24 hours now. Here are my complaints so far:

  • No Disqus comments integration.
  • Autoposting seems to only work when it wants.
  • If you have multiple Posterous blogs, you can’t granularly choose which ones autopost to which services when you e-mail post@blogname.posterous.com.
  • No way to upload an image from web editor. (And I’d like to be able to crop images I upload this way.)
  • There’s apparently no way to set your time zone, which results in incorrect time stamps.
Aside from those, this is working pretty well as a place to share my thoughts without having to worry about any kind of formal structure. 

 

  • Peter Fleck

    Disqus – probably working on it. Hope they fix time stamps first. It’s all PST.Autoposting? To where? No problems here except for some docs & Scribd. Otherwise it’s smooth.Granular… I can post to twitter+flickr@blogname.posterous.com. Or flickr+youtube or whatever.Upload image: use gmail rich text editor and go to labs and enable image placement. Works OK.Time zone. What I said. Also a bug sometimes when you edit a post in the posterous editor and then save and it can’t find the page. Back button and save it again usually works.Posting private can be nice (private@blogname.posterous.com). Then you can see how it looks before release. You can also share the link for private posts if you want feedback.Peter

  • Peter Fleck

    Disqus – probably working on it. Hope they fix time stamps first. It’s all PST.Autoposting? To where? No problems here except for some docs & Scribd. Otherwise it’s smooth.Granular… I can post to twitter+flickr@blogname.posterous.com. Or flickr+youtube or whatever.Upload image: use gmail rich text editor and go to labs and enable image placement. Works OK.Time zone. What I said. Also a bug sometimes when you edit a post in the posterous editor and then save and it can’t find the page. Back button and save it again usually works.Posting private can be nice (private@blogname.posterous.com). Then you can see how it looks before release. You can also share the link for private posts if you want feedback.Peter

  • Doug Hamlin

    Thanks, Peter. I had some trouble this morning with autoposting to Twitter, Tumblr and WordPress.It’s good that you can e-mail twitter+flickr@blogname.posterous.com for example, but you can’t send posts on one Posterous blog to one Twitter account and another blog to another Twitter account. Tumblr has the same problem.

  • Doug Hamlin

    Thanks, Peter. I had some trouble this morning with autoposting to Twitter, Tumblr and WordPress.It’s good that you can e-mail twitter+flickr@blogname.posterous.com for example, but you can’t send posts on one Posterous blog to one Twitter account and another blog to another Twitter account. Tumblr has the same problem.

  • Peter Fleck

    I’m not sure if I get it. You’re talking about a single posterous account with multiple blogs. In that system you can only have a single twitter account attached. Is that what you mean? Hmm. You’re right. It would be nice to have multiple twitter accounts on a single posterous account. Maybe the code could be t-pfhyper or t-sewardtweets for mailing. I would send that along to the

  • Peter Fleck

    I’m not sure if I get it. You’re talking about a single posterous account with multiple blogs. In that system you can only have a single twitter account attached. Is that what you mean? Hmm. You’re right. It would be nice to have multiple twitter accounts on a single posterous account. Maybe the code could be t-pfhyper or t-sewardtweets for mailing. I would send that along to the

  • Doug Hamlin

    I realize I’m being a little confusing. Probably best to mock up what I’m thinking in Photoshop before sending it along. On the plus side, I just realized all I have to do to reply to your comment is hit reply. Sweet. Though I think Disqus does that too. 

  • Doug Hamlin

    I realize I’m being a little confusing. Probably best to mock up what I’m thinking in Photoshop before sending it along. On the plus side, I just realized all I have to do to reply to your comment is hit reply. Sweet. Though I think Disqus does that too. 

  • Peter Fleck

    I just figured out the commenting via email too! Was I close with what I said? if you have multiple Posterous accounts, you can hook to multiple single twitters. I have pfhyper and sewardprofile. They are separate.

  • Peter Fleck

    I just figured out the commenting via email too! Was I close with what I said? if you have multiple Posterous accounts, you can hook to multiple single twitters. I have pfhyper and sewardprofile. They are separate.