Does every feature that posterous releases make it to the front page of HN? I mean, pages, it's not some super innovative new feature. Every friggin blog platform on the planet has the ability to create pages.
How is this newsworthy and why are people up-voting it?
I have to question your reasons for making a stand just now on the re-implementation of standard website features throughout the proliferation of diverse web publishing systems. It's been quite a ride since the first CMSs decades ago but the scenery has been much the same, you must admit.
You can claim that the release of standard CMS features by one company or another is not newsworthy (which is why we have the little arrow over there by the link) but I'd then submit that most developments by technology companies (large and small) are less then entirely novel. If those developments are deemed not-news-worthy, HN will have even less to do with the activities of entrepreneurial operations.
Seems like they are actually following the mantra of releasing a dead simply product quickly, and the slowly adding more features so that in the end, the users might as well have signed up for WordPress or Tumblr or similar sites in the beginning. Clever.
I understand that Posterous's "Pages" is a feature, not a product. However, it unpleasantly reminds me of two products named Pages, Facebook Pages and Apple Pages.
There have been several times this year where I was searching for answers to questions about Pages, and it was a miserable experience. In part, it was due to the confusion between Facebook Profiles and Facebook Pages, but it was still miserable.
Now I am inherently biased against naming a feature or product Pages. It's tricky w/ features, because you want it simple yet distinct,. Unfortunately, the trend is heading towards the "The" and "A".
Using a generic name for a product sucks in general in terms of finding information about it. People don't tend to say "Apple Pages" in every reference to the app. "Windows" is an exception because it was huge before the idea of Web search hit the mainstream ;-)
You can't host your own Posterous and it has fewer features and no third party plugins but it's easier to use, has built in syndication to TwitFace, and is probably far more secure than WordPress.
(Edit: How is this wrong? Was it my playful nickname for Twitter and Facebook collectively?)
The difference is obvious: Posterous lets you post anything from anywhere, and they host it for you with zero setup. Of course the key feature for its success is email posting!
One has an elite startup feel, and the other is a platform for "normal" people that just happens to have a popular open source version that you can install on your own server.
[+] [-] aidanf|16 years ago|reply
How is this newsworthy and why are people up-voting it?
[+] [-] nnash|16 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jjames|16 years ago|reply
You can claim that the release of standard CMS features by one company or another is not newsworthy (which is why we have the little arrow over there by the link) but I'd then submit that most developments by technology companies (large and small) are less then entirely novel. If those developments are deemed not-news-worthy, HN will have even less to do with the activities of entrepreneurial operations.
[+] [-] maukdaddy|16 years ago|reply
Posterous Reveals Radical New Feature: FRAMES!
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[+] [-] rmorrison|16 years ago|reply
There have been several times this year where I was searching for answers to questions about Pages, and it was a miserable experience. In part, it was due to the confusion between Facebook Profiles and Facebook Pages, but it was still miserable.
Now I am inherently biased against naming a feature or product Pages. It's tricky w/ features, because you want it simple yet distinct,. Unfortunately, the trend is heading towards the "The" and "A".
[+] [-] petercooper|16 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] philwelch|16 years ago|reply
(Edit: How is this wrong? Was it my playful nickname for Twitter and Facebook collectively?)
[+] [-] dimarco|16 years ago|reply
Regardless, I think Posterous boasts simplicity over WordPress.
A standard WordPress install starts you off with 7 different active widgets. There are thousands of WordPress plugins to do thousands of things.
Posterous is an example of "less is more", in my opinion.
I'm much more likely to read a Posterous blog(with standard themeing) all the way to the end than I am most WordPress blogs.
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[+] [-] bradgessler|16 years ago|reply
Read http://posterous.com/faq for details on what you can do with an email post on Posterous.
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