It's pretty good. It has solved part of my biggest problem, which was the images. Previously, I had to upload images to imgur and then link then, but now I can upload them directly.
I'll still be using imgur though, because they only allow uploading images from your computer and they have no resize option. I usually search of flickr, right click, get the url, add by url to imgur and let it resize to 500. With posterous, I'd have to download it, resize with photoshop, reupload it, which is more work.
It also does not allow me save drafts, so I'll have to keep these in my text files still.
All the same, posterous is good enough for my needs. The reason I use posterous is really ONLY because of this:
- The pageview counter on the right
- The backtype widget at the bottom
- The fact that some people subscribe using posterous
- I don't seem to get much spam there
If those things were not there, I would have changed to wordpress a long time ago. Yes, I know I could add some wordpress plug-ins, but I really can't be bothered, you know.
And if I had a wordpress blog with a pageview counter, it would look pretentious, because everyone would know I added it, but a posterous blog looks normal because it's part of the default.
That's why I use posterous - not because I love it, but because it's easy, it works, and it has some minor things I prefer over the other alternatives.
For images, any uploads do get resized to a 500px version automatically. Also if you paste a raw URL to an image (must end with .jpg, .gif or .png), we download and resize to 500px if you just drop the URL to the image on its own line in the post. I use it all the time.
For drafts, private posts actually work quite well. Flip it live and hit autopost to push.
Doesn't it mean that you have to pay for imgur premium account so they wouldn't (possibly) delete your image after some period of time when they are not viewed? (Of course, maybe they are viewed all the time, and after all, it's not that much money and quite useful anyway.)
See sample: http://blog.cubeofm.com/private/HkgpEbuDGE
I'll still be using imgur though, because they only allow uploading images from your computer and they have no resize option. I usually search of flickr, right click, get the url, add by url to imgur and let it resize to 500. With posterous, I'd have to download it, resize with photoshop, reupload it, which is more work.
It also does not allow me save drafts, so I'll have to keep these in my text files still.
All the same, posterous is good enough for my needs. The reason I use posterous is really ONLY because of this:
- The pageview counter on the right
- The backtype widget at the bottom
- The fact that some people subscribe using posterous
- I don't seem to get much spam there
If those things were not there, I would have changed to wordpress a long time ago. Yes, I know I could add some wordpress plug-ins, but I really can't be bothered, you know.
And if I had a wordpress blog with a pageview counter, it would look pretentious, because everyone would know I added it, but a posterous blog looks normal because it's part of the default.
That's why I use posterous - not because I love it, but because it's easy, it works, and it has some minor things I prefer over the other alternatives.