5 reasons you may regret using posterous

Actually this is more of a Wordpress vs posterous..

1. Posterous is a closed source platform, if you don’t get closed vs open source yet then I recommend you do some reading because open source is the corner stone of 99% of the successful publishing platforms used long term on the internet.

2. You can’t export your posterous blog to an xml file, you can get your blog posts but you cant export comments etc. so if you move you will lose data.

3. Did you even know you can post to a wordpress blog via email? Just saying… Cos y’know most people don’t…

4. Applications have a natural growth pattern, posterous will eventually want to compete with the big boys and in turn will become a complex beast which is probably the reason you avoided other blog platforms..

5. You can’t assign plugins or widgets ie the fantastic CBBC news feed, Primary Games Arena or BrainPOP UK widgets.

Basically posterous is a short term solution that might get you started blogging but I warn you not to invest too much time into it because when you decide to move away you are going to lose data.

I believe in a) open source and b) teachers using long term solutions to problems as to reduce head ache in the future. So yep, I’m biased as I run a wordpress blog site but I also feel like no one has proper addressed this issue.  It is really easy to move from posterous to a wordpress blog provider such as PrimaryBlogger, just use the import tool.