Well I've only been using Posterous seriously for a 48 hours now but I thought it would be useful to quickly publish my initial thoughts on my experiences so far since moving across from Tumblr
The Positives
- The Posterous interface is very feature rich and allows you to do pretty much anything through the web browser. The support for Markdown is also a great feature and makes creating richly formatted posts a dream
- The iPhone app, while not as sophisticated as the website, does allow you to easily manage multiple sites, something which you can do with Tumblr but it feels slightly more clunky.
- The auto post feature is brilliant and provides a whole host of services that you can integrate with and spread your content through. This is far more sophisticated than Tumblr and the ability to customise the format of the resulting posts is also great. This feature has also allowed me to move fully into Posterous, while still mirroring my content on Tumblr, giving me an escape route should I want it.
The Negatives
- I have a slight niggle with using auto post, in that you cannot easily choose on a post by post basis, which service this should go through. Some content I want to go everywhere but on occassions there is content I would prefer not to broadcast beyond the blog or only to a handful of services. I may be missing something but it looks like an all or nothing approach to me.
- For all the sophistication of the the interface I do miss the simplicity of Tumblr. This is especially prominent on the Posterous iPhone app, which I personally believe is quite clunky in comparison to Tumblr's and could do with some work. While Tumblr focussed on being simple you get the impression that the sophisticated extras that Posterous offers do slightly get in the way a bit and spoil the user experience slightly.
- Finally and this is a big one, I'm yet to find an easy way, short of using Automator (Mac) and the Posterous web services, to back-up my blog. It does concern me that all of the content I am creating is locked into the Posterous servers. The fact that I could do a local back-up or use a tool like Marsedit to keep a local copy of all of my posts, was a big plus point for Tumblr.
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