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January 4, 2009

Posterous: Analytics (yay) - Tag RSS (boo)

Posterous has recently added support for Google Analytics, making the service instantly more valuable. Not that I strictly need this myself, but I do find the stats fascinating.

Sadly though, I just discovered that the blog does lack one important feature I had assumed it would have: RSS feeds for each tag.

Being able to filter content by tag is tremendously useful, and I can already see from my analytics that people do filter my content. The Torchwood tag seems the most popular. I also like being able to filter just the photos. It would be nice to syndicate content in this way.

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November 26, 2008

Custom templates for Posterous?

I'm sure this has been suggested before, but Posterous really needs to offer some theming options. I happen to really like the design, and the colours work for me too, but it would be nice to have *some* flexibility. It could be as simple as just a few colour scheme presets or as advanced as full CSS access!

In a similar vein, I'd love to be able to add some JavaScript (actually, Google Analytics is all I really care about here).

Finally, I've attached a mockup below for an alternate layout I prefer. I think moving the user profile pic up next to the blog name helps give the page more individuality, which is what Posterous really lacks.

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October 11, 2008

Posterous feature suggestion: Email signature removal

The single most useful feature of Posterous is the ability to write blog posts via email. It's the whole selling point, to me at least. Unfortunately, I work for a company that appends a signature disclaimer to the end of every email I send. I have no control over this - it's added after I hit 'send'!

It'd be great if Posterous had an option to delete signatures before posting. Most email uses dashes (---), or similar, to seperate the signature, and I imagine this could be used.

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No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced

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October 10, 2008

Posterous comments = FAIL

I had a direct tweet with some feedback to my first post:

I'd leave a comment (re tags), but Posterous requires me to sign up first - FAIL!

I think he raises a good point. Can we have OpenID support? Disqus or FriendFeed integration? Or just the ability to enable comments to non-Posterous users? Seems like a pretty basic omission to me...

EDIT: My bad... see the comments. It turns individual Posterous users can enable anonymous comments. And I have! Thanks (again!) Sahchin.

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