[pablohoffman]

I also find annoying that Posterous, for some reason, appends numeric suffixes arbitrarily to certain post slugs (for example: http://blog.pablohoffman.com/hi-posterous-58). It's like they have to make the post slug "globally unique", instead of "unique per blog", although they shouldn't have to.

It wouldn't be that bad if you could change the slug/url but, as the article correctly points out, you can't.

[jrnkntl]

This is indeed a namespace thing, every posterous blog uses the same global namespace. They said this will be changed.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1443020

[ydant]

There are little quirks in the service that make it seem pretty obvious the (first) custom sub-domains and then (later) custom domains were added on later. The namespace issue seems downright silly until you remember that fact.

Now that every blog is on its own subdomain at the least, I'd imagine this could be cleaned up - hopefully with the ability for custom URLs at the same time...

[rksprst]

Google actually wants you to add a unique number to the URLs. It's in one of their FAQs. That's probably why there are doing it (to help with seo on Google).

[chaosmachine]

"Google actually wants you to add a unique number to the URLs."

I think you're mistaken.

[justinchen]

I think that used to be a requirement for Google News inclusion, but I heard they dropped it.

[chaosmachine]

Interesting, you're correct:

http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-news-no-longer-requires-st...