[maxklein]

The problem with Posterous is that the changes they have made over the past 8 months (since I started using it) have been small and irrelevant things (like code highlighting or such stuff).

When I write, I want to be appreciated and I want my writing to reach a big audience. Tumblr achieves that, posterous never made any change in that direction.

Posterous started off cool and fresh, but that initial slew of innovation has not been followed up on. Things like the backtype widget, view count, etc all were there from the start, and later not much new stuff came after that.

Posterous have focused too much on these technical stuff (like CSS buttons), and too little on the social stuff. I write for people to read, not for my page to look good.

Don't get me wrong, I like posterous a lot. But I just think posterous is simple by being limiting.

[rantfoil]

We're definitely working on it. =) But this feedback is super helpful. Thanks Max.

[maxklein]

See reply below to Matt for more details of what I meant.

[listic]

On the other hand, I hate social stuff. I write notes in Tumblr for myself, because it looks simple. Occasionally show them to my friends when I want to. I don't want to follow ar be followed by anyone. I don't write in Posterous... why, really?

But I guess, I'm irreleveant.

[mattmaroon]

What "social stuff" do you find missing out of curiosity?

[maxklein]

I want a proper count of how my story is spreading in social networks (or graphs). I would like facebook + twitter commenting. I would like it to spread among smaller or alternative social networks. I'd like it to be possible for people to be notified even if they are not in the posterous network. I'd like integration with other commenting systems. I'd like "likes" or something equivalent. I'd like posterous "retweets" or such within the posterous network.

I don't mean social as in posterous creating their own social network, that would be silly. I just want tighter and deeper integration with social collections, such that what I write can spread wider and be more appreciated.

Being able to embed and image in a post is not a feature I really appreciate much, since I know html and thus can solve it very quickly. But integrating deeply with other social networks is not something I'm familiar with, and having such features would be great for me.

[mattmaroon]

Interesting. Seems like those would help spread posterous too.