Posterous was kind enough to provide help to migrate to other services. Some media companies and individuals also posted their solutions<\/a>. Many claiming that not all of the data could be transferred to other platforms. I was lucky enough I only had links to my own blog<\/strong> there so I haven’t lost much<\/strong> (except the links in my old Twitter\/Wordpress\/Tumblr posts don’t work anymore).<\/p>\n I had this conversation <\/strong>on the Twitter about this event with @n0v0id<\/a>:<\/p>\n @mkljun: Web browsers on Windows OS – comparison of vertical vs. horizontal tabs http:\/\/<\/span>post.ly\/ARwyt<\/span><\/a> The question that comes to mind is: How safe is to rely entirely on the cloud? <\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Pay for the cloud services? <\/strong>There are services that charge users a few bucks a month and claim they’ll keep going for decades to come. But is there any guarantee? Suppose I pay and there is not enough users? Suppose I pay, there’s enough users but company is not profitable enough in the eyes of stakeholders? Suppose the company is profitable, but a big competitor to some other company which decides to buy it and shut it down.<\/p>\n 2. Trust information to a reputable company?<\/strong> Even the giant G has closed a few services in the past. This route has no guarantee either. Remember Buzz and Wave? I used the latter! Gone. <\/p>\n 3. Use the cloud but have a local backup?<\/strong> This seems to be the most reasonable path but not an easy-to-implement option for many. My blog for example is hosted at FAMNIT and even if they decide to take it down I still have a copy of my files and my database on my computer. Keep in mind that I keep private things like meeting minutes and research ideas in my blog. So my blog is not only about "how to fix you XY" kind of things. <\/p>\n At the end of the day I like to have a peace of mind. I know my information is platform independent and can be set up anywhere.<\/strong> Even if my web host closes down I can move to another. <\/p>\n There certainly is a need of open standards, portability and greater interoperability on the web<\/strong>. <\/strong>And all this in the light of our privacy and ownership of our personal information. <\/strong><\/p>\n I used Posterous for disseminating my blog posts to a variety of other services. Three (or more) years ago, they advertised this feature all over as they tried to gain more users. I was one of them. Just a week ago when I posted my previous post I was greeted by this message: Posterous is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-pim-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
@n0v0id: "Posterous Spaces is no longer available"
@mkljun: I know .. I just realised it today … damn cloud :). Company’s gone, personal information’s gone :\/.
@n0v0id: Yes, that’s my experience also. My blog is gone, Google Reader quits, … Gonna avoid the cloud in the future. Seriously.<\/span>#<\/s>cloud<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n![](\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Posterous_sd.png\")
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