Stop being a necromancer and resurrecting a dead service. There's got to be a good reason why they killed Posterous, so let it die. Let it go; stop holding onto the past.
Please read the intro to the blog post and think again. I've seen these comments by the boatload when we took on saving geocities and you are simply wrong.
Is there a place I can find this Geocities archive? I apparently missed something I wanted to keep when I archived my own stuff, and I'm wondering if I can find it again.
This isn't resurrecting a dead service nor is it about that. This is archiving it and making the previously public data stay public.
Why would someone do that?
Well, a lot of people have poured their hearts out and made content that lives on Posterous. They might miss the "sunsetting" (asshole term) of the service and lose their content.
Think of all the dead links that'll be around after the service have died. Wouldn't you be able to read something great that was linked from HN a year ago? From the Wayback Machine or similar?
There's plenty of reasons to archive the web and the content that goes up (and down).
I've never visited posterous.com until today, but I fail to see why Twitter would buy it and kill it.. can't be that horrific. It's like buying a house and setting it on fire.
What am I missing? Are they just killing off competition?
They probably bought it for the people. So there would be no one left to work on the Posterous site if everyone is working on Twitter instead. I know they didn't buy it for the infrastructure since it's hosted on Rackspace and Twitter is an AWS shop.
