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I also tout the great features of posterous on our weekly live video tech show at corndogcomputers.com

Now that I've checked out the app....

BIG disappointment!

While some of the new features you have included in the app are nice, how can you forget adding text to the photo and video uploads? With such a fundamental feature missing I am going to have to stick to updating by email.

I really hope you get this feature added soon in a future release.

I'll probably rename that "title" since it's causing confusion. Thanks!

Ok, that does help some... But while I can add a title to the photo / video I am still not able to include any description like I can while updating via email.

I was also hoping that the app would allow me to do text only updates as well.

Thanks again, looking forward to the updates.

But i'll add that, it's easy :)

The app is a great start, but what's disappointing is it seems like it's a step back from the email updating and not a step forward like I had hoped. The new features are nice, but I would have rather have had all of the normal features that we have when we update via email before you added new ones.

Thanks for all of your hard work!

Robert: well, no features are removed and you can still use the camera + mail combination straight from your iPhone and it still works extremely well... The app simply serves a slightly different use case right now.

The strength of Posterous comes from its email once, post everywhere philosophy... The app is only a cherry on cake to better serve the needs of "live" updaters right now :-)

Posterous makes me happy.

It's also kind of weird that this app is so centered around the pictures. Pictures are a big part but I dont really see what the advantage is over email. I think I'm just going to stick with email for now it seems.

All that said, I still love Posterous and it's obvious your momentum isnt stopping anytime soon.

Great job Sachin and Gary and crew !!

B Flat: yeah, I wanted to do something different with this app, not just another blogging program. The idea here is to make photo uploads to posts automatic, kill the explicit "ok, now i have to post"

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/windowsphone/archive/2009/07/31/ready-to-port-your-iphone-app-to-windows-mobile.aspx

The app focuses on very simple photo uploading with a unique "live updating" feature to particular albums (it's called "Pic"Posterous, right!)

This solves a "photo problem" and is not what users "expected"...an app to augment the already cool/simple process of posting to your blog. Yes, pictures tell stories...but writers/bloggers want to write a bit of story to give them more context.

The good thing is that the app is cool and the feedback & suggestions will only help shape this into another unique tool that challenges the conventional way of doing things. This is the web...changes made on the fly (and you guy move fast!)

S&G, the open communication you have established is great...people are talking and you listen. Because you make things simple, people are engaged and the "what we" & "how we" post is more inspiring/useful to us and hopefully to followers. The openness here can only help you guys do what you are doing very well...even better.

Make a few adjustments in V.2 to keep the simple edict and allow more control and more coolness.

My wish list: body text, autopost control as with email (this is so unique that it HAS to be in there), get the simple yellow box branding on the app and a way to notify that the album/post has been updated with more pics.

Thanks. @judd6149

Judd, thanks for your comments. Totally agree. I designed the app to do one thing, post photos from events live. It's not a general purpose Posterous app (as you noted, it's not even called "Posterous"). When you use the app for what it was designed to do, it's pretty great

Yaniel, we're experiencing a backlog on autopost. Sorry about that.

It seems to lag when autoposting... also, I am also confused about the "album" thing (when do the pictures actually get sent to posterous)... maybe a youtube video walkthrew?

Thank you for simplifying my internet life. Keep up the awesome work!

Like the iPhone app, but wish it was more robust. Would love a separate space for tagging as some of our users are a bit tech scared. I would also like the ability to add text to images as well, but one other request for the app would be the ability to attach an audio file along with an image or an album. Similar to audioboo

I have been doing this by creating an audio file, then act as if I am going to email it, copy the file, open pictures, pick the album, go to email that and then paste the audio file. It is a bit cumbersome...

Perhaps I am doing it wrong, but if not having a clean way to add audio files alongside images in the app would be amazing and would truly make posterous a total solution for us... then again, I may be alone in this request :)

It good be nice if something similar is implemented to add photos/videos to an existing post by sending emails with new content. In that way it could be used with any smart phone and it would also allow to add content to any post already published.

@R I asked the same thing!!

1) added a photo twice by mistake and could not figure out how to delete it from the album on iPhone OR on posterous.
2) tried to delete a photo from the album on Posterous but it deleted the WHOLE album! Can't figure out how to get it back online.
3) tried to add the album to another of my Posterous sites but could not get it to go there either after signing in with the other email.

I'm confused about what to do now--don't want to add those 17 or so photos to an album again. And still several more to go.

Agree with those who want to add captions to photos as an option. These are pics from SLCC09 and I need to identify the people in each shot for other attendees. Without that it's useless.

Posterous I added the album to first:
http://ldorland.posterous.com
Place I tried to add it later while adding more photos:
http://brain-explosions.posterous.com

Help! I have an album that is no longer online. How to fix?

We dont update twitter for each photo posted, only after the first photo

I've just made my first Posterous post and it's about Posterous at http://www.hendyirawan.com/2009/08/24/blog-on-your-mobile-with-posterous/

It works very well! Thanks for the great service!

Is it just me or has the normal "updating via email" been VERY slow over the past week since this app was released? Some updates are completed in a few minutes like normal, and some take 30 minutes or more. Keep in mind these are only text updates. It's not only taking them a long time to be sent to Twitter, Facebook and my WP blog... but they are also taking an abnormal amount of time to make it to my Posterous blog and for me to get a response back (via email) from Posterous that my update has been received.

Has the release of the iPhone app overloaded the servers?

We're adding servers and growing to keep up as fast as we can!

No worries, as I am sure you are aware of by now I am one of your biggest fanboy's. I'm not going anywhere.

Keep up the great work!

Me too,  even for just text or a pic

Second, to control which posterous site you post to, use:
post@sitename.posterous.com

Picking the posterous destination has nothing to do with the # notation. Please see:

http://posterous.com/help/email_tips

I saw someone bring up making a Windows Mobile App, I use Vox just for their mobile blogging app, you guys got them hands down on all else. I know that with symbian, RIM, android etc is hard to make for every OS platform, but WinoMo does hold a HUGE chunk of the market. Keep up da sweet work guyz!

http://kapone.posterous.com

Still think this app does a great job and I look forward to any enhancements that may come in the future.