So unfortunate news to an extent. Posterous.com is going offline as of April 30th. It is really too bad because after years of trying to find the perfect blogging software/site for me I finally found it in Posterous last year. I went through everything from Blogger, to Wordpress to Tumblr and beyond. For whatever reason none of them really gelled with me. Blogger and Wordpress are great, but they are just a bit too "much" for what I am trying to do. I am not trying to run a fully featured blog here. I am instead just trying to jot my own little ideas down here and there on the web.
Tumblr I found to be "ok", but I wasn't really into the reblogging thing and they were constantly going down when I was using them. I also found their custom domain setup very poor a couple of years ago. So along came Posterous which fit the bill perfectly for me. A simply feature blogging site to get my info online. Commenting was easy and it has some good integration. Thankfully Posthaven has been setup in its place and to be honest I am at this point more than willing to pay $5 a month for the service and the convenience. At this point I am much more wanting to pay a little bit for the services I use to the get the stability and reliability I want out of them.
Here's to hoping it works out for the best.