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In the past few weeks, it seems like posting a new message to Posterous Spaces works sporadically. I’ve been trying to get in touch with tech support, and all I got was a confirmation that on certain days it can take hours for an email port to show up in Posterous.

I suspect some people are abusing of the video posting capabilities of the email interface, all the while with under-provisioned servers to handle the email queue. Yes, it’s a FIFO queue, that does not prioritize in any way short plain-text emails like mine.

Another facet that annoys me is that the web interface for posting using anything but a full-fledged web browser, meaning an iPad or Opera Mini, seems to ignore line breaks in my messages unless I wrap everything within Markdown tags. Effectively, if they drop the Markdown support, I will have absolutely no reliable way of posting style-rich messages to Posterous from my iPhone or iPad. (BTW, their app doesn’t automatically save drafts, and does only plain text, so I’m avoiding it.)

Hey. Posterous staff, if you’re reading this, what used to be your killer feature (email posting) is rapidly going downhill while you can barely compete with Google+ since your redesign. Oh, and without any proper, non-crippled backup mechanism (#1 requested feature), you’re making me regret my decision of sticking with Posterous after all those years.