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I didn't use Posterous because it lacked markdown support. Funny though, that a little over a year ago, "Gary Tan" (company rep) said the company wanted to implement this "soon".

http://getsatisfaction.com/posterous/topics/markdown_or_anot...

Better late than never, eh?

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Posterous was in my YC batch and the first thing I suggested to them was reST support. They've obviously had bigger fish to fry. Meanwhile, instead of taking an hour to implement a simple script to process markdown files into HTML and send them to Posterous, you've chosen to complain that a super-niche feature was actually released.

There is no reST library for ruby that I could find.

Yeah, I wouldn't really hold my breath for one, either. The closest anybody has come as far as I can tell is here: http://github.com/alphabetum/rbst and all that does is wrap docutils' reST processing.

Markdown is super-niche? News to me.

The point is not about complaining, its that the company said a year ago that they would push it soon

Yea, really, who cares? The overwhelming majority of people will never use this feature.

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