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Don't forget to download your Posterous blog

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posterous.com will shut down in 2 days, don't forget to download your blog backup! http://blog.posterous.com/thanks-from-posterous

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I wish I could - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5621245

I had a similar problem, but it was fixed a couple of hours ago.

Now I'm getting:

    The specified key does not exist

Really, really fed up with this crap. Wishing I'd never started with Posterous, and taking lessons for how I treat my users in the future.

Anyone know why this is listed under https://news.ycombinator.com/ask?

The /ask page lists text posts, i.e. those which include a text body rather than a link (what reddit calls "self-posts"). It's named "ask" because "Ask HN" posts are one of the more common kinds of text posts, but it treats all text posts the same.

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