Well, for my part, lack of visual customization is the sole reason I don't use Posterous for everything I blog. You reeled us in with cool tricks, but I'm not sure how I can ever make it my core blog if it can't improve visually.
It's also one of the key reasons I haven't yet recommended it to my friends who aren't early adopters. My less tech-savvy friends who use LiveJournal and Myspace see the service more as a geek toy. I showed my wife how easy it was to get content added and she loved it-- but she'd never tell anyone to actually go there unless she can put her personality onto the page.
For my part, I don't care so much for custom pre-built themes-- I just need a way to add my own CSS.
And then I see responses that don't agree that this is the #1 thing on Posterous's plate and it makes me sad as a user. I know how unfun that kind of customization is to code, so the geek in me can relate 100%-- yet speaking as a user, let's just get this feature already and let that be the one I see announced on HN.YC instead of these other cool features you guys want to add.
Keep up the good work, though. You guys make good stuff, no doubt.
It's also one of the key reasons I haven't yet recommended it to my friends who aren't early adopters. My less tech-savvy friends who use LiveJournal and Myspace see the service more as a geek toy. I showed my wife how easy it was to get content added and she loved it-- but she'd never tell anyone to actually go there unless she can put her personality onto the page.
For my part, I don't care so much for custom pre-built themes-- I just need a way to add my own CSS.
And then I see responses that don't agree that this is the #1 thing on Posterous's plate and it makes me sad as a user. I know how unfun that kind of customization is to code, so the geek in me can relate 100%-- yet speaking as a user, let's just get this feature already and let that be the one I see announced on HN.YC instead of these other cool features you guys want to add.
Keep up the good work, though. You guys make good stuff, no doubt.