Re:Why I'm investing in Windows Phone and skipping Android
by DanielBMarkham on Friday March 19, 2010 @01:21PM
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As a follow, in case any of the posterous guys are listening, Max and I played around a bit and could not replicate the error.
My current guess -- it's not my problem so all I have is a guess -- is that under heavy load, posterous fails to resolve the blog name and instead takes new users to the splash page. This may be a scaling problem, or it could be random pestering. From a user's standpoint, it looks a lot like pestering.
I'll email you the image.
It says it can't find the link, and I get sent to the posterous splash page.
Interestingly enough, it looks like every other page request I send to posterous today from this browser will be honored. But if I switch to a new browser and go to click on a blog that's hosted on posterous, back I go to their "can't find the link and wouldn't you like to start using our service!" page.
Perhaps it's just a bug. But it's a bug that acts exactly like somebody continuously trying to get me to start using something I do not want to use. So whether it's intentional or not, it's annoying as hell.