Private sites on Posterous

You can set a password on your Posterous site so only the readers you want can see it.

How does someone see my site?

• To see your site, a user must go to your site url and also enter the correct password for your site.
• If a user check the "Remember me" box, their computer will have access to your site for 1 year.
• If a user does not check the "Remember me" box, their computer will lose access when the browser is closed.
• A user can log out of your site by clicking the "Log out of site" link.
• All contributors to your site can view the site with no password.

How do subscriptions work?

• Only a user with your site password can subscribe to your site.
• Subscriptions work like any other: the site will appear in the user's email notifications and Posterous Reader.
• Private sites will not appear on pages listing a user's subscribed sites.
• Only site contributors can view who is subscribed to a private site.

How does RSS work?

• The normal RSS feed for a site (sitename.posterous.com/rss.xml) will not work.
• A secret RSS feed is generated (sitename.posterous.com/private/longsecrettext/rss.xml). This link can be found on the private site itself (if a user has access to that site).
• Posts from private sites will not show up in a user's Posterous Reader RSS feed.

What else?

• Posts on private sites will not show up in Facebook in any way.
• Posts on private sites will not autopost anywhere.
• Posts on private sites will not show up in search or explore.

Resetting access

• Changing the password to your site will reset access for all users who have been to your site. It will also change your secret RSS feed.
• Clicking the "Reset site access" button on the edit site page will reset access for users, reset the RSS feed, and also remove all subscribers to your site.