Posterize.us: jaymike - Viewing Profile - Posterize.us

Previously Posterous used to make subscribing to a Space dead simple by providing a link to click on and give your email address. Done.

Now it seems the only way to "subscribe" is to either do so via RSS or use the "Follow" button in the corner and be forced to "Sign Up" for an account. I've been going back and forth with Posterous Support and am being told that is just the way it is. The only way around it is apparently to have the Space Admin add them manually from the "Manage" page. Obviously this doesn't scale well or allow for strangers who want to be subscribe to updates.

I'm going to have some potential viewers who simply want to subscribe and get email updates. They're not technical people (they can't even spell RSS) and are averse to signing up for yet another account (and yet another password). Is there really no way to allow them to just subscribe by email anymore?

When I was digging around on Google about this, I kept finding plenty of Posterous sites out there that still have the old functionality (including Sachin's) but I can't figure out how to integrate it. Here is another one picked randomly which still has the "Subscribe to this posterous" link.

The magic link seems to follow this format:

http://{URL}.com/mem...?site={site_id}

But I tried adding a link like that to one of my Spaces with my site ID. Could not get it to work. Any advice or feedback is appreciated. I'm currently using the Gridlock theme if that matters.

-j