This seems like a really neat trick. At first. Then I read the rest of the damn post.

I have a reddit account. Why not just post 'hey, go check out reddit, neat stuff going on there?' instead of grabbing for page views?

 Check on the internet first before you pour on whatever brand you have lying around the house.

This is what I inevitably took away from this post at Lifehacker the other day.

I used to love this site, but c'mon - I thought I already was checking on the internet for this stuff. 

New tag created for this post, as it seems to be an ongoing theme - *sigh*

So. Quite by accident I found it!

Under 'Spaces,' click on the gear next to the 'Space' you want to edit, and select 'Customize…'

Now as soon as it shows you the wonderful themes you can select, click cancel. Yes, cancel. We don't want to edit the theme, we want to manage posts and that's why we've come here!

Once you cancel, be very careful - you're now on a page that allows you to edit and mess with posts from the past (and I'm guessing drafts and such) all in one place. But don't click on a tab at the top, because you'll never get back here again without feigning that you want to customize your theme.

That's right, it's easy as pie to get to a feature you use maybe, um, once a month if your fiddley, once *ever* for most, I imagine, but to get to a feature many probably use every day it is:

• not intuitive where it is located
• eclipsed by other features of questionable usability
• I don't think it's even supposed to be there…

Honestly, I was expecting all that stuff to be lodged squarely under 'Activity…' but apparently I don't follow anybody (or maybe all the dozens of people I do follow aren't going for this social shit right yet) but that tab is useless.

*sigh*

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And THESE are the problems I experienced the first time I used the new app…

What error occurred?

Also, this YouTube/google thing is ridiculous and I run into it everywhere. Wudupwitdat? I don't blame the guys at posterous here, but it colored my initial experience a bit as I player around.

Final complaint: blog posting iPhone app with no textexpander support. Pfffft.

All kidding aside, the new(est) app is neat, easy to use, kinda sparkly. I'll probably use it. But it's little details. Especially when you built a service around emailing and posting to a blog from ANYWHERE including twitter. That's really easy, but ironically I think that power was lost on normals for some reason. An app to win back mind share with the "duh"s has to nail it. This is very very close!