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Continuing from my previous post ...
A day later, some of the functionality has returned, after Posterous' ill advised decision to mangle its own system, for the sake of being able to do a press release, but that functionality is far from being back to normal. The navigational problems mentioned yesterday remain in place, unresolved. But this is not to say that Posterous and Rich Peason have decided to do nothing about them. Far from it. Rich and company appear to have done a creative artwork, an alleged screenshot that supposedly showed how easily one could find one's way to one's own blog in the new system, something which, if you recall, many of us found that we couldn't do in Firefox, on this system that now carried a publicly posted warning against the use of Internet Explorer, which was said to not be supported by Posterous at that time. Mr. Pearson wrote
Just a quick update that we rolled out the first of a series of fixes to make it easier to manage posts. The screenshot below show the default "list view" that now appears for all the Spaces that you own or contribute to. Drafts will appear at the top of this list as will comments and those that need moderation. On the right, you can see a familiar way of editing and deleting posts. We're still working on the ability to tag and autopost from this view as well. On the top right, you'll see the ability to switch between the list view (the one we just added) and the expanded view (the old one). https://skitch.com/suyashsonwalkar/f3b96/posterous-spaces More to come to make tagging, auto-posting and adding/editing pages
I found this a little odd, and replied with a few brief comments, all but one of which were blocked by whoever was watching the company blog at the time.
(Note 1) Looking at the two pages on which I find a "create a post" button, I see nothing that looks at all like what was posted over on skitch. I'm screenshotting the top of those pages, now.
(Note 2) "Looking at the two pages on which I find a "create a post" button, I see nothing that looks at all like what was posted over on skitch. I'm screenshotting the top of those pages, now." And now I've screenshotted the bottom of this page, and the top of the page at skitch, for later documentation.
(Note 3) The screenshots I referred to ... What I'm seeing in my account:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/690/posterousspacesscreensh.jpg
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/155/posterousspacesscreensh.jpg
What I saw over on skitch
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/84/posterousspacesscreensh.jpg
and what was to be seen at the bottom of this page, when I posted my previous remark (which still hasn't appeared on the page), to show that I did screenshot the page that Rich linked to
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/823/posterousspacesscreensh.jpg
Click on each of the images at the other end of each of the links, and you'll see an enlargement of the image. There would seem to be a little bit of a discrepancy between what Rich is showing, and what I can see on my own account. I was wondering if Rich could explain that.
Only the comment marked "note 2" in the above list was approved, Rich, or whoever was handling the comments for the post creating the illusion that I had talked about taking the screenshots without posting any such screenshots, publicly. Having then acted to keep the general public from seeing something that really didn't support what he was saying, Pearson then acted as if he were actively seeking that which he had just hidden.
@Joseph - this seems like a bug. Can you please send in the screenshots to [email protected] so we can understand what is going on and fix it
Or, Rich, you could just follow the links in the post which you just blocked, and see those screenshots instantly, but that's not really the point, is it? The point of this is to get me to take this to private e-mail, instead of discussing this out in public, where the discussion is making the company look almost as bad as it has been. Lying about the capabilities of a rightly criticised system, and then blocking the evidence that one has done so, for the sake of manipulating public opinion? That's terrible - not completely unexpected in this industry, any more, but still terrible. So, whether Pearson likes it or not, I'm going to put those screenshots out where everybody can see them, because while this is, perhaps, not the greatest scandal of our age, it remains a moral issue. One simply should not do business in that way.
And sunlight remains the best disinfectant.
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