Posterous editing frustration w/Mike Hall

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The unbelievably awesome Posterous experience encapsulated in four minutes of frustrated clicking. Basically, last night I was fighting with Posterous to make changes to a SCMC meeting announcement. I needed to add a sponsor image but wanted it to retain it's shape and be a clickable link. Posterous wants to load images into it's own format and will reduce them to a tiny, cropped square otherwise. But this session wouldn't even let me remove the image. I would edit, update and the content would be reset. I was working in Chromium and Firefox. Heck, when I open the dashboard in Firefox the post doesn't even appear until I force refresh. Don't watch it all the way to the end. The last 30 seconds or so was me trying to close Screeny but I have too many things in my status bar and it was hidden. :P
The Interviewer

Mike Hall

Interviewer, UGtastic

The Guest

Mike Hall

Blogger / Developer

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Mike Hall Interviewer, UGtastic ▶ Speaking
Hi, welcome to UGtastic. I'm Mike Hall.
Mike Hall Blogger / Developer ▶ Speaking
So I'm working with Posterous right now trying to get this post formatted, and the rich text editor is doing some bizarre things with code blocks and line breaks. Here's how to fix it.