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I stopped using MarsEdit a few months ago and instead started to post my Weblog entries using the Wordpress backend (with the help of Steve Smith’s Tiger Design). Rather than just post another link to the announcement of Daniel’s acquisition of the tool, here’s a few reasons I stopped using it. Hopefully Daniel can put them in the back of his mind for future enhancements. :)

• The UI feels outdated. Drawers, the Jaguar-era icons, etc. The drawers seem like a waste of space (especially the Weblog listing one).
• Uploading images isn’t nearly as intuitive as dragging it onto my Transmit droplets. I’d love to be able to do it all in MarsEdit easily.
• Adding keywords is more difficult than it should be. I wish there was a keyword editor below the title a la Yojimbo rather than in a separate tab.
• Editing trackbacks, enclosures, and the date is a pain since I can only do it via the menu.

And finally, for the love of god, Daniel, please don’t spend time writing a WYSIWYG view for writing posts. When ecto implemented that, I ditched it for MarsEdit: the rest of the app suffered I think.

Here’s looking forward to the new breath of life.