Balky app

The WordPress app for iPhone is handy, but still buggy. One problem is that the screen for selecting a post’s category is blank.

Another glitch is that sometimes the text editing area is truncated.

And I’d assumed that the app would pull a list of tags from my blog, but it doesn’t. Perhaps this is the same bug that affects the categories.

And sometimes after editing a post it shows in the list of posts with a padlock sign and a spinning “activity” wheel for prolonged periods — like 24 hours! I eventually learned that this could be corrected by refreshing the list of posts.

Of course I don’t expect every piece of software to be perfect, but some of these are major usability issues that you would have hoped would have been fixed before launch.

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