Usability Rant: Blogger's "accidental" publishing...

Yarg. For anyone who just saw a post come through which was just a title and no content, my bad! But my fault? I don't think so. Blogger, I love ya, but you've got some problems. There's some combination of keys that can be pressed - I don't even know what it is - that will instantly publish a post. And this combination is just too easy to accidentally trigger while typing - a simple slip or flub of the keys and there goes an incomplete post, irrevocably distributed to RSS subscriptions and Facebook feeds. Is this a usable design? I don't think so - compare how many times you need to (1) post something so quickly that a key combo does it in one step, versus (2) you want to read over and double-check a post before sending it out. I contend that #2 is faaaar more frequent! So Blogger, how about removing the hotkey, and even adding an extra "Are you sure?" click? I, and many other blog writers, would be much obliged!

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