So I emailed the Mars Edit help desk with the info needed to assist them in finding my old license key, since it was buried in some folder on some external backup hard drive. You have a popular piece of software that works just fine, and then you update it and these updates breaks the basic, core function of the app as in ‘the primary reason for its existence.’ Who tested this? How could they have missed this basic flaw prior to software implementation? This was just…. I wonder if I can find my old license would I get a discount on an upgrade? (No idea where the license key is…. Great job! I used to use #marsedit a long time ago for all my blogging needs. But according to a WordPress forum, a recent update broke this basic function. Blog offline, upload when done, see it on the blog. “Seriously? The whole point of using the #wordpress desktop app is to avoid having to go online and blog. Continue in an external browser?” I got so mad that I went to Twitter and ranted in a series of Tweets: I got this error message: “Proceed in External Browser? You have one or more plugins that prevent editing content within WordPress Desktop. I drafted of a post for Sober Catholic on my phone using the WP Android app, then afterwards tried to edit it on my Mac. I retained fond memories of Mars Edit but never thought I’d go back to it.īut that all changed yesterday. Not only could you write blogposts, but also administer and manage your blog, check stats and so on. (MarsEdit is Mac-only.) Then WP came out with their own desktop app and that just ‘blew me away’ with its functions. But mostly, I had to abandon the Mac platform as I needed a new computer and could not afford a new or refurbished Mac I went Linux and using WP software was a perfect fit. I kept Mars Edit for a while, then discarded it when WordPress’ own internal blog editor seemed to pass MarsEdit in functions. After I had been logging directly into my Blogspot account for a few years, the idea of using a ‘professional’ piece of software meant that I was now a serious blogger almost as much as moving to my own hosting provider would seem a couple of years later. Years ago when I first started blogging and learned it was going to be a consistent thing in my online life, I downloaded blogging software called Mars Edit.
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