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More Radio thinking:
I've turned on the preference that gives me three buttons to "save" my articles that I write here, "Post", "Publish", and "Post & Publish". I don't thing that "Post" and "Publish" are very good terms for what seems to be happening when I write something here in Radio, and I don't know why I have three buttons.
"Post" seems to save the article locally, but not upload it to the "live" public Weblog. "Post & Publish" actually makes the story live.
OK, I understand that (mostly from fiddling around testing the two). I don't think they are very good names for what they actually do; "Save" and "Make Live" might be better.
But what does the "Post & Publish" button do that the "Publish" button does not? If I just choose publish, say, on this story, where I Posted earlier, will it publish the earlier version, or the one I'm writing now? If the earlier version, why would it do that? Will I lose all my changes?
The answer, as it turns out, is yes (thankfully, I copied the full story to the clipboard). So, what good is the Publish button, then? What exactly would I use it for?
I would suggest that there are three things people might want to do while creating a story:
- Save their work-in-progress (this is sort of what Post does)
- Make their finished story public (this is sort of what Post & Publish does)
- Revert their currently modified version of a story back to a previously saved version (Publish can sort of do this, but has the side effect of making the story public).
The current buttons are labeled with confusing terms, and don't do useful things, and only useful things.
IMHO. ;-)
3:30:13 PM 
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