"New post" navigation problems

I found the most confusing, or unintuitive, thing is how to create a new post.

Eventually, I figured out that the following link will create a new post: https://write.as/# Or when logged in at the main page of a blog, the ‘Menu’ in the upper-left corner has as it’s first item ‘write.as’ which if clicked starts a new post. Also I now see that clicking 'write.as in the footer will start a new post. You could also go your Blogs page and there a ‘New Post’ link there. If not logged in, https://write.as starts a new post (that how I figured out that link will create a new post).

But if you’re viewing a blog post, I don’t see any link that starts a new post other than (unintuitively) clicking 'write.as in the footer, or the extra step of returning to the Blogs list to see the ‘New Posts’ link there.

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Thanks, this is good feedback. I agree the navigation can be improved, and that we’re maybe trying to be a little too clever with the “write.as” links.

The goal with having the editor on https://write.as when logged in is so that you only need to type that in to start a new post. But I agree, navigation to this page is missing in many places. We’re going to work on improving this over time.

(Moved this to a new topic since it’s more general user experience feedback that I’d like everyone to be able to discuss in one place.)

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I admit one thing I’ve been confused about is the navigation. I feel like it would be way simpler just to have the upper-left link/icon/whatever be a hover menu that gives all the options, rather than have the upper-left corner functionality keep changing depending on where you are on the site.