I've been playing with BlogHatter for a few days now and thought to give some feedback here.
By and large the program works as advertised. It makes it easier and speeds up the process of setting semi-automated blogs. Yesterday I spend a bit more than an hour and in the end had a blog with about 40 posts scheduled in WP for posting. So I'm a fairly satisfied customer with no major complaints.
There are some issues on the interface and usability side that make me to think the program is not really ready for primetime yet. Some examples:
- When you are queuing the program to do something for the posts you are working on (get images for example) it tends to freeze and become responsive until the current operation is complete. During these times the progress indicator is stuck in the middle of the screen and on top of other windows.
- I've had the program crash for a few times during the above mentioned operations. Luckily it saves progress often so I can just pick up where I left.
- The interface usability leaves something to be desired. For example commong things like CTRL-clicking to select multiple posts doesn't work. This means you can't select multiple posts and change their categories, as an example. I sometimes experience that the program doesn't respond to mouse-clicks. For example, I often have to click 2 to 3 times to move to another post.
None of these issues are major problems. They just make using the program somewhat annoying, and force you to adapt the way you work to the peculiarities of the program.
If you can live with minor annoyances like those, I think the program is a great investment. Especially if you need to set up a lot of semi-automated blogs for linking purposes.