As you can see we revamped the UI this evening. Hopefully you'll find this nicer to look at... There is only one functional change. The "Compose an Article" "feature" is gone. You simply click "Post." If you don't include a URL it will do the appropriate stuff. We've also opened up access to the "activity" meter. We've had that for a while but only admins could see it. The UI change opens up a bunch of screen real estate for us, which we plan to make use of soon... stay tuned...