It's a Posterous blog, and that's what Posterous blogs do. I agree it's rather dumb. (The giveaway is that annoying-as-hell semi-transparent bar at the bottom.)

Sidenote: Quora appears to have the same problem; I'm guessing it's something capturing click events and calling e.preventDefault() on everything instead of on just left-click events.

What's worse is when your "expand to takeover the entire screen" button looks a lot like a close or X button which as you can imagine would cause some frustration for someone trying to close the image I just enlarged (enlarge again? really?)

See anyone can be a sensationalist Internet douche!

Remember just because you're self-aware and apologize ahead of time doesn't make what you're about to do ... any better or less offensive. I would even argue that it makes it more.

I disagree. He's providing feedback to the designer, and his "douchey" criticism communicates his emotional reaction to the design better than any inoffensive feedback could. The designer would rather be exposed to his unfiltered emotions than read a detached analysis of them.

His feedback is great. The new design, even the so-called 'dense' one, is bland, spread-out and hard to read.

That's the standard lightbox convention for a left-click. The grandparent was talking about a middle-click.

There is an established convention for middle-clicking a lightbox thumbnail (open the larger image in a new tab), which posterous apparently breaks.

Middle click should never ever do fucking anything other than open the link in a new background tab.

Just another instance of my computer working for anyone other than me.

They're right, it is a Post-PC era.

It's not a personal computer, it's anybodys computer handing over control to anyone and everyone and hiding or removing it from me.

I don't have a witty name for the Era yet.