Creating An Article is Hard On Articles Page

Linked In was one of the earliest players to empower even random ranting employees to start blogging. Twitter founder, Evan William's Blogger existed for several years, although it propelled few to blog. Linked In, on the other hand, catapulted regular people to start writing small updates, and eventually to start blogging. 

A few months ago, Linked In team pushed some updates. 'Write an article' button went missing from articles summary page. Here are few problems:
1. Frequent bloggers have no way to write an article from articles summary page. Users have to move to the home page to find 'Write an article' button. FAIL!
2. Clicking on the account name 'Parimala Hariprasad' no longer takes the user to home page. Instead, this action redirects the user to the same page. FAIL!
3. With Linked In logo and Settings icon left, the user clicks on Linked In button with a lot of hope. Hurray! 'Write an article' button appears on home page

Many users have walked away from writing, thanks to this problem.

Does your product have such problems too?