I obviously don't know about your other software, or your expectations of it ;)

But you clearly (I think) had doubts about how this worked, and we have guides, FAQs, and simply, people who would have been happy to directly answer that.

If I haven't said so already, using Pump via the web interface gives you a very, very limited view of what it is and what it can do, compared to the desktop clients.

BTW, you can check if your post is public by trying to load it while not logged in.