I’ve started keeping a list of things that I’d personally like to see improved at Micro.blog. It’s not to take a shot at @manton about issues. It’s a utility for me to keep track of things I want, and to revel in crossing items off when they get implemented — as they often do. I wish cause I care! 😘
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I’ll post updates to this thread when I add new chunks to the list. Here’s the initial list:
A truly great list of suggestions! I found myself nodding along as I read.
Great! I’ve reported on some of those. I hope most of those are addressed within the (above equator) winter.❄️
@dvdlite Ooh good one. I was just thinking earlier this week about how I miss Twitter lists for looking in on certain topics or groups of people without having their posts always in my timeline.
Here is my wish list. I should revisit it, though.
I think your pie in the sky idea is substantially easier to implement than several of your others!
Great list, thank you!
@pratik I remember! I browsed through it a bit last night and linked it my description.
@numericcitizen Missed the link?
@pratik I remember! I browsed through it a bit last night and linked it my description.
@jsonbecker I’m a dreamer, not a developer! 😉
@manton 🙌
@jsonbecker Blot-like sync is something I’ve thought a lot about too. Question: would it be useful as a read-only folder you could mount on your Mac, or is editing also critical to the feature?
yes, here you go: numericcitizen.me/whats-nex…
@manton @jsonbecker Editing would be my primary goal. The ability to publish and edit from any text editor, across devices, is something I appreciate with Blot. It makes the “source-of-truth” my own files, which is powerful when I can use shortcuts and other apps to act upon those files in bulk. Honestly, after using Blot, having to go to a web dashboard to make edits feels a bit outdated.
That said, if read-only is a stepping stone to editing, I’d take it!
By the way, that invisible character problem I mentioned yesterday for linking usernames was my bug. Will be fixed shortly.
@manton Awesome! I see it mentioned from @news, thank you. Not sure if you were referencing the suggested username wish above, but this is actually what I’m describing there:
Nope, that’s a different issue. I do understand that and will be working on it.
@manton 🙏 🫶
@manton @jsonbecker @pratik @numericcitizen I’m enjoying this thread. It feels to me like the community coming together in support of Micro.blog.
@crossingthethreshold 🧡
I’m super late to the party, so maybe someone mentioned it, but yeah, it’d be nice to see threaded convos with only the top of the convo show up in the timeline (unless of course someone you follow joined in). Something like that at least. 😆
@manton that’s definitely the hardest part – two-way sync is much harder not through an API. Knowing what file has changed… it’s now a file sync method versus API-based method.
For me, this is really about “I want MarsEdit to come to iOS finally.” then problem solved. There’s a reason Ulysses and iAWriter just post out versus being full management systems.
@jsonbecker @manton I’d probably settle for MarsEdit for iOS.
@manton I would love to just create a txt or md file and throw it in a folder, and it’s published.
The one item I am dying for is an easy one click (or checkbox) solution that would separate microposts from long form posts and let you choose which is displayed on the homepage.
@Plebone I’ve been contemplating how to build that for myself. It’s something I would want to have a solution for if I were to bring all of HeyDingus over.
@pratik Yeah, man! The magic of the
<details>element. 🪄@help It didn’t like the escaped html here in the reply. Editing the reply and “updating” it with no changes fixed it.
MarsEdit for iOS? – Did I miss something?
@thosch No, just dreaming
Let’s dream together. 🙂 And I dream of an MarsEdit-Like editor for Linux…
Do you know IA-Writer? It’s a md-capable editor for iOS/iPadOS/macOS with many features. IA Writer has a function to send drafts to micro.blog.
@thosch I do! It’s been my favorite text editor on Mac for, jeeze, a decade now. If only it could do two-way sync like MarsEdit…
Yes, that’s missing.
As discussed in the thread about your wishlist (esp. synced folder) this seems to be complex.
What are your use cases for (bulk) editing posted posts?
@thosch Updating links, mostly. But also if I were to change blog hosts, I just feel better about having everything as my own markdown files.
Already getting some things checked off my Micro.blog wishlist! 👏
But, naturally, there’s new stuff on it too. 😉
@pratik It’s not, but should be! I only see it on Micro.blog, and I use Safari. Do you use Grammarly? I’ve wondered if that’s what’s interfering.
@pratik It’s not, but should be! I only see it on Micro.blog, and I use Safari. Do you use Grammarly? I’ve wondered if that’s what’s interfering.
@pratik It’s not, but should be! I only see it on Micro.blog, and I use Safari. Do you use Grammarly? I’ve wondered if that’s what’s interfering.
@pratik When I’m back at my Mac next week, I’m going to experiment with turning Grammarly off and seeing if it improves.
@pratik When I’m back at my Mac next week, I’m going to experiment with turning Grammarly off and seeing if it improves.
@pratik When I’m back at my Mac next week, I’m going to experiment with turning Grammarly off and seeing if it improves.
@help I think some wires are getting crossed here. I don’t have a separate Mastodon account but my replies to Mastodon users appear to be getting duplicated with my ActivityPub address.
@help Potentially because these users do have both M.b and Mastodon accounts?
One final wish granted in 2024 🥳
And two more added to kick off 2025 😅
the “html” thing always confused me. I can’t quite wrap my head around caring (unless migrating from a blog without it and wanting to keep the old URLs).
@jsonbecker For me, it’s equal parts about the migration aspect, about aesthetics, and about simplicity (why do posts need it, but pages don’t?). Plus, I type out my own URLs a surprising amount, and don’t care for the extra 5 characters.
@DaveyCraney Yep that’s right Davey; the initial best experience is for new, and newer, blogs. Not that you shouldn’t jump into the coal mine first, Jarrod. 👀
@SimonWoods @DaveyCraney I haven’t enabled it yet, no. Manton indicated he’d work on better compatibility for existing blogs so that it doesn’t break links and I’m keeping my fingers crossed for that.