@cheesemaker @manton I sure wish I could have gotten the @jb handle, but John Blanchard grabbed it back in 2017. 😅 (Although, it doesn’t look like he’s used it since then. Funnily enough, his only post is about snagging the username! 🤪)

@manton Oh nice! Honestly, I forgot about Sunlit and didn’t know it had that UI.

@gruber I’ve got a Text Replacement set for xac that inserts “Ask ChatGPT:” for that exact purpose.

@josh_____d Looking forward to this! Btw, I super dig your blog’s theme, especially the mobile menu button that drops down the nav to show more. Is that all custom?

@combatdavey Right? Support replies from the developer have been kind of flakey over the years, but the service has been rock-solid.

@combatdavey Blot.im. It’s a blog built out of text files and photos in a Dropbox (or Google Drive, or GitHub) folder on your computer.

@maique Good news!

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@jsonbecker Scary, scary stuff.

@merlinmann Howdy! 👋 And welcome!

@SimonWoods 🤮

@amerpie I feel this. Or I do have that exotic spice… but it expired three years ago when I last used it for an obscure recipe. 🙄

@pratik Fair enough! For clarity, I’m praising the singular tag method. Better additional tagging would be nice IMO, but not at the expense of a default reply-all.

@jsonbecker Yup yup!

@pratik That’s why I wish for better UI for adding them. Yes, it’s easy to delete, but the default is for them being left in and I don’t see many people deviating from that default.

@manton It’s one of the few remaining friction points that keeps me on Blot for my long posts. I have the luxury of frontmatter metadata there, like a summary or “quip” as I call it, that I can include in the RSS feed that feeds into the Micro.blog timeline. Sometimes I use the quip field, sometimes I don’t. But I appreciate the flexibility.

@jsonbecker It doesn’t happen often to me, but I feel secondhand embarrassment and frustration for others when I see them along for a ride that no longer concerns, or likely interests, them. I see being judicious about who/how you tag people as a commonly disregarded courtesy.

@jarrod (But I’d still appreciate an easier way to manually tag others already in the thread.)

@jsonbecker @manton Adding my +1 here. 🙂

@parkerortolani Looks like it’s still using the micro.blog subdomain. Here’s how to hook up your custom domain if you haven’t seen it already. 🙂 Get those posts at URLs you control!

@tylerknowsnothing Cool page! I like all the covers!

@tylerknowsnothing 👀 Got a link?

@manton That’s a fair point. I guess I was thinking that maybe the M.b timeline gets the fast treatment, but anything external (that may not pick up on edits) gets a few minutes of delay. But if they’re all based on the one feed then that wouldn’t work so well.

@jarrod cc: @manton with so many feeds building off the one in Mb, this would be appreciated.

@maique Oooh that would actually be super handy.

@maique Oooh that would actually be super handy.

@amerpie That looks so very tasty