A quick random catch for you @manton: if 'a' + 'n' + 'd' amounts to three characters; then, '&' amounts to five. This being the UI, I have zero confidence in my ability to report actual variable values and my Unicode is fuzzy enough for me to have overlooked something.
Raise your hand if you're reading this on the Micro.blog timeline and you love adorable dog pics (post one of a three post exchange, I will check back tomorrow).
.@manton, thoughts on moving towards a muted, autoplay model for videos in the timeline… or are you imagining Micro.blog users with a higher rate of play presses (cause I'm imagining a bunch of large darkish gray rectangles with light, tipped over triangles flying off scrolled screens)?
Someone show me a list of the Micro.blog supported emoji tags. Should I find myself bored enough, I may construct a proof of why the MB emoji model is a flawed, limiting system.
Cc @manton
Despite my best efforts at ensuring proper textual context, I still managed to yank the benefit of the doubt too early yesterday. My list of MB mutes is back down to zero. Apologies for the super low key and overly clever snark.
If UR reading this on the Micro.blog timeline, and you have, at some point, found yourself muting a Micro.blog account, holler back. My pristine (allbeit short) list of interactions took on a semisweet turd yesterday… I'm curious where the social media water marks are for y'all power socializers.
Totally expect to mute an account out of existence for the first time on Micro.blog later day. Fingers crossed we have a willing intellect capable of constructing a logical frame around a particular bit of broad generalization that wants to be clever but reduces to nought but an insult. *breathing*
From 9 MB accounts to 18, here's a screencast of the folks I've nabbed to date
Holler if you're reading this on the MB timeline and you aren't one of the nine folks I'm following.
The ineffective reach is unfortunate; otherwise, after 3+ years of cross-posting out of Micro.blog, I most certainly would have given y'all an open source iOS app that monitors your MB feed for new posts, automatically cross-posting highly configurable platform specific adaptations of your content.
Not sure who borked who when it comes to Twitter blowing image and preview card display for Micro.blog cross-posts. I'm holding on to all my fucks, anywho. It turns out that when a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is around to hear, it really doesn't make a sound.
Feels like I oughta update my cards plugin to scrape and forward the image provided by the first included card in posts that include one or more preview cards but don't include any images of their own to populate metadata for their own card.
If you're reading this on a Micro.blog timeline, and you follow this account, let me know. I want to follow you back (I still haven't deduced how to achieve my law of exclusively mutual on the MB platform). @odd , I've already got ya. @johnphilpin, @pratik… holler if ya dropped.
Here's another Micro.blog timeline feeler to see if anyone is even reading these there. You only get counted when you reply … what you feel like saying is irrelevant in this particular scenario. Here's a lure:
What you get in the Micro.blog Timeline versus what you get if you decide to load my post or you're on a platform targeted for cross-posts (Mastodon probably still shitting the preview card bed; but, the others oughta be similar to this card in Apple Messages):
So, @manton, search and replace for vertical cross >}} hung on me when I tried it out after you brought it to my attention. This morning I took another stab at it starting with horizontal cross >}}. This time the operation succeeded so I tried vertical cross >}} again. It's hanging. In both cases the replacement is >}}. The only difference that stands out is the post total. I don't believe the successful operation was paged while the hanging operation previews latest 50. It could be a post content issue though as the horizontal cards are mostly simple song link posts.
Our posts are stored on the server in their markdown format, right @manton? What I've been missing in the post editing is multi-file find and replace. Were you to give us a nifty way to download and upload our native post content, making such edits would become trivial.
Note to self: if I ever roll my own Micro.blog client, include an option to register a regular expression for a Hugo Shortcode that extracts the anticipated textual footprint for a more accurate character count within the post editor.
cc @manton
Hey @manton, is there a correct way to attach a category when creating a post via the micropub API? This doesn't seem to work. Perhaps I need to use 'category[]' and/or 'music'?
A solid use case for the introduction of a cross post API for @manton's parser would be that last one. You could configure the output to only have Bonnie's Twitter handle in the twitter post, using her name (or appropriate handle) for the actual blog and/or cross post targets.
A future feature for you @manton: global regex find and replace for the content Markdown files so I can remove the cross parameters from my card shortcode invocations for all the pages that have already been cross posted (thereby embedding the HTML directly in the Hugo output rather than relying on Javascript to transform the element upon page load (which it does to ensure a regular link is cross posted (from which the target platform can generate its own preview card))).
Were I rolling my own cross-poster, @manton, it would also handle posting replies to a previous post for API's that supported it. In this way, I could tack on siloed additional thoughts instead of only sticking those on Twitter.
Bee tee dubs, @manton, were you to add a view to Micro.blog's Posts interface constructed with mass selection in mind (perhaps a list where the posts are displayed in a similar manner to the 70 characterish lead text generated for the timeline), I would totally be able to retroactively apply new tags to improve the organization and accessibility of my site tenfold. As it stands, I rarely have the patience to wait for the list to load when I need to make an edit and the list includes a post with 5K words and 20 or so media assets. No way am I gonna sort through 2K posts to apply new tags.
Moving forward, the signed art within posts oughta be tappable for the purpose of loading a lightbox at full resolution. Gave myself a Hugo shortcode that fetches the high resolution image off of GitHub as a resource to create thumbnail and full resolution copies of the image via the image processing API.
What do you suppose these are about @manton? They are the harmless errors I have mentioned that are generated by my conversation plugin, now exposed by the improvements to logging.
