Just released a new 3.0 beta of Micro.blog for iOS. This includes a big change, borrowed from the 2.x versions: Markdown syntax highlighting when writing new posts. We are getting close to release. The only major feature left is WordPress posting support. TestFlight here to follow along.

@manton oh, don’t forget about the timeline sync 🙂 I‘m totally in that camp as well. Also, including highlighted text and the website title in the share sheet 😉 //cc @Miraz @vincent

@manton @vincent I have one request :-) Turn off zoom on the timeline. Thanks!

@otaviocc Can you be more specific?

@vincent sure, here and here

@hutaffe Hmm, except timeline sync... I'd love to add that extra data to the Share sheet, however for some reason it doesn't come through in the data (only the text) – so maybe I am missing something. Was that an option in the past that I missed?

@otaviocc Ah, pinch to zoom?

@vincent and I found this minor problem with the text color in Settings.

@vincent yep :-) 👍👍

@vincent I found another weird issue. If I go to Bookmarks and tap “Show More” it shows several messages that I don’t have bookmarked.

@otaviocc Arghhh, that's not supposed to be in there!

@otaviocc Sorry that setting shouldn't be there. Looks like I committed it to the develop branch by mistake. I'm working on Wordpress posting options and that was the start to make it happen. I committed before with a new component to handle this.

@otaviocc Can you add a GitHub issue for this please?

@vincent good question 🧐 I thought this was working at some point (maybe looong ago), with a preformatted post. The link title was the title of the page and the selected text was put in a blockquote. But maybe I was dreaming, or the iOS API changed? A quick search just found parsing the page with JavaScript in the docs. You’re the expert though 😅✌️

@hutaffe … wait… Apple… documentation? I must be dreaming.

Thanks for pointing me in that direction! Maybe something we should explore to heighten the usefulness of the extension.

If you select text on the webpage, and “share” that text, it will add a Markdown quote to it… but no URL.

@vincent it probably was working years ago and nobody checks the Radars about it being broken since a decade or so 😉

@mikehaynes It should adjust the text size based on the iOS system setting. If we need another option on top of that, will need to wait until later. (Lots of stuff was moved to 3.1.)

@hutaffe You'd think they would pass that data to you, because I get an array of data, but within it is only one object (which is the text and the content type). Maybe I set something up wrong... I know nothing 🤣

@mikehaynes If you can send some examples of how that looks particular on your device, then that helps. Including if you have options set for larger iOS/Android text size.

@manton Still. Waiting. Patiently. 😆

@manton mastodon posting is there already?

@manton it does for timeline but just sent feedback in TestFlight

New posts have very small text Replies have slightly bigger text

Timeline is based on iOS settings

(Not sure if replies have all the markdown stuff either yet?)

@vincent it happens :D :D I saw Manton's post saying Wordpress is the last piece missing for 3.0 :-) Thanks!

@vincent sure, I'll do that :-) 👍

@birming Highlights will come in the 3.1 update. It's on the list.

@adamprocter We're using the new "native" Text input for the post screen, that includes syntax highlighting. Replies still uses the normal one, which has a different font size. We'll tweak as we progress. Thanks for the feedback!

@otaviocc Yeah, just working on Wordpress and Micropub (and IndieAuth). And those options are the gateway for that 😋

@vincent the app looks awesome. I loved the Uploads section!

@vincent ah ha just seen this thanks.

@adamprocter ✌️

@eshwarnag It doesn't directly post to Mastodon from the app, but instead the Micro.blog backend can copy any post to Mastodon via the cross-posting settings.

@manton how are the Markdown shortcuts supposed to work? After pressing one, should the insertion point get moved between the two asterisks or underscores? Or, do I need to manually move it?

@kevrodg Right now the buttons assume you've selected the text you want to make bold or italic, and then it will just wrap the text. We need to adjust this for when text isn't selected.

@manton If I don't have any text selected, when I press the double asterisk button the app adds four asterisks to the body of my post. Is it a wanted behaviour?

Personally it seemed more correct to insert only two asterisks, write the text I want to render in bold, and then press the "**" button again to close the tag.

This is a screenshot I took from version 3.0 (310):

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@cesco I agree, this is something we need to update.