Paper Theme Now Supports Full Posts on Homepage: mb.amitgawande.com

@amit This looks really nice.

@amit Oh, this looks nice! I may have to redo my site.

@amit Looks great. In your original design, it would help to add some affordance to indicate a longer post. The ellipsis (…) are more subtle than one would expect.

@manton Thank you, Manton. It’s been pending for some time now 👍🏽

@shep Thank you! I am glad you liked it 👍🏽

@pratik Interesting. I had tried a few options – closest being […Read More]. I felt it was an unnecessary text.

@amit And [Read More] is not localized, (can it be(?)). I think […] is used some places on the net to expand/read more.

@amit This is great, I’ve enabled it for my site 👏️ Quick question, you have a “discuss’ link at the bottom of your posts, is that another plugin? I tried to find it but didn’t turn up anything

@rknightuk That’s @sod’s excellent Conversation on Micro.blog plugin. It’s been an excellent addition to our blogs.

@pratik Thank you, very useful!

@amit very nice!

@paulopinto Interesting. I will keep that, in mind, for the next upgrades – for now, if you want, you can add this to your custom css. It should get what you want.

.logo {
	background-image: url(https://micro.blog/paulopinto/avatar.jpg);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-size: 25px 25px;
	background-position-y: 2.2rem;
	padding-left: 4rem;
}

@rknightuk That’s the wonderful plug-in Conversation on Micro.blog by @sod. The theme supports it natively. Just install and configure it and you should be good to go.

@Gaby Nice, glad you liked it. Regarding On this day, what do you mean by play nice? Basically come pre-installed or some styling issue? I would glad to support it. Thought I myself have it running.

@amit I am not sure, or don’t remmeber the reason why On This Day does not work with newer themes, maybe @manton can explain it better.

@Gaby @amit I’m confused by this too. On This Day should work with any blog that has an archive page.

@Gaby I had no idea that the plugin is broken. With the way it works, there’s no way to know. So I didn’t. Would be glad to fix if I can. // @manton

@amit @manton @gaby Jonathan recently updated Python so that may be the issue. It works fine on my blog.

@pratik @Gaby @manton Where it works, the call to /posts returns matching posts (basically those with same date). For others, it results a blank list. Is the archive index.json any different for these themes?

@amit Out of curiously, which file controls the index page for this theme?

@amit I installed the upgraded theme and it’s great - small issue I noticed my post separator is styled differently than on your example blog. I’m just getting a hard line, not the dots.

@bdonnelly I am seeing the separator correctly on your blog - four dots. May be its a cache issue, can you try hard reload or a different browser?

@skoobz you mean the homepage? That would be /_default/list.html.

@amit That’s what I meant. Thank you.

@amit Ah, you’re right. Thanks!

@amit I’m trying opposite. Find a theme which stops Articles short! Does the basic Paper do that then?

@warner Yes, Paper displays the truncated summary by default on the homepage - you can see that on my homepage

@amit Nice: pretty much as good as you can ask for in current M.b without Custom Home Page.

I do think there needs to be more focus on og:image for sharing and Article previewing for it to be future-ready
(related note: you’re Wordle image also doesn’t display well on home-page)

@amit @manton Still thinking about this. I am sure this is something I could possibly figure out. By checking the theme files and see what different, I pressume?

@Gaby @manton I tried to the other day. But i didn’t continue on the path. Am sure somethings changed with newer themes - the response json is empty.

@amit @manton I am not very savvy when it comes to this. My first thought was to open the templates of a theme I know it works and compaare it with Paper’s and, visually, I couldn not spot anything different but again I know very little and mayne that was not the right approach

@Gaby I have found the issue, fix coming in next upgrade. // @manton

@Gaby An upgrade with the fix should be available now. Let me know if you see any issues.

@amit THANK YOU!!! Glad to have “On this Day” back. No issues so far. Thank you Again,

@amit Hi, just a quick question: what is this symbol after the date on Paper theme: ⌘ ? Can it be removed? Thanks.

@mdalves It’s just to indicate it’s the link to the individual post. I am afraid there is no easy way to remove it. If you are ok to modify a file, I can guide you.

@amit No problem, I’ll let it there. Thanks.