@maique @vincent If it helps, what the Micro.blog iOS/macOS apps do is convert the Markdown to HTML, then parse the HTML and extract just the text, so that the count matches what the user sees. The downside is it's not a Twitter-compatible count.

@vincent Sometimes emojis are just ssoooooo expressive! 😄 // @maique

@maique Ha! For the last week or so I’ve disabled automatic cross-posting from Micro.blog to Twitter and it’s really nice. One less thing to think about when writing.

@maique That’s great! I think I just needed a little break from other social networks. But the cross-posting is a built-in feature for a reason. Glad it’s helpful to folks.

@vincent so, I have a good friend who really dislikes the plain text/markdown editing experience with Micro.blog. I think something that could be a differentiator that would be worth considering is some form of great rich text/block editing experience, even if that's a "one way" (as in, sorry about drafts or existing posts, once they're made, I have to convert to HTML and that's what you'll see).

@manton I always cross post to twitter and I never think about Twitter

// @mai

@JohnPhilpin 👍

@vincent my thinking is that Tumblr does this very well. So maybe the trick is basic rich text with some post-types that are actually just HTML templates essentially. Tumblr then also has Markdown for the nerds.

@vincent as it's a separate app, would you consider timeline position syncing (via iCloud) until @manton adds API support?

@vincent I had to ask :)

@vincent native code! (non-electron)

@Gabz 👍🏽

@vincent brilliant

@vincent My top 3 Gluon requests: 3. Double-tap to zoom a photo in the full-screen view 2. Timeline position syncing 1. Don't burn yourself out developing features for us 🙂