One of the reasons I didn’t get onboard the Micro.blog hype train for Literal is that I can’t find any sign of how they make money, what their goals and intentions are, and what history their developers have with regard to previous work.
And all good - I am just hoping that the core work can be put into simplifying things for the poets ( as @dave ) calls them around styling, plugins, web mentions etc - that is the core stuff that allows you to really expand the application.
Right now you have to really understand the tech to implement this stuff and when you go into the backend it sometimes raises more questions for me ( that I don’t need answers to ) …
Eg I want to switch on @pimoore ‘s Tufte design - all good - done - but only because I know that not all new designs are in design - some are in plugins. And now I have done it there’s a whole world to explore around Hugo and shortcodes - not for the light hearted!
Eg the Twitter card plugin by @moondeer - very cool - I think - too scared - I’ve got the instructions.
Eg webmentions still are not easy to introduce - again I’ve got the instructions - Thankyou @amit but need time to work it …
Not many people are going to spend time working out how to do all that - and ‘all that’ is a lot - if the umbrella message of Micro Blog is ‘simplicity for the ‘common man’’ to rif on Copland.
Until then, I suspect that the people that come and stay will be a fraction of the possible people that could join and utilize this very neat system. Then of course - I don’t know what your aspirations are … the potential market I can see might not be aligned with you vision.
// @odd