🔗 On 10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads
‘Only’ ten? But I get it. I really get it. In the same boat - just with more years.
@MitchWagner yeah … historically I switch urls, topics and tech .. though micro blog seems to be holding me … and over time have been moving everything into this space .. which I bought in 1999.
@JohnPhilpin Micro.blog might not be it for me in the long term. @manton seems to like to keep other platforms at arm’s length. Cross-posting and ActivityPub support are great but I want even more.
@MitchWagner for me I find there’s a balance and often think if only it could .. like xyz .. but over on xyz it doesn’t do abc.
If I had one single mb issue .. would be around constant expansion of effort and dev into functionality that isn’t core .. whilst at core there are reported issues and enhancements that remain unexplored.
@JohnPhilpin 100% to both your points. I love Micro.blog’s graceful support for both titled and untitled posts and I have come to loathe the character limits on Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads. I have ideas for how MB could better integrate with those services but they’d be nontrivial to implement and @manton has indicated he’s not interested — which decision I respect but is frustrating.
And yes to “constant expansion of effort and dev into functionality that isn’t core .. whilst at core there are reported issues and enhancements that remain unexplored.” I seem to find bugs in Micro.blog on a weekly basis. Meanwhile, notes, bookshelves, movies/TV and long-form videos are of little to no interest to me.
I stay here because MB seems to come closest to what I’m looking for in a blogging platform, while still not coming close enough.