The latest update to Micro Social adds location check-ins for Micro.blog. Very interesting! There’s so much potential here that we haven’t had time to follow through on, so great to see another app pick up the slack.

@manton had no idea check-ins were a thing here

@manton I remember I was playing with it with the foss alternative to Swarm (forget the name) and asked about it in the forms – does this means we can add location with the official iOS app and I missed it somehow?

@jtr Nope, you didn’t miss it. We have location support in the API but no actual UI for setting it yet! Until Micro Social.

@rscottjones They sort of haven’t been a thing until now. The plumbing is there but it has required custom apps and themes.

@manton glad it has it! Checking in has been this itch I wanted to scratch for a while, is this hard to implement in the official app? It’s good to have options though.

@jtr Not hard exactly, just I always thought we would build something for this outside of the main app. I’ll have to revisit it now that there is some active support for locations.

@manton ah, makes sense when you explain it this way. Wonder if this will become big (I hope so!)