With great platform power comes great reader responsibility: birming.com

@dhester Good to hear I’m not alone 😊 Thanks!

@birming couldn’t you change the site header so it only exposed the full posts feed? That way it will be the default and people won’t have to do anything.

@birming oh I didn’t know that, sorry.

@birming felt like you were talking about my blog 🤣. Also: great twilight photo!

@writingslowly Haha 😅 Honestly, when I look at your blog, I really like the mix. Maybe I’m being too hard on myself. Thanks, glad you like the photo.

@bstn I think @gregmorris is doing a great job with this with the Micro.social app.

@birming @manton Any chance that titles for short posts will come to RSS?

@birming Not sure I understand… You can add titles for short posts now by editing a post or showing the title field for a new post (under “…” on the web, or the gear settings menu on mobile). Also, what feed reader is showing “untitled”? That is a bug in the reader. Feedbin, NetNewsWire, and others properly show short posts.

@manton I was thinking that if I publish a short post without a titles, like a finished book, the first characters could be used to provide a title. Example: ”Finished reading: Be Useful by Arnold…” for a better reading experience

I’m currently using Mire. Maybe that’s the problem 😊 Gonna check out something else. Thanks!

@birming I see. Yeah, the problem is that adding a title often creates a worse experience for feed readers that understand blank titles already. It is possible to edit your blog’s RSS feed to always include a title, but to be honest I don’t recommend it.

@manton Ah, I see. Thank you very much for explaining.