Migrated manton.org to Micro.blog hosting: manton.org

@manton This is a welcome migration for the m.b hosted platform itself. Will no doubt help the users when the developer of the platform itself is using it. Good on you to do this 👍🏽

@amit Thanks! I already have a new list of feature requests for myself. 🙂

@manton I kinda like that idea of separate feeds. It feels weird to have titled posts and micro stuff show up in the same page. 😕

@justinhudgins Thanks. We may still add that. Although I'm curious whether I'll miss it or not.

@manton That’s great!! 😀

@manton great and right decision! As you mentioned, it’s the best way to get the feeling others have using m.b. exclusively. While browsing your “new” blog -> Archives & Search 😉

@manton Is it extra to have the domain pointing at blah.micro.blog?

@manton 🐶 🌭 chomp chomp! Congratulations on the move.

@manton Good call. You had to walk the walk eventually. Will be interesting to see how experiencing it first hand impacts the development going forward.

@manton I’m looking forward to future updates and thoughts on blogging after switching. 🤗

@manton posts like this www.manton.org/2018/06/3... are difficult to do from iOS. Where you have a few paragraphs, followed by pictures, then a few more paragraphs.

@manton hi, congratulations. I'm glad your platform is going forward. However, as an external observer, it puzzles me that there is no app for Android. Are you planning one in the future?

@manton welcome to the platform! 😉😂

@ryanbooker No, using a custom domain is free. We have a help page here about it.

@adrianizq We've been thinking about better ways to support that. That particular post was done in MarsEdit on my Mac.

@manton I've been beating this drum.... But would LOVE an easy iOS only solution.

@manton not iOS "only". But iOS friendly

@plilfordi There's a third-party Android app in public beta now. I don't have the Android experience to build one myself yet, so we'll be relying on the developer community to get started.

@manton Very interesting to see that word "yet" in there! Have you begun to study Android?

@plilfordi Dialog works verrry well. Get it, you'll like it.

@Ron Maybe "yet" was a little bit of wishful thinking... But you never know. 🙂

@manton I could be wrong, but can’t you do the same with Sunlit?

@justinhudgins Yes, but Sunlit is designed more for groups of photos on different days. I think it could be improved to handle this.

@manton MarsEdit for iOS. Solved! 😉🤣

@Burk @manton Oh absolutely. I am ok to join some petition to convince @danielpunkass to get this done :)

@manton afaik @justinhudgins Sunlit can’t do this for me. It can post a bunch of photos and one paragraph. But not a paragraph, photo(s), another paragraph, some more photos and so on.

@adrianizq If you use Drafts (5.x) and Workflow on iOS there is actually a pretty solid and easy solution available already. @manton

@renem @justinhudgins The trick to approximating this is to add a new photo from a different date, which creates a new section in Sunlit. Then photos can be dragged between them. But it's clunky and not well-suited to this use case.

@manton Awesome job! Great milestone 👏👏

@renem hmm. Do you have a link... I don't know how to do that. I have both those apps though @manton

@adrianizq sure all the kudos goes to @craigmcclellan craigmcclellan.com/2018/07/0...

@renem wow! This is amazing! This is exactly what I was looking for. With drafts/workflow it's super easy. Thank you so much for this. This was one of the reasons I had temporarily moved back to squarespace for my main blog. I think I can go back there MB full time now. @manton

@adrianizq yup! With this Drafts becomes your editor, like the Squarespace app on iOS. I’m still not sure how to delete an uploaded photo via this way @manton

@renem @adrianizq Yeah, I definitely have some extra photos in my account that were used to test the workflow. Glad it’s all helpful!

@craigmcclellan I wonder where exactly they are stored?

@manton thanks for the feedback.

@manton Ah, gotcha. Didn’t quite realize that. I think there’s a lot of potential in Sunlit and I’m really looking forward to its future development. 🤩

@manton doesn't seem like manton.org/now is working, though it still turns up in search for me.

@jeff You're right, I haven't moved over my older stand-alone pages yet. Thanks for noticing! I'll add that one back.

@manton no problem; I was just updating mine and was curious if yours had survived the transition!

@Ron I'm trying it right now.