Granite spires, Wheeler Crest. cliffordbeshers.micro.blog

@cliffordbeshers I’m kinda disappointed that I have to click through to see these, because the image is nano-sized. I know it will be worth it, because the micro-sized versions have always been. Just lazy.

@jeremycherfas I don’t care for that either, but I don’t know how to get the larger image with a long-form post. Maybe I should look at the docs again.

@cliffordbeshers A superb photo.

@cliffordbeshers beautiful photograph and nice to couple with a story as others have pointed out

@mbkriegh @ayjay Thank you. Wheeler Crest does have its moments.

@jeremycherfas Completely agree. If @manton let me make one change to Micro.blog, it would be to increase the size of those novelty sized “previews” for long posts.

@gregmoore @jeremycherfas @cliffordbeshers Maybe should be a preference. It's designed to be almost like mini emoji for longer posts, just so people have a hint that there are photos in the post and how many. If they're larger, maybe need to be on a new line.

@manton @gregmoore @cliffordbeshers At least one (first one?) photo should be shown on the timeline (like a Featured photo or Twitter Card). At least that may help long-form posts stand out a bit more.

@cliffordbeshers This is still an improvement over how it was. Earlier it showed the thumbnails only if the photos were at the end of the post and not within the body

@manton I know this is a dramatic way of putting it but that formatting makes second class citizens of long posts here. I almost never post more than one photo with a sub-280 character description because the UI penalizes it so much.

@gregmoore I wonder if it would help to have a quick preview / reader inside the timeline, avoiding the overhead of a click away. I don’t want the timeline to be a lot of truncated text summaries, but I hear the feedback and think we can do more.

@manton Totally agree with you on the truncated text. I also don’t complain without a suggestion to offer: With the Timeline’s current 648px container, you could keep the headline and link as-is but move the image previews below them and render up to three at a larger size of 200x200px with a 16px margin between them. Visual example

@gregmoore Thanks for the examples!

@gregmoore I’m also one of those people who wants some sort of a better rendering of long-form posts. Currently the UI helps photos get better “visibility”, for the lack of a better word.

@moonmehta @gregmoore @manton I seldomly open posts with just a line and a link (and thumbnail). Featured image and excerpt would be nice.

@manton seems a good time to raise the idea of offering some kind of Wordpress equivalent to ‘excerpt’ in the time line … anything in excerpt … character count allowing - is displayed on the time line .. so that people get a feel for the post other than the headline.

@pimoore already has excerpt on Hitchens .. just needs to be revealed on the timeline.

@JohnPhilpin @manton Problem is my solution is a bit hacky, using HTML comments with an “excerpt” tag to avoid shortcodes. It works, but it ain’t pretty. 😂

@JohnPhilpin summaries are built into Hugo. I don't believe they can have photos though, for example.

@pimoore with exposed front matter, we could use Hugo's built in {{ .Summary }}

@jsonbecker Having access to the (customizable?) frontmatter would be great, but I’m not sure if anything has changed with the status of this since it was last discussed. // @manton

@pimoore it has not, but I bring it up when it’s a good solution whenever @manton is lurking in a conversation because I’m convinced it’s inevitable once we give him enough reasons.

@jsonbecker @pimoore Feel free to keep bugging me about this. 🙂

@jsonbecker I’m good with no photos.

@pimoore key point …it works. Sadly not on the timeline .. which is where we really need it 🤨

// @manton