@todor it's not just the bloat it's allocation of resources.
MicroBlog is a tight team. if you look at a company like (say) Literal they have at least three team members according to their about page - and ‘all’ they do is ‘bookshelves’.
So MicroBlog is never going to compete in a function race. Nor should they.
Manton has interests that he wants to support on the core platform - hence photographs and books - but not games or movies (yet). So the platform will never have everything and the ‘native’ apps are easy to use - but not fighting to be ‘best of breed’.
This is why my personal vote would be to build a rigorous, easy to access and use infrastructure that would allow any account to extend their site to anything of personal interest. So you find your game site of choice and MicroBlog makes it real easy to serve the elements you want into your site, while I could integrate a much richer experience through my literal account . Etc. Etc.
Rather than spending time extending the core service with more apps and services, here's a couple of possibilities;
- Make implementation of WebMentions just so easy - that - well - why wouldn’t you?
- Offer a way to easily publish Obsidian ( and Notion and Roam? ) pages to your blog.
The first should be part of the core platform - the second part of the 'pro' extensions that sit side by side with 'newsletter' and 'podcasts' which are another two examples of MicroBlog solutions that are great because they are built in - but neither of which can truly compete with the companies that focus on that kind of functionality - which is why I use Substack for newsletters and Simplecast for podcasts
Make sense?
Of course - I am well aware that I don’t get a vote - this is not a cooperative 😉
I am also aware of the rich plugins that are emerging - some of which I use