@hartlco @vincent @manton Now that I have an abundance of micro.blog clients on my phone, I really need a TweetMarker-like solution on MicroBlog.

Anyone here know someone who could build something like that? 🤞

@stevesnider @hartlco @vincent 🙂 I think we need to roll out an API that can be used in third-party apps first and later the official app, when it is updated to remember the timeline position.

@vincent Resist building a server API for this yourself. I did that for Twitter and do not recommend it. 🙂

@vincent Agree with @manton. At the very least, make the tip jar first! I know not everything should be about money but if you are making a server API then you should be bloody well paid for it.

@vincent a big reason I've leaned towards Icro so far has been that it has maintained my timeline position. Gluon is amazing by the way.

@vincent I can understand that. I used to be a Twitter completionist, but have long since given that up. On Micro.blog I can still keep up (easily) just based on the number of people and the volume of posts, so I try to read them all when I can.

@simonwoods @vincent Just to underscore this... Don't build a server API because it will fragment the API, making it harder to build apps. For Gluon-only timeline sync now, there's iCloud.

@vincent @manton Wow, I never would have thought of that -- the things I learn everyday! I now entirely agree with Manton.

@vincent I use and prefer gluon when I'm in and out of mb. But Icro seems able to backfill more when I've been away for a day. I would really love a client agnostic API so I can bounce between clients :)

@vincent Yep. So we also need @manton to support more posts in the backfill when he does the timeline position API, right? :)

@jpayne @vincent That "40 posts" sounds familiar but it must be a bug. It is supposed to support paging back through at least a few days worth of posts.

@stevesnider This is also why I generally use Icro. It does a good job of position holding.

@manton @hartlco Yup. Happens to me too on Gluon. Think I mentioned it to @vincent last week. It would help to have mb backfill more than 40 posts.

@manton that sounds promising :)