Rounding up to 300 characters manton.org

@manton can you explain a little more about the idea of "embed" and quoting? Does this mean, generally, if I add a block quote, that post has a 600 character total limit, but without a blockquote it's 300? Or is there something more complex than that.

(FYI: Love the idea of block quotes being treated separately/differently-- I think this will encourage conversation)

@jsonbecker Exactly, it's as simple as the limit doubling when there's a block quote. You can try this on the web and see the counter change as you type. The "Embed" links are in the web timeline too to make copying a post easier, or you can use Markdown quotes.

@manton Excellent! so happy to see this. I often like to just share links with quoted excerpts, hard to do with the previous limit. This is perfect.

@Denny Thanks!

@manton I couldn’t be happier about this, especially the now obvious-seeming exception made for quotes! Thank you so much for listening to my, @Denny’s and other people’s feedback from a few months back! :D

@manton Oh very nice! It's great to see this part of Micro.blog take on its own shape, with no obvious connotation regarding other platforms.

@manton I assume this only applies to micro-posts without title?

@renevanbelzen Correct. No change for posts with a title.

@manton nicely done sir … nicely done.

@manton does the 600 character limit only apply when using Micro.Blogs’s blockquote (per the video you posted) or will it also work for posts that use markdown quoting (“>” character) ?

@manton Doubling the count for posts that include a blockquote is a really smart move – I really admire the diligent and thoughtful design choices you continue to make with Micro.blog, it’s refreshing!

@paulrobertlloyd Thanks!

@brandontreb It applies for Markdown quotes too. There is nothing really special about the "Embed" feature except that it fills everything in for a nice preview of the linked post. The counting is identical for Markdown or HTML.

@manton I hit reply and then noticed that @paulrobertlloyd said exactly what I was about to write. Thank you, as ever, for your thoughtful and deliberate design choices!

@fgtech @RianVDM Thanks y'all!

@manton Nicely implemented. Love the extra leeway for quote blogs. This might make link-blogging easier.

Thank you, @manton, for this improvement.

I admire your willingness to not try to copy Twitter, where so many others make that mistake. It's really refreshing to see a developer promoting the possibility of more constructive exchanges on the web, as you do, through thoughtful design choices.

@manton oh that is super cool. Tried it with a bookmark where I had a stored text highlight. Super handy. I like the tweaked user interface for posting too.

@manton @brandontreb I didn't know that we could copy & paste the "embed" from the web to the MB macOS client and have a window preview. Super handy.

@manton This is great! I’d love if this could also address all the blank characters Squarespace adds to its RSS feeds counting toward the character count. I’m still getting photos dropped from the feed with short captions.

@kbrice Unfortunately this won't fix that. I still want to solve that... I made one change but I don't think it was enough.

@manton this is great! I often trim my quotes to make them fit inside of a 280 char post so that I can still add a bit of my own words. This will make for much more interesting posts. Thanks!

@manton I missed this when it rolled out, but it’s a really nice ‘little’ upgrade. Loving how Micro.blog is incrementally and humanely improving.