jack
jack
One side effect of using titles on “micro” posts jack.baty.net
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Ron
Ron

@jack You might consider a compromise that might work. I agree that getting the full 280 into the timeline is a good idea. So maybe post the text with no strictly stated title. But format the beginning text in bold, which will then stand out in reading as a title!

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jack
jack

@Ron clever idea! Although it doesn't help as much in places like archive pages and search results.

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Bruce
Bruce

@jack I tend to click through, especially if the title is interesting. 🙂

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Ron
Ron

@jack But we don't have text search on Micro.blog anyway, do we? I say write for the impact you want NOW. Archiving & search is for creating & viewing moldy old history, the present being more important. Though I certainly enjoyed your old blogs that you dug up!

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tgray
tgray

@jack I decided to keep my (very micro) micro blog as a separate section from the main blog. More of a micro blog archive than anything I expect people to read. Real posts get titles, micro ones don’t.

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Bruce
Bruce

@Ron We don't have search on m.b, but Google is always scraping. 😁

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Ron
Ron

@Bruce Yes, I suppose so, though I've never had occasion to look for a micro.blog posting that way.

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jack
jack

@tgray that's pretty much how i've been handing it but now i'm thinking if treating them the same. or rather, treating them the same on the blog i'm using mostly for short posts.

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Bruce
Bruce

@Ron I didn't either. You post prompted me to check if the Great Eye was staring down upon us.

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jack
jack

@Ron No search on micro.blog, true. I was thinking more about their display on my blog itself. good point about focusing on the now.

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tgray
tgray

@jack I see you run Hugo as well for your blog. Is your micro blog stuff self hosted? If so, what do you use to handle it?

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jack
jack

@tgray That's part of the problem. I'd prefer all my posts to live on my main (Hugo) blog but i'm not sure it'll ever be as easy posting short posts and photos with Hugo as it is with Wordpress. I get lazy so I bounce between them regularly.

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johnjohnston
johnjohnston

@jack could you have titles on your sites but remove then from the RSS that links to micro.blog. I think that’s what I do (been a while). This might mess up longer post but I hope to sort that out soon by having status posts titleless in RSS and standard ones with titles. This is in WordPress. Don’t know if possible in Hugo?

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jack
jack

@johnjohnston I'd forgotten about that option. I may do that. On the other hand, the whole dilemma for me was that I didn't want to work too hard just to manipulate how a post is displayed in micro.blog. I may see how much actual work is involved though, thanks!

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johnjohnston
johnjohnston

@jack I wonder if doing ‘work’ is more attractive to folk like myself that don’t work with code but like simple tinkering as a hobby. gist.github.com/troutcolo... Removes titles from posts with micro cat in RSS. I think I just need to change the feed I send to micro.blog to include other posts and it will be good...

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jack
jack

@johnjohnston Oh I love tinkering! :). Maybe I should replace "work" with "worry about". It's more a philosophical decision to not worry about it. Thanks so much for the gist. That will come in handy if I end up going with titleless-RSS.

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