@manton I added the feed for my Blot blog to the feeds section and made a test post. But it has not shown up in my M.B timeline yet. It's been nearly 1.5 hours. Anything that I'm missing?

@crossingthethreshold @pratik

should I be adding you both here?

@pratik Ah, glad you figured it out!

@pratik For which post did this happen? Or is the post now hidden/gone?

@pratik OK cool. So if we're talking about how Micro.blog displays this post in the timeline (which I assume) then this is simply how Micro.blog works, per the timeline display rules.

Or are you talking about how Micro.blog displays the post somewhere else?

@pratik Oh that would be a good idea; like, related webmentions going to a single source... maybe it's already been done or somebody is working on it. Definitely worth considering in an effort to make it easier for people to see longer posts and capture the conversations around them.

@pratik @blot If you have short posts you want to include in the timeline, just leave the title blank. But for those longer posts, it links the title instead of showing a truncated version of the text. Too many truncated posts would start to look messy in the timeline, in my opinion.

@pratik Thanks. JSON Feed has a "summary" field that could in theory be used for this, but it's not widely supported and M.b ignores it. There is already a lot of confusion around external feeds so I'm hesitant to add any more complexity for them.

@pratik I have a workaround for getting the replies to "re-link to the same posts with a better description" on micro.blog as webmentions. Just make that relink short post as a reply to the original title only post on micro.blog. So replies to the short posts are in a way replies to the longer post as the short post itself is a reply :)

I use this at rare occasions, but I also use blot for my microposts.

@pratik done

@pratik i just add links - it is the brains trust of micro blog that are the real heroes … but will continue to add as I find more.